A completely different approach to the 16 personality types
Personality types are a popular way to describe yourself, but most personality type assessments are very misleading.
While some people are described well by a single personality type, most people fall somewhere between multiple types.
This is why most personality type assessments never feel quite right.
In fact, a valid, reliable assessment should show your similarity to all 16 personality types.
TraitLab Plus calculates your unique typology profile, showing how your unique personality compares to 16 personality types.
Examples of actual type profiles from TraitLab Plus:
Every personality can be described as a unique blend of all 16 types. Rather than just giving you a single type, your TraitLab Plus results include your similarity to all 16 personality types.
First, you'll answer a carefully selected set of questions. Your answers help TraitLab understand your patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving across different situations.
Next, TraitLab compares your answers to millions of responses and builds a highly detailed, unique personality profile.
Then, your profile is compared to thousands of examples of each personality type, and TraitLab estimates your similarity to every type.
In addition your similarity to each type, you'll also learn about your level on the four attitudes and preferences underlying the Jungian typology:
Your TraitLab Plus results include your unique combination of the four preferences behind the 16 personality types.
Lastly, you can learn more about every personality type from TraitLab's extensive Jungian type reports. Each type report helps you understand how your personality compares to each of the 16 personality types.
Comprehensive type reports help you understand your similarities and differences for each of the 16 personality types. Each type report describes the type's pattern of personality traits, interpersonal style, strengths, Enneagram types, and career interests.
TraitLab's unique type reports let you go beyond the same old personality type descriptions found elsewhere. With TraitLab's type reports, you'll understand how your unique personality compares to each type, and understand each type based on TraitLab's exclusive analyses, such as:
Personality Traits
How does each type differ on core personality traits?
How do your personality traits compare to each type?
Interpersonal Style
What is this type's interaction and communication style?
How does style impact their relationships among friends, partners, and colleagues?
Strengths
What are this type's most common character strengths?
How does this combination of strengths influence their relationships and well-being?
Enneagram Typology
Which Enneagram type is most similar to each Jungian type?
Which Enneagram types are most common among this Jungian type?
Career Interests
What is this types career interest pattern?
What kind of careers are a good (and bad) fit for this type?
What kind of problems are engaging (or disengaging) for this type?
TraitLab's 16 Personality Type analysis is an excellent fit for:
Typology Enthusiasts who want to refine their understanding of personality type and connect it to other models
Couples who want to compare their personality types, find common ground, and identify possible sources of tension
Coaches who wish to provide their clients with a more robust personality analysis
Does my personality type change over time?
People grow and change with experience, so their personality type may shift gradually over time, too. With TraitLab Plus, you can reassess yourself monthly to track any changes in your type or other personality aspects.
How does my personality type compare to other assessments?
The 16 personality types is just one approach to understanding your personality. With TraitLab Plus, you'll also learn about yourself through several other approaches, such as:
Personality trait analysis
Enneagram Type analysis
Interpersonal style analysis
Strengths profile
Career interest profile
Career matches
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Frequently asked questions
TraitLab's 16 Personality Types feature analyzes your personality to determine your similarity to each of the 16 personality types from the popular Jungian framework, offering a nuanced understanding of where you fit within this typology.
TraitLab uses your responses to a series of questions to build a detailed personality profile, which is then compared to thousands of examples of each personality type to estimate your similarity to all 16 types.
Most assessments will label you with a single personality type, but TraitLab provides a profile showing your similarity to all 16 types, acknowledging that most individuals exhibit a unique blend of multiple types.
TraitLab also includes analyses of your four underlying attitudes and preferences (e.g., Sensing vs. Intuiting), and detailed type reports covering each type's distinctive personality traits, interpersonal style, strengths, Enneagram type similarities, and career interests.
No, TraitLab's 16 Personality Types Test is not the same as the MBTI. While it uses the same 16-type taxonomy as MBTI, TraitLab bases its predictions on scientifically validated measures of personality traits. It also provides probabilities for all 16 types, rather than assigning a single type, giving a more nuanced and accurate representation of personality.
No, TraitLab’s 16 Personality Types Test is not the same as the "16Personalities" test. While both use the same 16-type framework, the "16Personalities" test is based on its own interpretation of the Jungian theory used by the MBTI. In contrast, TraitLab uses scientifically validated measures to calculate your similarity to all 16 types, offering a more nuanced and research-backed perspective. Unlike "16Personalities," which assigns a single type, TraitLab shows how you align with all 16 types, reflecting the complexity of your personality.
