Religious, honest and humble: Looking for the religious person within the HEXACO model of personality structure

The present study examined the relation of religiousness with personality dimensions of the HEXACO and the Big Five models. From the Big Five, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were associated with higher religiosity, whereas from the HEXACO, Honesty–Humility was the strongest correlate of religiosity, followed by Agreeableness. The HEXACO model showed a moderately large advantage in predicting individual differences in religiousness. This study provided some additional construct validity of the HEXACO Honesty–Humility factor as well as the religious orientation paradigm.

► Personality-religiousness link was studied in a Muslim context.
► The HEXACO model of personality outperformed the Big Five model in relation with religiousness.
► From the HEXACO, Honesty–Humility was the strongest correlate of religiousness.