Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales

I have created the Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales (WEPSS), to measure the resourceful and less-resourceful characteristics of each of the nine personality styles described by the Enneagram.

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 Less-Resourceful score for each style. The results are expressed as percentile scores based on a sample of 1429 people and those percentile scores have been validated using a current sample of 180,000 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.)

The WEPSS can be taken online for $15 at www.WEPSS.com.

The thirteen-page computer generated report gives

  • your core Enneagram style
  • your preferred wing or neighboring style
  • what you find easy to do and what you find difficult to do and so may avoid
  • how you may have learned this style
  • what may happen to you under stressful and secure conditions
  • how you can be more in balance
  • to what extent you identify with the resourceful and less-resourceful dimensions of each style
  • NEW FEATURES!  Several changes have been made to the WEPSS Test report:
    • You can now click on links in your test report to view your second and third-highest styles. This effectively provides you three reports for the price of one.
    • Test Results now also include an extended section that outlines how to interpret your WEPSS scores.
    • There is a link directly within the report to take you to the contact page, if you have comments or questions about your test results. For an extended personal analysis of your Enneagram results via phone or Zoom, you can arrange an hour consultation with Dr. Wagner for $120.
  • As with all WEPSS.com test results, if you have taken the WEPSS test previously but wish to view the new features and functionality, simply log into your account at wepss.com and view your results – all past test takers benefit from the forever-access to your test results.

Reviews/Testimonials

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ By Ross Peterson, Director, Midwest Ministry

Midwest Ministry Development Service has been using the Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales for over 15 years with pastors and with people seeking to enter ministry. We have found it to be extremely helpful in identifying the key motivators for our clients, their natural strengths and their potential vulnerabilities. Many of our clients have told us that the WEPSS provided them with unique insights into themselves and how they operate. Often, the insights gained from the WEPSS shine a light on people from an “unexpected angle” which highlights aspects of their personality they had not previously seen so clearly. It has great potential to both challenge and encourage people. The WEPSS has proven to be a reliable instrument and
has become a standard part of our inventory array.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ By Gina Roes , MA, LPC, LifeChange Counseling Center

As a professional counselor I have found the WEPSS to be instrumental in my work with individuals, couples, and teams as my clients gain a crystal clear image of their personality structures through the information reflected back through the test. What I find most useful is not just the accuracy of determining a person’s core type, but also the different levels of access people have to all nine areas, both resourcefully and less-resourcefully. This insight allows them to see their own unconscious strategies and determine new approaches to life.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ By Granville D’Souza, DBA Regional Director 6 Seconds SEA, The Emotional Intelligence Network

The WEPSS test has been a total God send. Since I met Jerry in 2006, I have conducted 22 classes on the Enneagram and all have used the WEPSS. It stands apart from the rest of the tests because of the rigor and research put into it. The amount of information that is available for coaching potential makes this test one of the essential tools I use in my life coaching ‘armory’. Jerry has put in solid research to make available the resourceful and less resourceful parts of the core type, the wings, and each of the types in the stressful and relaxed movements. This in itself gives any person taking the WEPSS a detailed roadmap for moving forward. I have taken at least 2 other Enneagram tests before, and Jerry’s WEPSS clearly stands out from the rest.