A major component of the SYMBIS report is the Personality Dynamics section, which explores how each partner’s personality traits compare to each other, and how those traits may affect how they interact and communicate as a couple. The report itself contains many personalized insights, but if you would like to dive deeper into the theory behind your personality type results, you’ve come to the right place.
The personality quiz used by SYMBIS is based on a popular personality assessment called “DISC,” which was originally created by psychologist William Moulton Marston. This assessment measures personality across two dimensions — pace and orientation — and is focused specifically on how you tend to prefer to solve problems and face obstacles.
By following your gut to select which words you most or least relate to, the DISC assessment measures whether you tend to prefer to take things at a slower pace, with careful, methodical deliberation, or if you prefer to move forward at a faster pace, taking bold risks and facing problems head on. It also measures whether you tend to be people-oriented in your approach to problem-solving — focusing on empathy, agreeableness, and cooperation — or whether you tend to be more task-oriented, focusing on logic, efficiency, and accomplishing goals.
SYMBIS Spouse “Types”
When you receive your SYMBIS report, you will see a chart much like this one (but without the letters), and you can see which “type” of behaviors and attitudes you likely tend toward, based on whether your answers reflected a fast- or slow-paced attitude, and a task- or people-oriented approach.
SYMBIS has created fun titles and descriptions for each option, which will give plenty of interesting insights all within the report. However, if you are interested in learning more about the DISC personality theory, this comparison shows how each of the SYMBIS spouse “types” correlates with the original DISC “types,” which use the terms “Dominance,” “Influence,” “Steadiness,” and “Conscientiousness.”
How Each Type Works Together
Different personality styles have different strengths and weaknesses, and there is no wrong combination when it comes to compatibility. Having similar personality traits to your spouse can often help you feel in sync, while having different personality traits brings complementary strengths to the relationship, so that you can each support each other in areas where the other may struggle.
To further explore how your unique strengths and weaknesses interact in your relationship, you can explore the website Crystal Knows, which includes a DISC Type Relationships section where you can find additional personalized advice about how your personalities interact.
If your personality dynamics results gave you a double letter, such as DI or SC, that just means that you share traits from both types — feel free to explore both pairings so you can learn from whichever one you relate to most.
As you explore the ways that your approaches to problem-solving are similar or different, you will gain further insight into why you may sometimes feel friction when trying to approach challenges in different ways, as well as how you can each leverage your strengths to support each other through your marriage.