TraitLab stands out by offering probabilities for all 16 types rather than forcing users into a single category. This approach recognizes that most people are blends of multiple types, rather than fitting neatly into one. Additionally, it links your results to modern approaches to personality assessment, providing deeper, research-based insights that other tests lack.
TraitLab's approach shows you the likelihood of being classified as each of the 16 personality types, showing how much you align with each type. It also bridges the gap between popular personality frameworks and modern psychology by connecting your type probabilities to validated personality traits like Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. This comprehensive view helps you understand yourself in greater detail and see how you fit within broader psychological frameworks.
The test consists of approximately 350 questions for the most accurate results. However, you can see initial predictions after answering around 100 questions.
No, the TraitLab's 16 Personality Types feature is included as part of TraitLab Plus, a premium offering that costs $49. Along with the 16 Personality Types Test, TraitLab Plus includes several other complementary personality measures, such as Enneagram Types, Personality Wordcloud, Strengths, and Career Interests and Matches.
TraitLab is an online personality assessment platform that provides detailed, research-backed insights into your personality traits, strengths, and interests.
TraitLab helps individuals understand themselves better and make informed decisions about personal development, relationships, and career paths.
TraitLab uses scientifically validated questions from decades of psychological research to create a comprehensive profile of your personality, strengths, and interests.
After completing the assessment, you'll receive detailed reports about several aspects of your personality and how they influence different areas of your life.
You can sign up for a free account to complete the personality assessment and access some of your results. Unlocking the full results requires purchasing the paid version, TraitLab Plus.
TraitLab Plus includes seven detailed reports: Personality Traits, Strengths, Career Interests and Matches, Interpersonal Style, Personality Wordcloud, 16 Personality Typology, and Enneagram Typology.
Most people will start seeing their first results after about 10 minutes (about 100 questions).
If you want to see every possible result from TraitLab, the full assessment can take anywhere from 30-90 minutes. However, you can always save your progress and take the assessment across several sittings.
Most popular online personality tests suffer from poor reliability and validity, meaning your results will be inaccurate and inconsistent over time.
TraitLab prioritizes high accuracy, reliability, and validity over speed. TraitLab achieves this through asking several rounds of questions about increasingly nuanced aspects of your personality. Each round increases reliability and removes error and noise from your personality profile.
Yes! With TraitLab Plus, users can reset their profiles and retake the full assessment every 30 days.
Yes! All TraitLab accounts (free and paid) include a public profile for sharing your personality insights with others.
TraitLab Plus is a one-time payment that grants lifetime access to the full TraitLab assessment and results. There is no subscription service, and there are no recurring fees or payments.
Yes! If you purchase TraitLab Plus and aren't happy, you can receive a full refund by contacting support@traitlab.com within 7 days of your purchase. Refunds are limited to first-time purchases only.
With your free TraitLab account you can purchase invite codes for clients, teammates, and anyone else you think might benefit from TraitLab.
TraitLab’s assessments are based on peer-reviewed research and validated psychological methods. While no test is perfect, TraitLab provides a highly accurate and nuanced understanding of your personality compared to most online tests.
Unlike many popular personality tests, TraitLab was designed by a research Ph.D., based on the tools and techniques used in modern personality science.
TraitLab goes beyond surface-level descriptions and offers a more advanced, detailed, and quantitative analysis of your personality, strengths, and interests.
Yes! TraitLab prioritizes your privacy. Your responses are stored securely, and TraitLab does not share data with any other services. You are the only person who decides whether to share your results with others.
Yes! You can delete your account at any time. In your account settings, you can request an account deletion and your account will be scheduled for deletion after a grace period. If you prefer immediate deletion, simply contact support@traitlab.com.
TraitLab is ideal for adults looking to understand themselves better, explore personal development opportunities, improve relationships, or gain career guidance.
TraitLab is also great for professionals in coaching, counseling, or team-building contexts.
Yes, TraitLab is excellent for team-building and professional development within company settings.
If you want to use TraitLab for your team or company, you can read more about team purchases or contact support@traitlab.com for details.
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