A friend suggested i take this test. She told me it was really
accurate in it's descriptions it puts you in. So i decided to give it
a whirl. After taking it i liked what i saw and decided to add it
to my site.
Through a series of questions your scores get added up into different
categories.
My scores are as followed: Type1: 5; The Reformer Type2: 3; The Helper Type3: 3; The Achiever Type4: 5; The Individualist Type5: 6; The Investigator Type6: 6; The Loyalist Type7: 2; Type Seven Type8: 0; The Challenger Type9: 6; The Peacemaker
Seems how Types 5,6, and 9 are tied, i decided to post them all. If
you want to take the test also, just click on any one of the pictures.
Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click onto "[Free Short Test]"
The Intense, Cerebral Type:
Perceptive, Innovative, Secretive, and Isolated
(The Schizoid Avoidant, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders)
Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable Basic Desire: To be capable and competent Enneagram Five with a Four-Wing: "The Iconoclast" Enneagram Five with a Six-Wing: "The Problem Solver"
Profile Summary for the Enneagram Type Five
Healthy: Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness
and insight. Most mentally alert, curious, searching intelligence:
nothing escapes their notice. Foresight and prediction. Able to
concentrate: become engrossed in what has caught their attention. /
Attain skillful mastery of whatever interests them. Excited by
knowledge: often become expert in some field. Innovative and
inventive, producing extremely valuable, original works. Highly
independent, idiosyncratic, and whimsical.
At Their Best:
Become visionaries, broadly comprehending the world while penetrating
it profoundly. Open-minded, take things in whole, in their true
context. Make pioneering discoveries and find entirely new ways of
doing and perceiving things.
Average: Begin conceptualizing and fine-tuning everything
before acting — working things out in their minds: model building,
preparing, practicing, and gathering more resources. Studious,
acquiring technique. Become specialized, and often "intellectual,"
often challenging accepted ways of doing things. / Increasingly
detached as they become involved with complicated ideas or imaginary
worlds. Become preoccupied with their visions and interpretations
rather than reality. Are fascinated by off-beat, esoteric subjects,
even those involving dark and disturbing elements. Detached from the
practical world, a "disembodied mind," although high-strung and
intense. / Begin to take an antagonistic stance toward anything
which would interfere with their inner world and personal vision.
Become provocative and abrasive, with intentionally extreme and
radical views. Cynical and argumentative.
Unhealthy: Become reclusive and isolated from reality,
eccentric and nihilistic. Highly unstable and fearful of aggressions:
they reject and repulse others and all social attachments. / Get
obsessed yet frightened by their threatening ideas, becoming
horrified, delirious, and prey to gross distortions and phobias. /
Seeking oblivion, they may commit suicide or have a psychotic break
with reality. Deranged, explosively self-destructive, with
schizophrenic overtones.
Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the
environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending
the self from threats from the environment.
Addictions: Poor eating and sleeping habits due to minimizing
needs. Neglecting hygiene and nutrition. Lack of physical activity.
Psychotropic drugs for mental stimulation and escape, narcotics for
anxiety.
The Committed, Security-Oriented Type:
Engaging, Responsible, Anxious, and Suspicious
(The Passive-Aggressive and Paranoid Personality Disorders)
Basic Fear: Of being without support and guidance Basic Desire: To have security and support Enneagram Six with a Five-Wing: "The Defender" Enneagram Six with a Seven-Wing: "The Buddy"
Profile Summary for the Enneagram Type Six
Healthy: Able to elicit strong emotional responses from others:
very appealing, endearing, lovable, affectionate. Trust important:
bonding with others, forming permanent relationships and alliances.
/ Dedicated to individuals and movements in which they deeply
believe. Community builders: responsible, reliable, trustworthy.
Hard-working and persevering, sacrificing for others, they create
stability and security in their world, bringing a cooperative spirit.
At Their Best: Become self-affirming, trusting of self and
others, independent yet symbiotically interdependent and cooperative
as an equal. Belief in self leads to true courage, positive thinking,
leadership, and rich self-expression.
Average: Start investing their time and energy into whatever
they believe will be safe and stable. Organizing and structuring,
they look to alliances and authorities for security and continuity.
