Relationship Between six major dimensions of personality - HEXACO and Attitude toward Psychology among common people

In this study the relationship between six major dimensions of personality –HEXACO- and individual attitude toward psychology had been investigated. Present survey’s population was Tabriz city people who participated in 2013 summer fair of Tabriz city''s mayoralty. Using multistage random sampling، 432 individuals (223 females and 209 males) were selected and were asked to complete HEXACO personality inventory and Attitude toward Psychology Scale. According to results of Pearson’s correlation analysis، there was a positive relation between 6 dimensions with attitude to psychology. Furthermore emotionality was the best predictive of cognitive attitude toward psychology. The results of regression analysis، also revealed the positive relation between attitude toward psychology with emotionality، conscientiousness، openness to experience، and agreeableness.