Personality Self-Portraits

Conscientious Style:

1. Hard work. Dedicated to work, works very hard, and is capable of intense, single-minded effort.
2. To be conscientious is to be a person of conscience.
3. Everything must be done "right."
4. Likes all tasks and projects to be complete to the final detail, without even minor flaws.
5. Takes seriously all the steps of any project.
6. Likes the appearance of orderliness and tidiness.
7. Approaches the world and other people from a practical, no-nonsense point of view.
8. Does not give in to reckless abandon or wild excess.
9. Saves and collects things, reluctant to discard anything that has, formerly had, or someday may have value for him or her.

Self-Confident Style:

1. Believes in themselves and in their abilities.
2. Expects others to treat them well at all times.
3. Are open about their ambitions and achievements.
4. Are able to take advantage of the strenghts and abilities of other people in order to acheive their goals, and they are shrewd in their dealings with others.
5. Able competitors, they love getting to the top, and they enjoy staying there.
6. Able to visualize themselves as the hero, the star, the best in their role, or the most accomplished in their field.
7. Have a keen awareness of their thoughts and feelings and their overall inner state of being.
8. Accepts compliments, praise, and admiration gratefully and with self-possesion.
9. Confers an emotional vulnerability to the negative feelings and assessments of others, which are deeply felt, although they may be handled with this styles customary grace.

The Devoted Style:

1. Thoroughly dedicated to the relationships in their lives.
2. Prefers the company of one or more people to being alone.
3. Would rather follow than lead. Make good followers.
4. When making decisions, they are happy to seek out others' opinions and to follow their advice.
5. Careful to promote good feelings between themselves and the important people in their lives.
6. Thoughtful of others and good at pleasing them.
7. In response to criticism, they will try hard to change their behavior.

The Dramatic Style:

1. Lives in an emotional world. They are sensation oriented, emotionally demonstrative, and physically affectionate.
2. Experiences life vividly and expansively.
3. Lively and fun.
4. Likes to be seen and noticed.
5. Compliments and praise are like food and water to them.
6. Pays a lot attention to grooming, and they enjoy clothes, style, and fashion.
7. Enjoys their sexuality.

The Viligant Style:

1. Posses a resilient independence.
2. Careful in their dealings with others, preferring to size up a person before entering into a relationship.
3. Good listeners, with an ear for subtlety, tone and multiple levels of communication.
4. Feisty, and does not hesitate to stand up for themselves, especially when they are under attack.
5. Takes criticism very seriously, without becoming intimidated.
6. Places a high premium on fidelity and loyalty.

The Sensitive Style:

1. Prefers to be known to the unknown. Comfortable with, even inspired by, habit, repetition, and routine.
2. Sticks close to the family and/or a few close friends.
3. Cares deeply about what other people think of them.
4. Behaves with deliberate discretion in their dealings with others.
5. Socially they take care to maintain a courteous, self-restrained demeanor.

The Leisurely Style:

1. Believe in their right to enjoy themselves on their own terms in their own time.
2. Agree to play by the rules. They deliver what is expected of them and no more.
3. Cannot be exploited.
4. Relaxed about time.
5. Not overawed by authority. Content with their place in the universe.

The Adventurous Style:

1. Lives by their own internal code of values.
2. Loves the thrill of risk and routinely engage in high-risk activities.
3. Does not worry too much about others, for they expect each human being to be responsible for him or herself.
4. Are silver-tongued, gifted in the gentle art of winning friends and influencing people.
5. Has a strong sex drive and enjoy numerous, varied experiences with different partners.
6. Loves to keep moving.
7. Avoids the 9-to-5 world.
8. Easy and generous with money, believing that money should be spent and that more will turn up somewhere.
9. In their childhood and adolescence, they were usually high-spirited hellraisers and mischief makers.
10. Courageous, physically bold, and tough.
11. Lives in the present.

The Idiosyncratic Style:

1. Turned into and sustained by their own feelings and belief systems, whether or not others accept or understand their particular worldview or approach to life.
2. Self-directed an independent, requiring few close relationships.
3. Oblivious to conventions they create interesting, unusual, often eccentric lifestyles.
4. Open to anything, interested in the occult, the extrasensory, and the supernatural.
5. Drawn to abstract and speculative thinking.
6. Inner-directed and follow their own hearts and minds, keen observers of others, particular sensitive to how other people react to them.

The Solitary Style:

1. Has a small need of companionship and are most comfortable alone.
2. Self-contained and do not require interaction with others in order to enjoy their experience or to get on in life.
3. Even-tempered, calm, dispassionate, unsentimental, and unflappable.
4. Not driven by sexual needs.
5. Unswayed by either praise or criticism and can confidently come to terms with their own behavior.

The Mercurial Style:

1. Must always be deeply involved in a romantic relationship with one person.
2. Experiences a passionate, focused attachment in all their relationships.
3. Shows what they feel.
4. Unhibited, spontaneous, fun-loving, and undaunted by risk.
5. Lively, creative, busy and engaging.
6. Imaginative and curious, willing to experience and experiment with other cultures, roles, and value systems and to follow new paths.

The Self-Sacrificing Style:

1. Gives you the shirts off their backs if you need them.
2. Helpful to others.
3. Always considerate in their dealings with others.
4. Nonjudgemental, tolerant of others' foibles, and never harshly reproving.
5. Neither boastful nor proud, and they're uncomfortable being fussed over.
6. Long-suffering. Prefer to shoulder their own burdens in life.
7. Naive and innocent.

The Aggressive Style:

1. Takes charge. Comfortable with power, authority, and responsibility.
2. Operates best within a traditional power structure.
3. Highly disciplined and imposes rules of order that they expect others in their charge to follow.
4. Highly goal-directed. Takes a practical, pragmatic approach to accomplishing their objectives.
5. Neither squeamish nor fainthearted.
6. Likes action and adventure.

Source: The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do (2009) by John M. Oldham, M. D. and Lois B. Morris.