Why Six Factors, Why It Matters

The commenters have provided a wide range of concerns and criticisms as well as suggestions and new insights in response to our target article. We begin our reply by discussing commentaries that offered elaborations and further observations on some of the points made in the target article. We then address several topics raised in multiple commentaries, including (1) the meaning and importance of the cross-language replicated six-factor solution, (2) lexical versus questionnaire variable sets in studying the structure of personality traits, (3) a comparison of broad dimensions versus narrow traits of personality, (4) the construct and measurement of Honesty-Humility, (5) the differentiation of HEXACO Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and (6) the Honesty-Humility/Emotionality/Agreeableness factor space. We also address various other commentaries whose points were not classified into any of the above categories. We conclude that identifying the major personality dimensions is an important goal and that the HEXACO model best represents those dimensions. (C) 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology