Enneagram Test Results

The Enneagram is a personality system which divides the entire human personality into nine behavioral tendencies, this is your score on each... Type 1    Perfectionism |||||||||||| 41% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||| 57% Type 3 Image Focus |||||||||||||||| 66% Type 4 Hypersensitivity |||||| 25% Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||| 56% Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||||||| 73% Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||| 45% Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||||| 70% Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 77%

type	score	type behavior motivation
9	19	I must be peaceful and easy to get along with to get what I want.
6	18	I must be secure and safe to get what I want.
8	17	I must be strong and in control to get what I want.
3	16	I must be impressive and attractive to get what I want.
2	14	I must be helpful and caring to get what I want.
5	14	I must be knowledgable and independent to get what I want.
7	11	I must be energetic and entertaining to get what I want.
1	10	I must be perfect and good to get what I want.
4	6	I must be insecure and/or special to get what I want.

Your conscious personality is Type 9w8	Your unconscious personality is Type 8w9

Your results on all types are calculated into two mean scores. Your Vmean is 2.91 and your Hmean is 5.28. Plotting them on the Enneagram map determines your overall unconscious personality type which is 8w9. (To learn more about the rationale/formula behind this test click here.)

The Enneagram is a system which divides all human behavior into nine personality divisions. Your conscious type (main type) is whichever of those nine behaviors you use most, in your case Type 9w8. Your unconscious type (mean type), Type 8w9, is who you are unconsciously, based on the sum influence of all nine behaviors.

Most Enneagram books and tests focus on main type and use an additional "variant" classification (instead of mean type) to account for the influence of all nine behavior types. This is the same thing as mean typing, except instead of 9 delineations, there are only three. Based on your test results your variant is Sexual. So when reading other Enneagram books or websites refer to the Type 9w8, Sexual variant descriptions.

1,2,3 behaviors are attention/acceptance seeking behaviors (social security). 7,8,9 behaviors are pleasure seeking behaviors (physical security). 4,5,6 are knowledge seeking behaviors (intellectual security). However, type 4 behavior is about seeking the knowledge of how to get attention and type 6 behavior is about seeking the knowledge of how to get pleasure. Now, no test or test taker is perfect but if your score is accurate then your results reflect two things. Who you try to be consciously (Type 9w8) and who you are unconciously (Type 8w9). Each of those reflects an orientation towards acceptance (1-3), pleasure (7-9), or knowledge (4-6). Only Type 5 is directly focused on gaining knowledge, all other types (main or mean) have some level of bias towards prioritizing acceptance or pleasure. At the heart of acceptance seeking behaviors is the belief that if I am attractive in some way, I will be taken care of. This results in superficial development. The problem with a pleasure bias is that it makes you more likely to be selfish and destructive because your short term pleasure is all you are tuned in on. You don't notice or care about the displeasure you might cause others or the long term pain you might be setting yourself up for. Acceptance and pleasure seeking behaviors keep people dependent. Knowledge seeking behaviors are about increasing independence, learning new and better ways to survive in life without conforming or taking advantage of others.

main type / mean type motivations 1 - perfectionism to attract love 2 - helpfulness to attract love 3 - achievement to attract love 4 - insecurity to attract love 5w4 - knowledge to attract freedom 5w6 - knowledge to acquire freedom 6 - security to acquire pleasure 7 - experience/fun to acquire pleasure 8 - control to acquire pleasure 9 - peace to acquire pleasure

main type / mean type examples 5/4 - uses knowledge to show insecurity (brooding writer) 8/2 - uses control to help others (ceo of humanitarian organization) 3/7 - uses achievement to experience more of life (travel magazine journalist) 4/6 - uses insecurity to be more secure (waif fashion model) 1/9 - uses perfectionism to have a more peaceful life (librarian)

Keep in mind, your results are dependent on the accurate truth of your responses. The more you take this test and get the same result, the more likely that is your type. Finally, your scores and type, over the long term, will change as you do.

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