HEXACO personality model: Relationships with emotional psychopathology in a Spanish sample

Abstract

This study examines the relationships between personality dimensions and obsessive-compulsive and depressive psychopathology signs, on the basis of the new 6-dimension HEXACO personality model:Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Participants were 354 individuals from the general population, from which 21 were at risk of depression (r-DEP) and 29 at risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder (r-OCD). Jointly, the 6 personality dimensions explained 42% of the BDI-II score in the r-DEP group, and 37% of the C-BOCI score in the r-OCD group. The two at-risk groups differed from the no-risk participants in all the personality dimensions, with the only exception of Honesty-Humility. The correlations between the self-evaluation and the observer-evaluation were significant and high. To conclude,the relationships between emotional psychopathology and the HEXACO personality dimensions open an interesting new perspective, potentially useful in clinical practice.