Constantly vigilant, anticipating problems. / To resist having more
demands made on them, they react against others passive-aggressively.
Become evasive, indecisive, cautious, procrastinating, and ambivalent.
Are highly reactive, anxious, and negative, giving contradictory,
"mixed signals." Internal confusion makes them react unpredictably.
/ To compensate for insecurities, they become sarcastic and
belligerent, blaming others for their problems, taking a tough
stance toward "outsiders." Highly reactive and defensive, dividing
people into friends and enemies, while looking for threats to their
own security. Authoritarian while fearful of authority, highly
suspicious, yet, conspiratorial, and fear-instilling to silence their
own fears.
Unhealthy: Fearing that they have ruined their security, they
become panicky, volatile, and self-disparaging with acute inferiority
feelings. Seeing themselves as defenseless, they seek out a stronger
authority or belief to resolve all problems. Highly divisive,
disparaging and berating others / Feeling persecuted, that others
are "out to get them," they lash-out and act irrationally, bringing
about what they fear. Fanaticism, violence. / Hysterical, and
seeking to escape punishment, they become self-destructive and
suicidal. Alcoholism, drug overdoses, "skid row," self-abasing
behavior.
Key Motivations: Want to have security, to feel supported by
others, to have certitude and reassurance, to test the attitudes of
others toward them, to fight against anxiety and insecurity.
Addictions: Rigidity in diet causes nutritional imbalances
("I don't like vegetables.") Working excessively. Caffeine and
amphetamines for stamina, but also alcohol and depressants to deaden
anxiety. Higher susceptibility to alcoholism than many types.
The Easygoing, Self-Effacing Type:
Receptive, Reassuring Agreeable, and Complacent
(The Schizoid and Dependent Personality Disorders)
Basic Fear: Of loss and separation Basic Desire: To have inner stability "peace of mind" Enneagram Nine with an Eight-Wing: "The Referee" Enneagram Nine with a One-Wing: "The Dreamer"
Profile Summary for the Enneagram Type Nine
Healthy: Deeply receptive, accepting, unselfconscious,
emotionally stable and serene. Trusting of self and others, at ease
with self and life, innocent and simple. Patient, unpretentious,
good-natured, genuinely nice people. / Optimistic, reassuring,
supportive: have a healing and calming influence — harmonizing
groups, bringing people together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and
communicator.
At Their Best: Become self-possessed, feeling autonomous and
fulfilled: have great equanimity and contentment because they are
present to themselves. Paradoxically, at one with self, and thus able
to form more profound relationships. Intensely alive, fully connected
to self and others.
Average: Fear conflicts, so become self-effacing and
accommodating, idealizing others and "going along" with their wishes,
saying "yes" to things they do not really want to do. Fall into
conventional roles and expectations. Use philosophies and stock
sayings to deflect others./ Active, but disengaged, unreflective,
and inattentive. Do not want to be affected, so become unresponsive
and complacent, walking away from problems, and "sweeping them under
the rug." Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly comforting
fantasies, as they begin to "tune out" reality, becoming oblivious.
Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on
problems: indifference. / Begin to minimize problems, to appease
others and to have "peace at any price." Stubborn, fatalistic, and
resigned, as if nothing could be done to change anything. Into
wishful thinking, and magical solutions. Others frustrated and angry
by their procrastination and unresponsiveness.
Unhealthy: Can be highly repressed, undeveloped, and
ineffectual. Feel incapable of facing problems: become obstinate,
dissociating self from all conflicts. Neglectful and dangerous to
others. / Wanting to block out of awareness anything that could
affect, them, they dissociate so much that they eventually cannot
function: numb, depersonalized. / They finally become severely
disoriented and catatonic, abandoning themselves, turning into
shattered shells. Multiple personalities possible.
Key Motivations: Want to create harmony in their environment,
to avoid conflicts and tension, to preserve things as they are, to
resist whatever would upset or disturb them.
Addictions: Over-eating or under-eating due to lack of
self-awareness and repressed anger. Lack of physical activity.
Depressants and psychotropics, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics to
deaden loneliness and anxiety.
