Your result for The Social Orientation Inventory ...
The Borderline Personality
+Attent/Self/+Attach/+Emo/+<3/Narrow/Insecure
You scored 70% Attention-desiring, 51% Other-directedness, 52% Attachment-desiring, 66% Emotionality, 85% Romance-seeking, 43% Range, and 18% Secureness.
Your Bonding Quadrant: Merging
Summary: You crave regular acknowledgment and recognition from others. You make an effort to hold onto the few important people in your life, especially sexual/romantic partners. Your high expectations for closeness and intensity may lead to feelings of rejection.
Here is a glossary to help you understand the cryptic, septapartite notation of your SOI type:
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-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)
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Self=more interested in oneself than in others when interacting
Other=more interested in others than in oneself when interacting
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-Attach=does not seek out long-term attachments
+Attach=seeks out long-term attachments
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-Emo=prefers unemotional relationships
+Emo=prefers emotionally intense relationships
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-<3=low desire for sex and/or romance
+<3=high desire for sex and/or romance
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Narrow=interacts with few people
Broad=interacts with many people
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Insecure=expects negative evaluation from others
Secure=does not expect negative evaluation from others
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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)
Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)
You scored 70% on Attention-desiring, higher than 95% of your peers.
You scored 51% on Other-directedness, higher than 21% of your peers.
You scored 52% on Attachment-desiring, higher than 25% of your peers.
You scored 66% on Emotionality, higher than 76% of your peers.
You scored 85% on Romance-seeking, higher than 84% of your peers.
You scored 43% on Range, higher than 35% of your peers.
You scored 18% on Secureness, higher than 2% of your peers.