Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales
The Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales (WEPSS) measures the
resourceful and non-resourceful characteristics of each of the nine personality
styles described by the Enneagram and gives an overall score used for
determining one’s type.
To take the WEPSS, you simply rate 200 words or phrases on a 5-point scale.
The inventory generates a Total score, a Resourceful score, and a
Non-Resourceful score for each style. The results are expressed as percentile
scores based on a sample of 1429 people. The reliability and validity of the
WEPSS meet professional testing standards.
The WEPSS is the only Enneagram inventory reviewed in Buros's Mental Measurements Yearbook, the recognized handbook in the testing field. "The WEPSS's greatest appeal and widest use seems to lie in the context of Enneagram workshops, aimed at self-understanding and growth. With this in mind, it offers an attractive alternative to more traditional instruments that have as their primary function the identification of personality and emotional disorders. The author's efforts to use quantitative psychometric tools to refine and evaluate an instrument inspired by a clearly humanistic or even mystic tradition are praiseworthy; too often, something as esoteric as Enneagram theory would be dismissed as outside the realm of such
methods.
The WEPSS represents a praiseworthy effort to "cross the divide" between quantitative-based mainstream psychometric approaches and less mainstream "interpretive approaches" to personality. The appeal that the WEPSS offers is a rich, "thick description" of test results very similar in texture to that provided by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The author may be forgiven if the interpretations and structure of the test (based upon Enneagram theory) are not yet adequately confirmed by empirical studies. The instrument offers a wide range of hypotheses waiting to be tested; further empirical confirmation of the WEPSS's validity and reliability will very probably draw more careful attention to it as a viable alternative to mainstream personality tests, especially among psychologists and therapists exploring such issues within a spiritual or humanistic framework." (
The Fifteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, 2003.)
There are both self-scoring and computer scored answer sheets which can be
mailed or faxed to Western Psychological Services or scored on your own
computer. The four-page computer generated report gives your
