An Investigation into the Relationship between Personality Transcendence Dimensions with the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure

The main purpose of the current research was to investigate the relationship between personalitytranscendence dimensions with the HEXACO model of personality structure which is a sixdimensionalmodel of human personality. Using multi stage cluster sampling, 180 students fromPersian Gulf University were selected. The participants were asked to complete PersonalityTranscendence Scale and the HEXACO Personality Inventory. The data were analyzed usingPearson correlation and Multi-variable Regression. The results revealed that personalitytranscendence has positive correlation with five dimensions of the HEXACO model, but negativecorrelation with the emotionality dimension. The findings also indicated that, among the personalitytranscendence dimensions, the best predictors for the HEXACO model of personality structure are:individual moral and social moral for Honesty-Humility; individual order and emotional maturity forExtraversion; individual moral and spiritual experiences for Agreeableness; individual order,individual moral, and religious behaviors for Conscientiousness; individual moral, spiritualexperiences, and spiritual behaviors for Openness to Experience; and emotional maturity andreligious beliefs as the best inverse predictor of Emotionality. Regarding with the positive relationsbetween personality transcendence dimensions with personality factors, personality transcendencecould be considered as a new perspective on personality.

کلیدواژه ها:

Transcendence ، Self ، Personality ، Structure