Overview

EnneaQ is a personality assessment tool that combines the wisdom of the Enneagram with the scientific rigor of the Five-Factor Model (FFM), often represented by the acronym OCEAN. At the heart of the Enneagram are nine distinct personality types, each offering a unique perspective on the world, shaped by its own set of motivations, fears, and interpersonal styles. While widely used for personal and spiritual development, offering profound insights into human behavior, it's important to note that research on the Enneagram's validity is ongoing1. The FFM, also known as the Big Five (OCEAN), is a well-established model of personality with strong scientific support and cross-cultural validity2. EnneaQ integrates these two models to provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of your personality.

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Scenario Based Methodoloy

EnneaQ takes a unique approach to personality assessment. Instead of relying on traditional multiple-choice questions, we use realistic scenarios to help you discover your likely Enneagram type and gain deeper insights into your OCEAN traits. This offers several key advantages:

  • Increased realism and engagement: Scenarios provide a more engaging assessment experience.3 By presenting you with relatable situations, you can visualize yourself in those contexts and respond more authentically. This leads to more accurate and insightful results compared to abstract multiple-choice questions.
  • Reduced social desirability bias: Multiple-choice questions can be susceptible to social desirability bias, where you might select answers you perceive as more favorable or socially acceptable. Scenarios, on the other hand, can be designed to elicit more nuanced responses, minimizing the pressure to conform to perceived norms.4
  • Deeper understanding of personality dynamics: Our AI-powered analysis goes beyond simply matching your responses to predefined answers. Instead, it evaluates your response within each scenario, considering the nuances of your responses to reveal the complex interplay between different aspects of your personality. This provides a more holistic and dynamic understanding compared to traditional assessments that rely on isolated multiple-choice questions.
  • Enhanced predictive validity: By simulating real-life situations, scenario-based assessments can better predict how you might behave in various contexts. This can be particularly valuable for personal growth, relationship improvement, or even professional development.56
  • Greater personalization: Scenario-based responses can be analyzed to provide more personalized and tailored feedback. This allows EnneaQ to offer specific recommendations and insights that are relevant to your unique personality and life circumstances.

This scenario-based methodology allows EnneaQ to offer a more engaging, insightful, and personalized assessment experience, leading to a deeper understanding of your personality and potential for growth.

How We Perform the Analysis

EnneaQ uses advanced AI algorithms to analyze your responses to the scenarios, each carefully categorized under Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Leadership Intelligence, or Situational Awareness. Here's how this process works:

  1. OCEAN Trait Scoring: As you respond to each scenario, our AI parses your answers, evaluating the presence of each OCEAN trait (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) and assigning a probability score from 0 to 1. This indicates the strength of each trait reflected in your response.7 Your initial self-reported OCEAN profile (5 Quick Questions) is also factored in, but with less weight, allowing for a dynamic assessment that evolves with your responses.
  2. Enneagram Type and Wing Prediction: Based on the calculated OCEAN scores and the content of your responses, the AI identifies the most likely Enneagram Type and Wing combinations for each scenario. Each combination is assigned a probability score from 0 to 1, reflecting the likelihood of that type and wing being your dominant pattern.
  3. Observations and Insights: While the AI doesn't provide direct advice, it offers insightful observations based on your responses. These observations highlight patterns in your behavior, potential strengths and weaknesses, and areas for personal growth, helping you understand the 'why' behind your actions and choices.
  4. Final Enneagram Score: To ensure accuracy, we normalize the probability scores from each scenario before combining them to determine your likely Enneagram type. This normalization process prevents outliers—scenarios where your responses might strongly favor a particular type—from disproportionately influencing the overall results. This comprehensive approach ensures a balanced and nuanced assessment, considering your personality dynamics across all contexts. Ultimately, EnneaQ presents you with the top 3 most likely Enneagram types and wings based on your overall responses. These results represent probabilities, offering insights into your likely dominant patterns, but they are not a definitive or final typing. We encourage you to explore the observations provided, delve deeper into the nuances of each type, and ultimately make your own informed judgment about your Enneagram type.

Ongoing Exploration: After your initial assessment, you can continue to explore your personality by responding to additional scenarios. Each new scenario provides more data for the AI to analyze, further enhancing the accuracy of your Enneagram type and wing predictions and offering deeper insights into your personality dynamics.

Developing Your Intelligences (Q)

EnneaQ is your guide to developing a strong internal compass. We go beyond simply identifying your Enneagram type and OCEAN traits, providing personalized insights that illuminate your unique biases and potential blind spots. Through AI analysis, we reveal the gaps between your self-perceived traits and how those traits manifest in your actions, fostering a deeper understanding of yourself and highlighting areas for potential growth.

This deeper understanding allows you to consciously orient yourself in any situation, ensuring your decisions are grounded in objectivity, not unconscious assumptions. You gain the ability to accurately assess information, consider diverse viewpoints, and ultimately make choices aligned with your values. This heightened self-awareness enhances your emotional, cultural, and leadership intelligence, paving the way for more fulfilling relationships and greater self-understanding.

Footnotes

  1. Hook, J. N., Hall, T. W., Davis, D. E., Van Tongeren, D. R., & Conner, M. (2021). The Enneagram: A systematic review of the literature and directions for future research. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(4), 865-883. ↩

  2. Widiger, T. A., & Crego, C. (2019). The Five Factor Model of personality structure: An update. World Psychiatry, 18(3), 271-272. ↩

  3. Wiggins, Grant (1990). The case for authentic assessment. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2(2). ↩

  4. Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & Rasinski, K. (2000). The psychology of survey response. Cambridge University Press. ↩

  5. Guion, R. M. (2011). Assessment, measurement, and prediction for personnel decisions. Routledge. ↩

  6. Christian, M. S., Edwards, B. D., & Bradley, J. C. (2010). Situational judgment tests: Constructs assessed and a meta-analysis of their criterion-related validities Personnel Psychology, 63(1), 83-117. ↩

  7. Zhong, Q., Ding, L., Liu, J., Du, B., & Tao, D. (2023). Sentiment analysis in the era of large language models: A reality check. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10198. ↩