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Oldham styles
¶
John M.
Oldham
,
M.D. is a professional psychiatrist renowned for his work on personality
disorders. Based on them, he proposed that healthy people have 16
personality styles, and the likeliest personality disorder they are
prone to eventually develop is correlated to which of the 16 is the most
predominant.
Since it is concerned with how healthy persons of different types become
psychologically unhealthy along different paths, it has similarities
with the
Enneagram of Personality
but
probably backed by more concrete empirical observations. Attempts have
been made to correlate his personality styles with the types of other
theories as in this
site
.
His personality styles are:
Adventurous
Aggressive
Artistic
Conscientious
Devoted
Dramatic
Idiosyncratic
Inventive
Leisurely
Mercurial
Self-Confident
Self-Sacrificing
Sensitive
Serious
Solitary
Vigilant
Correlation to socionics types
¶
On occasion suggestions have been made about possible correlations
between Oldham’s styles and the 16 socionics types, for example the
original creator of
The16types.info
. This is
perhaps a possibility worth investigating, since psychiatric statistics
of the frequence of the relevant disorder might say something about the
distribution of the socionics types.
This approach would present some difficulties, though. For example, a
superficial reading of brief descriptions of Oldham’s styles suggests
the following:
SLE
seems to be the best fit for three styles: Adventurous,
Aggressive, and Self-Confident.
SEI
is the best fit for Artistic.
all logical introverts, and especially logical
IJs
, can fit Solitary.
LSE
,
ESI
and
LSI
could fit
Conscientious.
SEI
and
ESE
fit Devoted best.
EIE
is the best fit for Dramatic.
ILI
,
IEI
and perhaps
LII
fit
Idiosyncratic best.
ILE
and
IEE
fit Inventive best.
SLI
is the best match for Leisurely.
SEE
and
SEI
fit Mercurial partly, but not very
well.
EII
is perhaps a match for Self-sacrificing in some
situations.
LIE
might be one match for Vigilant.