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The three most popular personality frameworks in psychology, plus our exclusive new framework.
The gold standard in academic psychology. Measures your levels of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
Explores nine personality types based on core motivations and fears. Popular for personal development and self-understanding.
Inspired by MBTI, categorizes personalities across four dimensions: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving.
Our exclusive framework. Categorizes you into one of our 16 unique personality types based on statistical analysis.
Our exclusive Personality Cluster framework identifies you as one of these 16 unique types:
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A deep dive into the most popular personality frameworks — what they measure, where they came from, and which works best.
The top three most globally-recognized general personality frameworks are:
The MBTI is an extremely popular personality test that classifies people into 16 types, based on how they perceive the world and make decisions. This test divides each person along four binary dichotomies:
What are the personality types in this system? Each trait contributes a letter to a person's type, leading to 16 total types of personalities:
The Big Five is the leading personality framework used by social scientists and psychologists in academia. It scores people on five traits:
To develop the model, researchers compiled many descriptive words, such as "kind" and "anxious". They then used factor analysis to cluster similar words based on correlation (i.e., if you agreed that one word described you, you were likely to agree that another word did too). For example, since "outgoing" people also tended to describe themselves as "talkative", those terms were linked (due to this correlation) under the broader trait of Extraversion.
The Enneagram classifies people into nine interrelated types, each identified by a number and defined by unique motivations and fears. Developed in the 20th century by Bolivian philosopher Ichazo and Chilean psychiatrist Naranjo, the Enneagram is not widely used in academia, but many people report finding it a useful tool for self-reflection. The Enneagram is not to be confused with the "12 personalities test", as it uses nine categories, not twelve.
The nine Enneagram types are:
All three personality frameworks are potentially useful. We collected data from over 550 U.S. participants to evaluate how well each model (the Big Five, Enneagram and Jungian Type / MBTI-style) predicts outcomes in your life, like relationships, career success, and personal well-being. We offer a full personality test for free, which aims to give highly accurate information about your precise personality.
The Big Five outperformed the others in predictive accuracy. An advantage that the Big Five has over MBTI-style tests is that it measures neuroticism. Also, the binary nature of the Jungian Type and of the Enneagram (categorizing people into types) hinders their predictive ability compared to the Big Five's more detailed scoring system (with a continuous score from 1 to 100). You can read the study details here.
Personality significantly shapes your career, relationships, and well-being. For example, our study shows that certain Big Five traits — high Extraversion, high Conscientiousness and low Neuroticism — are linked to higher life satisfaction. Our report explains in detail the impact of the Big Five on our life outcomes list.
