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Treated dimensionally, your scores are continuous positions on every type. Edit on Special:MyProfile
Your type profile
Every type carries a continuous score. Bars are ordered by your score, so the patterns most active in you sit at the top.
Primary type, 9 · The Peacemaker
| Basic fear | Loss, fragmentation, separation |
|---|---|
| Basic desire | Inner stability, peace of mind, harmony |
| Vice / Passion | Sloth (inattention to own agenda) |
| Virtue | Right Action / Engaged Presence |
| Holy Idea | Holy Love |
Receptive, easy-going, stabilizing. Merges with others to maintain peace; can lose track of own priorities in the process.
Wing analysis
Your 9w8 means your primary type 9 is most strongly colored by the adjacent type 8 · The Challenger (score 63.4), not its other neighbor 1 · The Reformer (score 50.4).
What the 8-wing adds: Powerful, direct, self-reliant. Takes charge, confronts what others avoid, fiercely protects who they consider theirs.
What you carry less of (the 1-wing): Rational, principled, self-disciplined. Carries a strong inner critic and an exacting sense of how things should be.
Tritype, 973
The tritype (Bergin & Fitzpatrick / Chestnut) is the top-scoring type in each center, head, heart, and body, listed with your primary first. It captures a richer profile than the primary alone, since most people have a clear lead in all three centers.
Receptive, easy-going, stabilizing. Merges with others to maintain peace; can lose track of own priorities in the process.
Quick, versatile, future-oriented. Keeps options open, generates possibilities, reframes pain to keep moving.
Driven, image-aware, adaptable. Reads what is admired in a context and becomes the version of self most likely to be admired.
Centers, head / heart / body
The 9 types cluster into three centers, each organized around a root emotional response: the Head types (5, 6, 7) around fear; the Heart types (2, 3, 4) around shame; the Body / Gut types (8, 9, 1) around anger. Your average score across each center tells you which mode of processing the world is doing the most work in you.
| Center | Root affect | Types | Your mean | Strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head (Thinking) | fear | 5, 6, 7 | 71.4 | |
| Heart (Feeling) | shame | 2, 3, 4 | 62.2 | |
| Body / Gut (Instinct) | anger | 8, 9, 1 | 66.8 |
Your dominant center is the Head. The root question your psyche keeps asking is some flavor of "am I going to be safe / supported / oriented?" Energy goes into thinking, planning, model-building, and managing fear. Healthy: clarity, intellectual engagement, prepared courage. Under stress: rumination, withdrawal, paranoia, or counter-phobic acting-out.
Strategy groups
Two cross-cutting groupings reveal patterns that span types. The Hornevian grouping (after Karen Horney) is interpersonal strategy: how you move in relation to other people. The Harmonic grouping (Riso–Hudson) is how you handle conflict and unmet need.
Hornevian
| Assertive (move against) 3, 7, 8 | Expand into the environment; demand what they want; respond to challenge by pushing back. | 72.4 |
|---|---|---|
| Compliant / Dutiful (move toward) 1, 2, 6 | Respond to a sense of duty or "shoulds"; orient toward what authority, group, or principle calls for. | 63.8 |
| Withdrawn (move away) 4, 5, 9 | Respond to overwhelm by retreating inward; defend their inner space and emotional / cognitive territory. | 64.2 |
Harmonic
| Positive Outlook 2, 7, 9 | When something is wrong, reframe it; emphasize what is going well; sometimes at the cost of facing the negative. | 79.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Competency 1, 3, 5 | When something is wrong, set feelings aside and focus on the task; emphasize efficiency, expertise, getting it right. | 62.8 |
| Reactive 4, 6, 8 | When something is wrong, the emotional charge comes out — needs an authentic response from the other person. | 57.7 |
Stress & growth lines
Inner lines on the enneagram diagram connect each type to two others: a stress line (the direction the type tends to move under pressure, often picking up the average-to-unhealthy traits of that other type) and a growth line (the direction it moves in health, picking up the healthy traits of that other type). The classic Riso–Hudson mapping:
Under stress → 6 (The Loyalist)
When pressed, 9 tends to take on the less healthy face of 6, Engaging, committed, vigilant. Scans for threats and inconsistencies; loyal to people and frameworks they have decided to trust.
Watch for: the 6-type vice of Fear / Anxiety showing up in you when stretched.
