Your result for The Social Orientation Inventory ...
The Casanova
+Attent/Other/+Attach/+Emo/+<3/Broad/Secure
You scored 66% Attention-desiring, 56% Other-directedness, 65% Attachment-desiring, 56% Emotionality, 77% Romance-seeking, 53% Range, and 50% Secureness.
Your Bonding Quadrant: Merging
Summary: Everyone within a five-mile radius knows who you are. Your high self-confidence and pushiness might scare some people away, but overall you have no problem making and keeping relationships. You're probably loud in bed.
Here is a glossary to help you understand the cryptic, septapartite notation of your SOI type:
-Attent=low desire for attention, acknowledgement, and/or interaction
+Attent=high desire for attention, acknowledgement, and/or interaction (specific attentional needs vary from type to type)
Self=more interested in oneself than in others when interacting
Other=more interested in others than in oneself when interacting
-Attach=does not seek out long-term attachments
+Attach=seeks out long-term attachments
-Emo=prefers unemotional relationships
+Emo=prefers emotionally intense relationships
-<3=low desire for sex and/or romance
+<3=high desire for sex and/or romance
Narrow=interacts with few people
Broad=interacts with many people
Insecure=expects negative evaluation from others
Secure=does not expect negative evaluation from others
Merging=High attachment-seeking, high emotionality (merging types are prone to obsession; devotion; identity crises; offspring)
Companionate=High attachment-seeking, low emotionality (companionate types are likely to be loyal, cool-headed, and dependable, with a long-term temporal orientation)
Acute=Low attachment-seeking, high emotionality (acute types tend toward extremes, and temporal orientation is mostly immediate)
Distant=Low attachment-seeking, low emotionality (distant types are the most autonomous and the most avoidant)
