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As a former psychologist I can only say - do not put too much trust into such tests, even more so the more "static" their categories are. Personality may have traits and characteristics, nevertheless the most prominent quality needing to be mentioned with regard to "personality", is that of "process".

However, the most useful personality system I found to be that of the Enneagram. It is a bit unfortunate that it has the breath of esoteric circus and Jesuit conceptions around it, nevertheless is can be quite useful not so much in telling people what they are like as a static description, but to tell them by what they get attracted for personal developement, and what may function as a reverse attractor for their personality not developing but stagnating. It is both more dynamic and leaves the people more responsibility for their own developement, than many other orthodox psychiatric personality systems.

The value of magazine and online tests in most cases can and should be questioned anyway. That is true for theEnneagram as well. To use it for positive effect, one cannot avoid to thoroughly learn the whole system and why it is the way it is, and not different.

Good introductions are offered by Richard Riso or Helen Palmer. Claudioo Naranjo's work probably is more interesting for the practitioner in jobs of the psychological field.