The HEXACO model of personality is associated with loneliness in a university setting – Retracted

This paper has been retracted.

Chang, K., & Zhao, L. (2024). Retraction: The HEXACO model of personality is associated with loneliness in a university setting. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 52(6), e14330. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.14330

The problem of loneliness among college students has attracted extensive attention from researchers. As a fundamental psychological framework, personality traits are associated with loneliness. Thus, we conducted a survey of 688 college students in Mainland China to examine the relationship between the HEXACO personality traits and loneliness. Regression analysis revealed a negative association between loneliness and the personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, and a positive association between loneliness and the personality traits of honesty–humility, emotionality, and extraversion. This model explained 33.78% of the variance in loneliness. Implications of the findings are discussed.