HEXACO-JP API

What You Can Do with HEXACO-JP API

List of Approximately 90 Tendencies

The data returned by the API includes HEXACO values plus the following tendencies.

• Non-cognitive abilities
  • Potential for high IQ/EQ, capable of critical thinking, common in hardworking people, high motivation, tends to act proactively, tends to have confidence, tends to have good relationships with others, tends to feel happy, tends to feel lucky, high self-efficacy, strong positive emotions, has resilience
  • Stress coping (seeking problem resolution, seeking comfort and empathy from others, seeking distraction, reframing situations more positively, accepting situations, avoiding problems altogether, not acknowledging problems/hiding emotions, wishing for magical rescue, withdrawing, crying/throwing things/self-blame, relying on alcohol or nicotine, participating in religious activities)
  • Humble and calm toward risks, unlikely to regret even after failure, challenges despite risks, prone to bias
  • Dark tendencies (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism), engages in social loafing, susceptible to conformity pressure
• Cognition & Values
  • Seeks meaning in life and transcendent matters, tends to blame environment for negative things
  • Schwartz Value Theory (managing people and resources while seeking money, seeking socially recognized success, seeking pleasure, seeking stimulating experiences, seeking independence of thought and action, seeking equality/social justice/environmental protection, seeking prosperity and happiness of surrounding people, controlling one’s impulses to meet others’ expectations, preserving traditions, seeking safety and security for self/family/nation)
  • Politics: prefers left-wing parties/right-wing parties, interested in environmental protection, right-wing authoritarianism (tends to attack those who deviate from norms), social dominance orientation (prone to discrimination and prejudice)
  • Compatible people: xNxx-xL (high openness and honesty-humility), xNxx-xD (high openness, low honesty-humility), xSxx-xL (low openness, high honesty-humility), xSxx-xD (low openness and honesty-humility)
• Academic Performance & Work
  • Tends to achieve high academic performance, good at online learning, can learn deeply and adapt, sometimes engages in superficial learning or perspectives/responses
  • Tends to have higher income, tends to have high job performance, tends to have successful career, becomes a good team member, tends to voluntarily leave jobs, gets tired easily, prone to burnout
  • Tends to produce results in remote work, tends to have high work engagement, has sense of belonging and attachment to organization, actively performs work outside job scope
  • Voluntarily helps colleagues and other individuals, voluntarily acts for the benefit of the entire organization, aims to improve and transform organizational and business processes, works across group and job boundaries, good at interpersonal tasks, coaching tends to be effective
  • Good at new business and entrepreneurship, tends to become a good supervisor, transformational leadership, laissez-faire leadership, destructive leadership
  • Likes visionary leaders, likes friendly leaders, likes realistic leaders

All Test Results Include Peer-Reviewed Papers

• Other companies’ personality and aptitude tests are developed in-house and lack scientific foundation. Having numerical data does not automatically make them objective.
• HEXACO-JP has been developed through an academic process, with correlation analysis with other psychological scales and validity/reliability analysis conducted.
• Additionally, peer-reviewed papers are attached regarding various soft skills that are likely to correlate with test results. While we haven’t conducted direct correlation analysis with our HEXACO-JP, similar analyses have been performed, making them sufficiently useful for reference.
• When evaluating and judging an individual, having scientific foundation is extremely important for accountability.

Personality and Aptitude Testing Based on HEXACO

• In personality psychology, a psychological scale called HEXACO has been gaining attention since the 2000s. While the Big Five, which other companies reference when developing their own tests, expresses personality through 5 factors, HEXACO uses 6 factors, enabling more detailed analysis. Details here.
• Particularly, Honesty-Humility, one of the 6 factors of HEXACO, is related to ethics, and low scores can identify the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy). Details here.
• The Dark Triad has been actively researched in recent years, and it has been found to be related to unethical behaviors such as not only bullying and academic misconduct, but also harassment, workplace fraud, criminal behavior, and sexual harassment. International comparisons show that Japanese people tend to score higher on Machiavellianism and Psychopathy.

Actual Usage Flow

① Purchase response quota in advance and issue API key

Log in to the assessment site and select “Business Use” from the menu.

② Embed in your company’s web/app service

Implement while checking the documentation. Please contact us if you have any questions.

③ Have users answer and obtain personality data

Output numerical results and presence or absence of traits in a list format. You can analyze freely.

Below, operation instructions after logging into the diagnostic site

Bonus “Soft Skills Handbook”

Further detailed explanation of test results! Receive the “Soft Skills Handbook” as a gift (partial excerpt below). You can view it from the API key settings screen after creating a new project (+ button) from the project list screen and purchasing API response credits.

Invitation Feature “Sunblaze Test”

For those who don’t have their own service or are concerned about suddenly embedding it into their own service, there is a feature that allows you to invite employees or students via email from the admin panel to obtain personality assessment responses. Like the API feature, this can be used from “Business Use“. Details are below.