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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
That was interesting. Seems I am a 1/8/9 followed closely by 7.........does that just make me really screwed up?
LaTigresse,
No, not screwed up at all. The thing about Enneagrams is that it has more than simply "a type". It has what is called "wings", which is a primary personality type, but with a leaning towards one direction or the other and it allows for changes in your level of personal security and development, as well as for the effects of stress and the level of health in your life over time.
Some basic concepts:
Although discovering your Enneagram personality type is the primary object of our tests, they also provide more information about your personality and its dynamics. Here are some suggestions on how to interpret your Enneagram test results.
For most people, it’s clear what your basic type is. If your highest score is much higher (3-4 points or more) than the rest of your scores, this is most likely your basic personality type. You can confirm this by reading about the type either on our site or in Personality Types and The Wisdom of the Enneagram. If the descriptions of this type do not fit you, there are several other possibilities to consider:
* If you have a number of close ties, you could be a Three, a Six, or a Nine.
* If you have a scattered distribution of scores across three to five types so that there doesn’t seem to be any discernible pattern, you could be a Six.
* If you are a woman and your Two score is highest, look at your next two high scores—women are often taught to play the role of the Two whether it is their basic type or not.
... if you are still not sure which is your type, you could put aside the test results and the descriptions and try to observe yourself objectively over a period of a week or two. After a break from the Enneagram material, you could take the same test again, or try a different Riso-Hudson test on this site, or try one of the following ways of identifying your type.
If you’re still not sure about your test scores, try the following steps:
* Identify your three highest scores—one is most probably your basic type.
* Look at the directions of integration (security) and disintegration (stress) related to these three highest scores. If there are high scores in one of these directions, this is an indication that the type related to this direction may be your basic type.
* Look at the wings related to each of your three highest scores. Often, but not always, this will also be a high score.
* Close Calls between all nine types can be explained in a variety of ways: a lot of spiritual/therapeutic/self development work, a lack of self-understanding, a common mistyping of certain types.
* To distinguish between the 9 types, see the Compatibility Combinations. For example, if you can’t decide between Type 2 and 9, click on the 2/9 combination and see which one fits better.
* Ultimately, you are the only one who can decide what your basic type is. When you read the description of your own personality type, you will know it. You may feel chills run down your spine, or an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach. This will be your subconscious telling you that something is hitting home (from Personality Types, p. 42).
An important part of Enneagrams is that there are levels within each type, and relationships between the differing types based on your level of stress and "health": Levels of Development.
More profoundly, the Enneagram is a map of wholeness, a way of recognizing and investigating different dimensions of our inner experience. Quite literally, all nine of the Enneagram types operate within each of us. Some of them are part of our familiar self-image, while others remain more unconscious and obscure. But when we say, for instance, that “I am an Enneagram Seven,” we are really saying that type Seven is dominant in our personalities — not that it is the only type we need concern ourselves with. In other words, it would be more accurate to say that our type is really our basic type and that the other eight types are energies that also manifest themselves in our overall psyches to varying degrees. Understanding this has profound implications for how we use the Enneagram on ourselves and with others.
Indeed, the Enneagram symbol itself suggests how the nine types are not merely “points,” but facets of a dynamic and deeply interrelated wholeness. The nine energies flow from one to another in specific and meaningful ways.
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Beginning in 1973, Don Riso was developing the idea that each of the nine Enneagram types had to have different manifestations depending on the degree of a person’s psychological health at a given time. This was based on the observation that a person might be healthy (or high-functioning), average (or “normal”), or unhealthy (and destructive of self and others) depending on what was motivating him or her at any given time.
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By introducing this vertical axis to the types, the Levels make room in Enneagram theory for some of the most important things that we find in human nature itself: evolution, change, fluidity, compulsion, conflict, contradiction, paradox, continuity, evolution, choice, freedom, and mystery — among many other truly human qualities. A person who knows the Levels of their type can recognize where they are on the continuum of consciousness in a given moment — and how they can move toward a deeper realization of their Being. Ken Wilbur has stated that only with this vertical dimension taken into account does the Enneagram system move toward being a complete psychology.
The concept of "wings" is important as well:
Your (dominant) wing is indicated by the higher score of one of the types on either side of your basic type. For example, if you test as a Two, your wing will be One or Three, whichever has the higher score. The second highest overall score on your Enneagram test is not necessarily that of the wing.
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In all cases, the proportion of the wing to that of the basic type must be taken into consideration. Some people will have a relatively high wing score, in proportion to their basic type. Some will have a moderate, or even a low, proportion of wing to basic type. This consideration is significant for understanding a person's reactions and behavior, particularly if a prediction of his or her performance is being attempted, as in a business setting. Understanding the relative proportion of the wing to the basic type also yields insights into the childhood origins of the person, codependency issues, and potential pathology.
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You may also get a high score in a wing other than the one you are expecting because of current factors in your life. For example, someone who had been typed both by himself and by three trained Enneagram teachers as a Seven with a Six-wing tested as a Seven with an Eight-wing. In this instance, although our Enneagram test correctly diagnosed the subject's basic type, the wing differed from what was expected. A reasonable interpretation is that the subject is in a high-pressure, competitive field where self-confidence and initiative are crucial for success. The subject has been taking more control of his career and has been making a conscious effort to be more assertive. This possibly caused the subject to register more responses for the Eight than for the Six.
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