Your current score on type 6: 68.6. A high score here may mean you carry this stress pattern even at baseline, not only under acute pressure.
In growth → 3 (The Achiever)
In health, 9 integrates the strengths of 3, Driven, image-aware, adaptable. Reads what is admired in a context and becomes the version of self most likely to be admired.
Aspirational: the 3-type virtue of Truthfulness / Authenticity is the gift this line opens.
Your current score on type 3: 73.2. A high score here may mean you already access this growth pattern; a low score may mark a developmental edge worth leaning into.
How the Enneagram maps onto other systems
The Enneagram is not a perfect overlay on the Big Five or MBTI, but empirical work (Wagner 1981 dissertation; Sutton et al. 2018 meta-analysis in Personality & Individual Differences) finds reasonably consistent correlations. Rough mappings:
| Type | Big Five (OCEAN) tendency | MBTI affinities |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · The Reformer | High Conscientiousness; lower Openness; somewhat lower Agreeableness when critical edge dominates. | ISTJ, ESTJ, INTJ |
| 2 · The Helper | High Agreeableness; high Extraversion; moderate Neuroticism. | ESFJ, ENFJ, ISFJ |
| 3 · The Achiever | High Extraversion; high Conscientiousness; lower Agreeableness when image-driven. | ESTJ, ENTJ, ENFJ |
| 4 · The Individualist | High Neuroticism; high Openness; introverted lean. | INFP, ISFP, INFJ |
| 5 · The Investigator | High Openness; very low Extraversion; lower Agreeableness. | INTP, INTJ, ISTP |
| 6 · The Loyalist | High Neuroticism; high Conscientiousness; variable Extraversion. | ISFJ, ISTJ, ESFJ |
| 7 · The Enthusiast | High Extraversion; high Openness; lower Conscientiousness; low Neuroticism. | ENTP, ENFP, ESFP |
| 8 · The Challenger | Low Agreeableness; high Extraversion; high Conscientiousness; low Neuroticism. | ENTJ, ESTP, ESTJ |
| 9 · The Peacemaker | High Agreeableness; low Neuroticism; introverted lean; moderate-low Conscientiousness. | ISFP, INFP, ISFJ |
If you have OCEAN scores and / or an MBTI position on this profile, compare them to your primary type's row above for an informal triangulation. Misalignment can mean either (a) the Enneagram primary is actually a secondary or stress-line pattern, or (b) the cross-system mappings, which are rough averages, do not capture your individual profile well.
About the Enneagram
The modern Enneagram of Personality was developed by Oscar Ichazo at the Arica school in Chile (1960s–1970s), drawing on Gurdjieff-derived diagrammatic ideas and Christian-monastic and Sufi sources. It was given a psychological elaboration by the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo at Esalen (early 1970s) and brought into the English-speaking mainstream by Don Riso (1987), Helen Palmer (1988), Riso & Hudson (1996, 1999), and Beatrice Chestnut (2013). The diagram itself, a 9-pointed figure with inner lines connecting 1-4-2-8-5-7-1 and 3-6-9-3, is older, but the personality typology mapped onto it is 20th-century.
Scientific status. Standardized instruments (Wagner WEPSS, Riso–Hudson RHETI) show acceptable test-retest reliability and partial construct validity (Wagner 1981; Newgent et al. 2004; Sutton et al. 2018 meta-analysis). Critics note that (a) the 9 types are based on tradition and clinical observation rather than empirical factor analysis, (b) inter-rater reliability of typing varies, and (c) the wing / line / instinct elaborations are largely untested. The Big Five remains the better-validated trait framework. The dimensional treatment used here (continuous scores on every type, no forced primary category) is a partial answer to (a) and (b).
Recommended literature: Riso & Hudson 1999, The Wisdom of the Enneagram; Naranjo 1990, Ennea-type Structures; Palmer 1988, The Enneagram; Chestnut 2013, The Complete Enneagram (esp. for instinctual subtypes); Maitri 2000, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram; for the empirical view, Sutton 2007 and Sutton et al. 2018.
The items used on this wiki are content-validated screening statements grounded in the canonical Riso–Hudson type descriptions. They are not a standardized test, and the standard caveats apply: any single instrument is one data point, types capture central tendencies rather than people, and the most useful work happens not at "what type am I" but at "what does this pattern do in me, and how does it move under stress and growth."