What is your Personality type?

[Feuer Frei!]

Take the free test HERE

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test designed to assist a person in identifying their personality preferences. Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed the test during World War II, and its criteria follow from Carl Jung's theories in his work Psychological Types.

Carl Jung first developed the theory that individuals each had a psychological type. He believed that there were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and how we make decisions. He believed that within these two categories, there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings. Jung believed that we all use these four functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency.

The developed theory today is that every individual has a primary mode of operation within four categories:

1. our flow of energy
2. how we take in information
3. how we prefer to make decisions
4. the basic day-to-day lifestyle that we prefer

Learning about our Personality Type helps us to understand why certain areas in life come easily to us, and others are more of a struggle. Learning about other people's Personality Types help us to understand the most effective way to communicate with them, and how they function best.

More information on the MBTI:

http://www.personalitypage.com/home.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs

I've included a poll with it to see what most people here obtain, for want of a better word.
Unfortunately i can only include 10 options, the entire personality types are 16.

[CCIP]

I did a test recently on this, so I won't do this simpler one again.

But sadly my type (INFJ) is not in the poll
The "I" and "J" are almost disregardably weak in my case - both are, from what I understand, developed recently rather than inherent to me. I was probably more of an ENFP to start with, but a relatively isolated lifestyle I've had over the past few years (largely by necessity of living in a mostly foreign culture, no family or friends around, focus on my grad studies, research, teaching) has made me develop introverted coping strategies and a necessity for being a bit wary of people (i.e. for passing quick character judgments). In general though, intuition is my dominant trait (75% last I checked).

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by CCIP

But sadly my type (INFJ) is not in the poll

Apologies, like i said in the OP, i could only fit in 10 options in the poll, there are 16 personality types all up, yours incl.

[antikristuseke]

ISTP though only the thinking part is strongly expressed.

[Jimbuna]

Tried it twice and got two different results

[Skybird]

As a former psychologist I can only say - do not put too much trust into such tests, even more so the more "static" their categories are. Personality may have traits and characteristics, nevertheless the most prominent quality needing to be mentioned with regard to "personality", is that of "process".

However, the most useful personality system I found to be that of the Enneagram. It is a bit unfortunate that it has the breath of esoteric circus and Jesuit conceptions around it, nevertheless is can be quite useful not so much in telling people what they are like as a static description, but to tell them by what they get attracted for personal developement, and what may function as a reverse attractor for their personality not developing but stagnating. It is both more dynamic and leaves the people more responsibility for their own developement, than many other orthodox psychiatric personality systems.

The value of magazine and online tests in most cases can and should be questioned anyway. That is true for theEnneagram as well. To use it for positive effect, one cannot avoid to thoroughly learn the whole system and why it is the way it is, and not different.

Good introductions are offered by Richard Riso or Helen Palmer. Claudioo Naranjo's work probably is more interesting for the practitioner in jobs of the psychological field.

[Hottentot]

72 ways of asking the same 4 or 5 questions over and over again . It missed the question 73.: "You feel sudden urge to smash your computer screen into tiny bits at this point. Yes / No".

[NeonSamurai]

On this one I got ENTJ (the so called Fieldmarshal personality), but the results could easily vary depending on my mood at the time I take the test.

Also I agree with Skybird in not placing too much stock in these tests (particularly the online variants). Furthermore there is little supporting evidence that tests like the MBTI, or MMPI are testing what they claim to, beyond psychometric testing (correlations and the like).

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Tried it twice and got two different results

You have a split personality Jim

[Rockstar]

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.






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[MH]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.






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LOL

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.

Let's all hope your World Domination is just as rational.
Keep us posted

[JU_88]

Im an ISTJ

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

You have a split personality Jim

You beern talking to my missus again?

[Flaxpants]

Well I'm an INTJ, which apparently makes me a rational mastermind as well.