16-Factor Personality Profile

Your result for Human Warmth is “High”: the average of your answers to the items on this factor fell in the fourth of five bands. This describes a clear and recurring presence of interest in people, building familiarity, showing appreciation, and taking the first step toward contact, which may help you establish comfortable relationships with relative speed.

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Your answers on the Reasoning Ability factor fall in the High level. This level describes a style in which you tend to see the structure of a problem and its relationships before its details, and to restate the problem and compare more than one explanation before you settle.

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Your result on Emotional Stability sits at the Moderate level. This means your answers on the factor items were spread between statements describing a quick return to calm after upsetting events and statements describing an effect that lingers longer. The questionnaire cannot tell whether this spread reflects a real difference between your situations or a moderate response in all of them, and only your own observation can settle that.

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Your result on the Dominance and Assertiveness factor is moderate. This describes your answers in this questionnaire and is not a verdict on your whole personality, and the tool has not yet been calibrated, so there is no comparison here with other people. A moderate average may mean your answers were moderate on every item, or that they varied between high items and low ones, and the report cannot tell the two apart; so read what follows as a hypothesis to test on your own situations, not as a confirmed description: that your tendency to take direction or leave it shifts with the situation.

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Your answers point to a low level of Liveliness and Spontaneity, the second band of five. The tool has not yet been calibrated on a reference sample, so there is no comparison between you and anyone else and no percentile; the level describes your answers in this questionnaire and is not a verdict on your whole personality. It means your answers leaned toward seriousness, deliberateness, and measured expression more than toward lightness and free-flowing spontaneity; your humor and enthusiasm may show once you feel at ease with the place and the people, so you may seem more reserved at first meetings than you are among those you know.

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Your answers point to a high level of Rule Adherence. It seems that your word and your promises hold firm for you, that the established procedure stays your reference unless a sound reason to revisit it appears, that safety and rights rules do not depend for you on someone watching, and that you would rather send a disagreement with a rule through its proper route than around it.

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Your result on the Social Boldness factor falls in the Moderate level. In practice, your answers do not lean clearly toward hesitation and reserve when you enter social situations, nor toward quick initiative. You may step forward in one setting and hold back in another, and that usually depends on how clear your role is, how well you know the people present, how senior they are, and what the situation could cost you.

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Your result on the Emotional Sensitivity factor falls in the High band: in many situations you pick up tone, mood, human impact, and aesthetic quality before they are put into words, and that information enters your grasp of the situation and your decisions. It is usually hard for you to ignore a wounding remark or a decision that leaves a mark on a person, and you may be affected by the surrounding atmosphere more than your face shows.

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Your answers in this questionnaire point to a low level on the Vigilance and Caution factor, and this describes your answers and does not compare you with other people, because the tool has not yet been calibrated on a sample. You usually begin with good faith and give people a chance before judging them, yet you are ready to pick up clear signals: you may notice when words do not add up or an action contradicts a promise, and you tend to postpone acting on it.

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Your result on the Imaginative Absorption factor is moderate, and it describes your answers in this questionnaire and does not compare you with other people, because the tool has not yet been calibrated on a sample. The average of your answers to the statements about being drawn to abstract ideas, mental models, and theoretical possibilities fell in the middle of the range, so neither the pull toward that world nor the distance from it clearly dominates. Its presence may also vary from one situation to another: a concept holds you in one subject and wearies you in another, and this is not a verdict on your whole personality.

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Your result on the Privacy and Reserve factor is moderate: the average of your answers on the items of this factor fell in the third, middle band of five. The tool has not yet been calibrated on a sample, so the report does not compare you with anyone and describes only what your answers say. Balance here means that your tendency to disclose or to hold back is settled by the person, the situation, and your state at the moment, so it does not stay fixed on candor or on reserve. This describes your answers and is not a verdict on your whole personality.

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Your result on the Anxiety and Guilt-Proneness factor falls in the low level. This means your answers describe someone who feels concerned when they err or are criticized, but whose concern is short and in proportion to the size of the event, so it does not grow into a whirl of questions or lasting self-blame. This describes your answers in this questionnaire and is not a verdict on your whole personality.

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Your result on the Openness to Change factor is high: the average of your answers on the items of this factor fell in the fourth of five bands. The tool has not yet been calibrated on a sample, so the report does not compare you with anyone and describes only what your answers say. In this questionnaire you generally welcome new ideas and methods, and you lean toward trying alternatives and revising your assumptions when something appears that calls for it, even before reality forces the change upon you. This describes your answers and is not a verdict on your whole personality or on the quality of your decisions.

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Your result on the Self-Reliance factor is low. You lean toward consultation and shared work, and you take comfort in someone thinking alongside you, yet you may also form a first position on your own, start some tasks, and settle simple matters by yourself. Take the result as a picture of how you answered here, and not as a title for your whole personality.

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Your result on the Perfectionism and Self-Discipline factor is high, meaning that on most items of the factor your answers leaned toward a system more than toward freedom. This describes your answers in this questionnaire and is not a verdict on your whole personality, and the section titled “Detailed interpretation of your result” works through what it means in your life.

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Your result on the Internal Tension factor is low. This means you lean toward a relative calm, and that strain and urgency do not accompany you on most of your days, though they do appear when a real deadline nears or a particular task grows in importance, and then ease once their cause has passed. This describes your answers in this questionnaire and is not a verdict on your whole personality.

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Your result on Global Extraversion is moderate, meaning the middle band of five. This does not make you “neither one nor the other”; it means that your lean shifts with the situation, the company, and your state of energy: you may enjoy gatherings and then need quiet afterward, or love solitude and then miss people.

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Your result falls in the Low level on the Global Anxiety factor. This means that the average of your answers on the statements describing the four factors it combines leaned toward the lower end of the scale without reaching it: calm prevails in most situations, and preoccupation with what might go wrong appears when a matter is genuinely important and then passes. How that average is spread across the four factors is not shown by the combined level, and the level of each appears on your results page. This describes your answers in this questionnaire. It is not a comparison with other people and not a verdict on your personality as a whole.

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Your result on the global factor Tough-Mindedness / Affective Openness falls in the second of five bands, which means it leans toward the affectively open pole without reaching its far end. A lower score on this factor means a stronger lean toward human meaning, feeling, and imagination, and a higher score means a stronger lean toward practical realism, explicit criteria, and direct decisions. Your answers lean toward the first pole while leaving room for the second. Tough-mindedness here describes a style of approaching situations, not a judgment about the quality of thinking.

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Your result falls at the Moderate level of the Global Independence factor, which means your answers did not lean clearly toward either end: neither toward going along with the group, trusting it, and preferring the familiar, nor toward forming a personal view, disagreeing openly, and starting change. This may reflect flexibility that shifts with the situation, or opposing tendencies whose average lands in the middle band.

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Your result on the Global Self-Control factor is High. In plain terms, your answers taken together leaned clearly toward organization, adherence to rules and standards, and closing tasks, and toward governing behavior rather than following the moment, with a lighter presence of unplanned spontaneity and absorption in imagination.

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