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The Devotee
I keep everything in its place, for everyone's sake.
You take any lapse in the old forms personally.
You keep everything exactly in its place, not for your own sake but for the people who depend on the order you maintain. When something slips, even slightly, you feel it as a real, personal failure.
Meticulous · Devoted · Exacting
The five together
Devoted, meticulous and easily wounded, you keep everything in its place for the sake of others, follow the old forms exactly, and take any lapse personally.
The Devotee's result is high on Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and low on Extraversion, Emotional Stability and Openness. Each band is wide on purpose: a score near a boundary can fall either side on a retake, and the portrait describes the pattern, not a precise point.
About 1 in 1,000 people
0.11% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Devotee is among the rarest tenth of the 243.
Bands are relative to a general adult reference sample. Honesty-Humility is measured in your Snapshot and appears in your report; it is not part of the portrait.
What The Devotee might recognize
- You redo a task that was already acceptable because it did not meet your own standard.
- A small deviation from how things are usually done stays on your mind for the rest of the day.
A question worth keeping
What would it take for one small mistake to feel like information instead of a personal failure?
Six lenses
The Devotee in relationships, at work, and under stress.
In relationships
What you bring, what you need, where it strains.
These six lenses on The Devotee come with the membership.
Written for this exact combination, alongside 90 trait pages, a strengths constellation and a growth plan.
Read them in the membershipOne band away
Move a single dimension and the portrait changes. These are the ten neighbours of The Devotee.
- Extraversion mediumThe Defender
- Extraversion highThe Shepherd
- Agreeableness lowThe Purist
- Agreeableness mediumThe Perfectionist
- Conscientiousness lowThe Homemaker
- Conscientiousness mediumThe Caretaker
- Emotional Stability mediumThe Benefactor
- Emotional Stability highThe Homesteader
- Openness mediumThe Caregiver
- Openness highThe Healer
The traits behind The Devotee
A portrait is a pattern across five measured dimensions. Every trait is reported as a percentile against the reference sample; the three bands and the portrait name exist to make the result easier to talk about, and the percentile is always shown alongside. Each dimension has its own page explaining what it means, what the research says it predicts, and how it can change.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Extraversion?
How much you enjoy being around people, talking, and doing lively things, and how much energy that gives you.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Agreeableness?
How kind, trusting, and cooperative you tend to be with other people, and how much you put getting along ahead of getting your way.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Conscientiousness?
How organised, careful, and reliable you are about getting things done and keeping your promises.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Emotional Stability?
How calm and even you usually feel, and how quickly you bounce back when something upsets you.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Openness?
How much you enjoy new ideas, art, imagination, and experiences that are different from what you already know.
The Snapshot also measures Honesty-Humility, which appears in your report but is not part of the portrait code. How much you tell the truth, play fair, want only your fair share, and avoid showing off, even when you could get away with more.
Questions about The Devotee
- What is the Devotee personality?
- The Devotee is one of the 243 Wellington portraits: a pattern of bands across the five Big Five dimensions rather than a fixed type. I keep everything in its place, for everyone's sake. Devoted, meticulous and easily wounded, you keep everything in its place for the sake of others, follow the old forms exactly, and take any lapse personally.
- How common is The Devotee?
- 0.11% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Devotee is among the rarest tenth of the 243 among the 243 portraits in the reference sample, and the share will move as the norming sample grows.
- How do I find out if I am The Devotee?
- Take the free Wellington Snapshot: 60 questions, about 7 minutes. You answer all the questions first, then you sign in with an email so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. There is no card. Your free results name your portrait and show your five dimensions.
- Is The Devotee a personality type?
- Not in the sense of a box you are sorted into. Wellington measures continuous traits and reports each as a percentile against a reference sample. The Devotee names the combination of bands your scores fall in, and a score near a band boundary can land on either side on a retake. Wellington describes ordinary variation in personality; it is not a diagnosis and is not designed for hiring. Read more about types and traits
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