PMAI Archetypes
This was part of one of our four assignments, where we had to assess our scores for a PMAI quiz we had taken earlier in the month.
We were tasked at giving our top scores, our lowest score, and then explaining how these worked for us as individuals.
For my PMAI results, nothing really surprised me. My highest three archetypes were the Lover, the Creator, and the Caregiver; my lowest ranking archetype was the Destroyer. I feel this is a great assessment of my personality.
I’ll admit, when I first saw that the Lover was my highest ranking (with a score of 30), I was a little taken aback. My initial instinct thought that the Lover was all about sexual relationships, something that I hold in high regards and don’t flaunt on a whim. I had hoped that maybe this was a testament of my hopeless romantic side. However, upon further investigation and understanding, I learned that the Lover is all about making strong individual relationships. These do not have to be romantic or sexual, simply a connection between two individuals. This is a great evaluation of me. I do not consider myself an introvert, however I notice I do much better in one-on-one social situations, and always strive to form solid basis to relationships on individual levels. As my mom always says, “to know me is to love me.”
The Creator was an obvious choice for me; otherwise, I don’t think I would be at Full Sail University. My score of 29 for the Creator archetype is a great reflection of my passion for my craft and my creative insides. My major at school is Creative Writing, which is all about being creative and thinking outside the norm, however I am more than just a writer. I pride myself on my “jack of all trades” creative abilities: I am a performer, and have a strong community theater background from back home; I am an artist, with binders and binders filled with doodles, sketches, and completed work; I am a digital artist, with a DeviantArt account filled with my latest Adobe Illustrator images and cartoons; I am a musician, and am able to play the drums, piano (slightly), and vocals; and I am a designer, with experience in the sewing machine, pattern adaptation, and costume design.
28, my score for the Caregiver archetype, seems like a great fit; even though I’m surprised that it wasn’t higher than the Lover or the Creator! The Caregiver archetype is all about caring for everyone, helping people with their problems even if they aren’t your own, and making the world a gentler place. This is me in a nutshell. I have always considered myself a “White Mage,” which is a Final Fantasy reference meaning that I consider myself a ‘healer’-type character. I tend to always put other people first, hoping to solve their problems and woes before I consider my own. I prefer cooperation to competition in any situation. Had I known the archetypes before taking the quiz, I easily would have allotted this role to myself.
The Destroyer archetype was my lowest PMAI rating at 17. I think this is definitely the most accurate PMAI archetype to be my lowest score. The Destroyer is all about moving on and letting go. I admit that I am really bad at this. I tend to hold on to things that are special to me, and try at extremes to smooth things over before accepting something as finished or worth letting go. Without getting into too much detail, this can be really exemplified with my last relationship. Things had clearly reached a point where we were not romantically attached anymore, but because both of us refused to acknowledge the distance that had formed between us, we drug out the inevitable and didn’t break up until a few months after our feelings for each other had dissipated.
Nearly all of my other PMAI archetypes’ scores were in the mid- to upper-twenties. I think this is pretty accurate, as well. I feel that each role has something that most people can really identify with, so it makes sense that my ‘highest’ ratings weren’t much higher than the rest of the results.