Where's the H? Relations between BFI-2 and HEXACO-60 scales

We examined the relations between the scales of the Next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2) and the 60-item version of the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-60) using self-reports from a Canadian undergraduate sample (N = 700). Results showed generally close correspondences between conceptually similar HEXACO-60 and BFI-2 scales, although HEXACO-60 Emotionality was somewhat less well accounted for by the BFI-2 scales than BFI-2 Neuroticism was accounted for by HEXACO-60 scales. However, the HEXACO-60 Honesty-Humility scale was largely unaccounted for by the BFI-2 scales. Results suggest that the BFI-2, despite its psychometric soundness, would not be suitable for use when studying individual difference variables or personality phenomena in which Honesty-Humility might be implicated.