The relationship between HEXACO personality dimensions and type D personality

The present study was aimed to consider the relationship between type D personality and HEXACO personality dimensions. In a correlational study, 242 students from Islamic Azad University of Tabriz were selected through ratio cluster sampling as the statistical sample. Then the participants filled out HEXACO-Personality-Inventory and Type D Personality Scale. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Findings showed that there was positive correlation between emotionality dimension with type D and negative affectivity, as well as there was negative correlation between Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to experience with them.Extraversion had negative correlation with type D and its constituents (social inhibition and negative affectivity) too. Multiple regression analysis showed that HEXACO personality dimensions could predict 23.7% of variance of type D (R^2=0.237).At all, it was concluded that there are correlations between type D and HEXACO personality dimensions; it seems that there are overlaps between them in respect of their nature.