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Oldham’s Personality Styles: Solitary 

Solitude: Individuals with the Solitary personality style have small need of companionship and are most comfortable alone.

Independence: They are self-contained and do not require interaction with others in order to enjoy their experiences or to get on in life.

Sangfroid: Solitary men and women are even-tempered, calm, dispassionate, unsentimental, and unflappable.

Stoicism: They display an apparent indifference to pain and pleasure.

Sexual composure: They are not driven by sexual needs. They enjoy sex but will not suffer in its absence.

Feet on the ground: They are unswayed by either praise or criticism and can confidently come to terms with their own behavior.

Common Correlations:

Enneagram: 5, sp

MBTI: IxTJ

Big 5: High Neuroticism, Low Extroversion, High Openness, Low Agreeableness, Low Conscientiousness

Oldham’s Personality Styles: Adventurous 

Nonconformity: Men and women who have the Adventurous personality style live by their own internal code of values. They are not strongly influenced by other people or by the norms of society.

Challenge: To live is to dare. Adventurers love the thrill of risk and routinely engage in high-risk activities.

Mutual independence: They do not worry too much about others, for they expect each human being to be responsible for him- or herself.

Persuasiveness: They are silver-tongued, gifted in the gentle art of winning friends and influencing people.

Wanderlust: They love to keep moving. They settle down only to have the urge to pick up and go, explore, move out, move on. They do not worry about finding work, and live well by their talents, skills, ingenuity, and wits.

Wild oats: In their childhood and adolescence, people with the Adventurous personality style were usually high-spirited hell-raisers and mischief makers.

True grit: They are courageous, physically bold, and tough. They will stand up to anyone who dares to take advantage of them.

No regrets: Adventurers live in the present. They do not feel guilty about the past or anxious about the future. Life is meant to be experienced now

Common Correlations:

Enneagram: 7w8/8w7 sx

MBTI: xSTP

Big 5: High Neuroticism, Low Extroversion, Low Openness, Low Agreeableness, Low Conscientiousness 

Oldham’s Personality Styles: Artistic/Exuberent

Mood swings: Those of the Artistic temperament tend to experience a greater range of emotion than those of any other type. They are highly emotionally reactive.

Artistic inclinations: The Artistic type is the most inclined of all the types to be involved with the fine arts, music, or literature (Keirsey, 204). They take an artistic approach to all aspects of their lives.

Independent work: Like "the majority of poets, novelists, composers, and to a lesser extent, of painters and sculptors," those of the Artistic type "are bound to spend a great deal of their time alone (Storr, ix)."

Relationships secondary: Those of the Artistic temperament "are quite likely to choose relationships which will further their work rather than relationships which are intrinsically rewarding, and their spouses may well find that marital relations take second place (Storr, 107)."

Unpredictability: They may take up new plans, jobs, residences, etc. out of impulse. They despise routine and love improvising, stimulation, and new experiences.

Keen perceptions: The Artistic temperament is especially attuned to color, line, texture, shading - touch, motion, seeing, and hearing in harmony. The senses of Artistic individuals seem more keenly tuned than those of others (Keirsey, 205) 

Extroversion and introversion: The interpersonal conduct of those of the Artistic type alternates between the greatest extremes of sociability and social reticence.

Common Correlations:

Enneagram: 7 sx

MBTI: xSFP

Big 5: High Neuroticism, Low Extroversion, Low Openness, High Agreeableness, Low Conscientiousness

Oldham’s Personality Styles: Aggressive 

Command: Aggressive individuals take charge. They are comfortable with power, authority, and responsibility.

Hierarchy: They operate best within a traditional power structure where everyone knows his or her place and the lines of authority are clear.

Tight ship: They are highly disciplined and impose rules of order that they expect others in their charge to follow.

Expedience: Aggressive men and women are highly goal-directed. They take a practical, pragmatic approach to accomplishing their objectives. They do what is necessary to get the job done.

Guts: They are neither squeamish nor fainthearted. They can function well and bravely in difficult and dangerous situations without being distracted by fear or horror.

The rough-and-tumble: Aggressive people like action and adventure. They are physically assertive and often participate in or enjoy playing competitive sports, especially contact sports.

Common Correlations:

Enneagram: 8w7 so

MBTI: ExTJ

Big 5: High Neuroticism, High Extroversion, High Openness, Low Agreeableness, High Conscientiousness 

Hello there world!  I am planning on doing aesthetics requests because I am a bored college student!  I am planning to make mood boards based on enneagram, mbti, temperaments, oldhams personality styles, ect. I’ve posted a couple of random things I’ve made in the past that weren’t really specifc and more so based on just me, however I am planning on doing more specific stuff in the near future!