Personal Integrity

Personal integrity is the tendency to be honest, sincere, and fair in how you deal with other people, even when bending the rules would pay off. This test measures it through two closely related facets: Sincerity, your inclination to present yourself genuinely rather than flatter or manipulate, and Fairness, your unwillingness to cheat, exploit, or take what is not yours. Together these describe how trustworthy and principled your interpersonal conduct tends to be.

The 12 items take about 4 minutes. You rate how much you agree with each statement as a description of yourself, and your results are placed against population norms, so you see where your self-reported integrity stands relative to other adults rather than a raw number in isolation. There are no right or wrong answers; the most useful results come from answering honestly rather than as you think you should.

The two facets draw on the Honesty-Humility factor of the HEXACO model of personality, the sixth dimension that distinguishes HEXACO from the Big Five. Each facet is a continuous spectrum, not a category, and the report describes both ends without treating either as a verdict on your character. Most people land near the middle; distinctively high or low scores are what give a profile its shape.

Because this is a brief self-report measure, it captures how you see your own honesty and fairness, which is informative but not the same as an observed record of behavior. People who care how they appear can answer in a flattering direction, and the report is honest about that limit. Read your result as a structured reflection on your interpersonal values rather than a certified measure of conduct.

Honesty-Humility emerged from lexical studies of personality across many languages, in which a factor capturing sincerity, fairness, modesty, and low entitlement recovered consistently once the analysis was extended beyond English. The HEXACO model isolates this content as a separate dimension, where the Big Five spreads it thinly across Agreeableness and the low ends of other traits. Its two interpersonal facets, Sincerity and Fairness, are the core of what people usually mean by everyday integrity.

The practical payoff of measuring this content is well documented. Honesty-Humility and the integrity it captures predict outcomes the Big Five accounts for only weakly, including counterproductive and dishonest workplace behavior and exploitative tendencies. A large meta-analysis of integrity tests by Ones, Viswesvaran, and Schmidt found meaningful validity for predicting job performance and counterproductive behaviors. Your scores here are normed against adult data, and the detailed report is generated from your scored profile by strict scoring rules. This is an educational self-assessment, not a clinical or employment-screening instrument, and it does not diagnose anything or certify your honesty.