I’m tired of taking the MBTI…
I always have and still am a huge proponent of personality tests. From a young age, I noticed that astrology never really spoke to me because I could not relate to my sign. However, when I took the personality tests, I found the results almost spot on my personality. I enjoy personality tests because I feel that they are an excellent way to understand your strengths and reflect on what you may need to improve on to grow as a person. In college, we were required to take the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. The MBTI is commonly used in the workplace and in the classroom to assess individuals’ strengths, work style, and positive qualities they can bring to their environment.
After taking both exams twice during my three-year college career, I became more interested in other tests that would reveal more about my personality. I started looking for tests that included both a psychological and situational analysis. I was able to find some creative and thought-provoking tests that broke down different elements of my personality and explained the reasoning behind why and how I act in certain situations. Below, I have listed eight personality tests that are great to take if you are looking for more personality tests besides the MBTI.*
The Big Five Personality Test assesses individuals on five components; extroversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. This test evaluates your personality traits over five broad categories. In recent years, this test has become popular among employers to screen potential candidates.
The creator of Dungeons and Dragons initially inspired the Moral Alignment Test to suggest the general moral and personal attitudes of an individual represented by an alignment. The most common form of this test contains nine categories; lawful good, neutral good, chaotic good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil. Even though it was initially used to characterize fictional characters, many people take the test to learn about their moral alignment.
The Enneagram Test is based around nine different personality traits or numbers that resemble the shape of the geometric figure known as the enneagram. This test has become increasingly popular within pop-culture, especially on Instagram. Many people have made pictographs with essential characteristics to describe a person’s number.
4. High 5 Test
The High 5 Test evaluates and suggests your five biggest strengths. This test is used to help people understand their strengths and well as the strengths of others around them.
This test demonstrates individuals' personalities through their political views. The test results will place you on a chart consisting of four quadrants; Authoritarian Right, Authoritarian Left, Libertarian Left, and Libertarian Right. The Political Compass test is often used as a way for historians to categorize famous politicians and the extremes of their views.
The EPI Test measures pervasiveness, dimensions of personality, Extraversion-Introversion, and Neuroticism-Stability to evaluate the many variables of a personality. When you take the test, it is vital to click on the answer that goes with your initial gut feeling and not overthink your answers.
This assessment evaluates four factors to gauge how you are most likely to behave in your day to day life. Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance are the four factors used in this assessment. Many workplaces have also started to use this personality test as a leadership and teamwork activity.
Lastly, one of my favorite personality tests is the Hogwarts Sorting Hat. As seen in Harry Potter, the sorting hat divides individuals up into the four different houses at Hogwarts; Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin.