Defining Honesty: A Qualitative Analysis of the Trait Honesty

Kimberly R. Hayes, Sara J. Couture, Jared Talley, Kyle Brasil, Drew Lindgren, Lauren Stevens, Patrick Beach, Stephen Crowley, Kimberly McAdams

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Abstract

There has been limited research on the trait of honesty in psychology research. The trait of honesty may be related to Big 5 Personality trait of agreeableness. Moreover, there is another personality trait theory that was created in Europe called HEXACO (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness). This theory is based lexical approach and needs to have a more developed measure to test the theory. In order to create a measurement for honesty researchers decided to create a folk theory of honesty by putting out a qualitative survey asking 60 participants to tell a story about a situation where someone is acting purely honest or dishonest, and to give a list of traits that would make up an honest person. The information was coded using qualitative methods and ten themes (Recognizing Applicability, Altruism, Responsibility, Rarity, Rarity, Truthfulness, Property, Motives, Contract and Relationship.) These themes were used to create a model using the methodology Grounded Theory Analysis.

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 27 Feb 2015
Event16th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology -
Duration: 27 Feb 2015 → …

Conference

Conference16th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Period27/02/15 → …

EGS Disciplines

  • Philosophy

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