Comparison Between Personality Assessment Tools, And Features

Personality assessment means testing the human personality constructs. Most of these personality assessment tools offer a similar approach, that is, self-assessment or introspection. There are many personality assessment tools, most of them offer different personality types and a series of questions that make people understand their personality type out of the various diverse personality types in the series of that particularly provided personality test.

Some of the personality assessment tools are discussed below-

1. ENNEAGRAM– The Enneagram is a system that identifies the patterns from which THE different personality types tend to make their decisions and showcase their emotions which are derived from a person’s ego or personality. It consists of nine interrelated personality types that are different from each other. It is a mechanism of the human psyche that offers a way to observe one`s personality type and mechanism. The enneagram is the best source for one to introspect, develop and enhance one’s abilities. Through the empowered capacity for self-observation, it enables to locate a simple shortcut. Each type has its specialized traits and characteristics. Each personality’s characteristics’ names suggest their basic natures, ideologies of working, and features. The nine types are as follows-

1. The Reformers – They are rational thinkers which makes them somewhat the ‘perfectionists’. These people focus on being over- judgemental, inflexible and have critical ideas towards themselves and others which make them wanting perfection in everything they do and what others do.
2. The Helpers – These people are the most caring and supportive towards people around them. Their major forte is that they know what other employees and staff need. They tend to focus on what other people need rather than what they need by themselves.
3. The Achievers – These people feel compelled to be successful in the eyes of their bosses and for a fact even subordinates or other employees and staff. They are good at being a mentor to the employees and prove to be good managers.
4. The Individualists – These people are the most creative, distinctive, and honest. They tend to feel that they are not required.
5. The Thinkers – These are the practical set of learners who have a hunger to work and learn as much as possible and also who like to showcase their learnings and make others learn them as well.
6. The loyalists – These are the most committed and secured people.
7. The Enthusiasts – These are the joyous and fun–loving people who enjoy adventures and new experiences. They fear showing negative vibes and emotions.
8. The Challengers – These people feel compelled to make things happen in the world. They care deeply for staff and the entire organization even though being highly competitive.
9. The Peacemakers – These are the set of people who feel gratified to make the world a calmer and peaceful working environment in the organization.

2. JOHARI WINDOW- The Johari window is a technique that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others. Under this personality assessment test, the users choose various adjectives from a pre-decided list of a set of adjectives that they feel suits their personality and they can the most relate to while describing themselves. These adjectives are then inserted into a two-by-two grid of four rooms. This assessment can be done with two or more people. The subject peers then get the same list, and each picks an equal number of adjectives that describe the subject. rooms. The four rooms are-

1. Open- Adjectives that both the subject and peers select go in this cell (or quadrant) of the grid. 
2. Blind- Adjectives not selected by subjects, but only by their peers go here. 
3. Hidden- Adjectives selected by the subject, but not by any of their peers, go in this quadrant. 
4. Unknown- Adjectives that neither subject nor peers selected go here. They represent subject behaviors or motives that no other person recognizes—either because they do not understand or because of collective ignorance of these traits.

   Johari Adjectives- 

   Able, accepting, adaptable, bold, brave, calm, clearing, cheerful, clever, complex, caring, confident, dependable, dignified, empathetic, energetic, extroverted, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introverted, kind, intelligent, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organized, patient, powerful, organized, proud, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty.

3. The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-introspection model indicating different psychological decisions and personality types. The personality assessment tool attempts at assigning four categories: introversion(I) or extraversion(E) , sensing(S) or intuition(N), thinking(T) or feeling(F), judging(J) or perceiving(P). All these categories combine to form altogether a total of 16 personality types whose traits are spoken by their title names-

1. ISTJ (introversion(I), sensing(S), thinking(T), judging(J) – The inspector

2. ISTP (introversion(I), sensing(S), thinking(T), perceiving(P)) – The crafter

3. ISFJ (introversion(I), sensing(S), thinking(T), judging(J)) – The protector

4. ISFP (introversion(I), sensing(S), feeling(F), perceiving(P)) – The artist

5. INFJ (introversion(I), intuition(N), feeling(F), judging(J)) – The advocate

6. INFP (introversion(I), intuition(N), feeling(F), perceiving(P)) – The mediator

7. INTJ (introversion(I) intuition(N), thinking(T), judging(J)) – The architect

8. INTP (introversion(I), intuition(N), thinking(T) perceiving(P)) – The thinker

9. ESTP (extraversion(E), sensing(S), thinking(T), perceiving(P)) – The persuader

10. ESTJ (extraversion(E), sensing(S), thinking(T), judging(J)) – The director

11. ESFP (extraversion(E), sensing(S), feeling(F), perceiving(P)) – The performer

12. ESFJ (extraversion(E), sensing(S), feeling(F), judging(J)) – The caregiver

13. ENFP (extraversion(E), intuition(N), feeling(F), perceiving(P)) – The champion

14. ENFJ (extraversion(E), intuition(N), feeling(F), judging(J)) – The giver

15. ENTP (extraversion(E), intuition(N), thinking(T), perceiving(P)) – The debater

16. ENTJ (extraversion(E), intuition(N), thinking(T), judging(J)) – The commander

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TOOLS

BASIS	ENNEAGRAM	JOHARI WINDOW	MBTI
Number of Personality types	9	None	16
Nature Description	How the types have emerged over the years	Restricted form of choosing from the provided adjectives	How the types see and perceive the world
Adjectives	Personalities own descriptive adjectives	A set of fixed adjectives	Own adjectives relating to 8 categories
Conclusions	Fears and desires	Known and unknown traits about a person	How the brain tends to make decisions
Trait	Nurture	Adjective descriptive	Nature