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Date Posted: 14:18:17 07/21/03 Mon
I took a Myers-Briggs Personality Type test a while ago, and realized that I really haven't changed a whole lot (but changed from an INTJ to INFJ nonetheless) since the last time I took the test in 1985. Anyway, here is an analysis of my personality type. Now if you'd like to find out your MBTI type (which is pretty widely used as a run-of-the-mill foundamental personality test), you can do it on-line. I took it at www.discoveryourpersonality.com for about $90. You may be able to find cheaper places.
It's good to find out about yourself. It is very good. But remeber that there is no "right" type that you should be in -- certainly not in God's eyes. Another thing is that God has given the great gift of growth to every human being. No matter what type you are, you can love God and love his children with your unique gifts.
Have fun reading about my type:
MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR®
Interpretive Report
report prepared for
EUGENE HUANG
July 16, 2003
INTRODUCTION
This report is designed to help you understand your results on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® that you completed. The MBTI® indicates 16 personality types among people.
Your answers to the MBTI questions indicate that your four-letter type is INFJ. This is also known as Introverted Intuition with Feeling.
Where Do Types Come From?
The MBTI instrument is based on years of observations by the psychologist Carl Jung and by the instrument’s authors, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. Their ideas help explain why different kinds of people are interested in different things, are good at different kinds of work, and sometimes find it hard to understand each other. The MBTI instrument was developed with great care and has been used by people around the world for more than 20 years. Family members use it to understand each other better. Teachers and students use it to make learning more interesting and efficient. Young people and adults use it to choose careers that are likely to hold their interest and use their gifts. Organizations use type information to improve communication, teamwork, and leadership.
Isabel Briggs Myers wrote a description of each of the 16 types. Page 3 of your report describes type INFJ. The remaining pages give reasons why the 16 types are different from one another and tell more about your answers. Be sure to read all the pages to see your full report.
A clear understanding of the basics of your type and type development will be helpful throughout the rest of your life. Type development is a life-long process of gaining greater command over the powers of perception and judgment.
INFJ (Introverted Intuition with Feeling)
People with INFJ preferences have a gift for intuitively understanding complex meanings and human relationships. They have faith in their insights, which often take on a sense of sureness, of “knowing.” They find they often empathically understand the feelings and motivations of people before the others are themselves aware of them.
INFJs seek meaning and connection in their lives and have little use for details unless the details verify their inner vision. They use their Intuition primarily internally, where they develop complex pictures and understandings. INFJs are likely to be insightful, creative, visionary, conceptual, symbolic, metaphorical, idealistic, complex, and deep.
INFJs apply personal values and empathize to understand others and make decisions. They are loyal to people and institutions that exemplify their values. INFJs prefer to lead persuasively by sharing their vision. They are likely to be sensitive, compassionate, empathic, and deeply committed to their values.
INFJs want meaning and purpose in their work, their relationships, even their material possessions.
They are invested in growth and development for themselves and significant others and are willing to consider unconventional paths to achieve these. They value the depth and complexity of their insights and creative gifts as well as those of others. They want to see these insights realized in the world.
INFJs readily show compassion and caring for others, but they share their internal intuitions only with those they trust. Others, then, may find them difficult to know. When they try to communicate their internal sense of “knowing,” they often express it metaphorically and with complexity. They especially value authenticity and commitment in relationships. Though INFJs are usually reserved, they don’t hesitate to assert themselves when their values are violated. Then they can be persistent and insistent. Others usually experience INFJs as private, mysterious, intense, and individualistic.
Sometimes life circumstances have not supported INFJs in the development and expression of their Feeling and Intuitive preferences. If they’ve not developed their Feeling, INFJs may not have reliable ways of accomplishing their goals. Then, their valuable insights and creativity stay locked inside. If they’ve not developed their Intuition, they may not take in enough information or may take in only what fits with their internal pictures. Then, they will make ill-founded decisions based on distorted or limited information. For more information about psychological type, MBTI preferences, and the 16 types as well as applications for understanding type, see Introduction to Type®, sixth edition, by Isabel Briggs Myers, and the Introduction to Type series.
HOW THE FOUR-LETTER PATTERNS FIT
TO EXPLAIN THE 16 TYPES
Each of the 16 types has its own unique pattern of preferences. When you understand the patterns, you will see why the things that are interesting or easy for your type are uninteresting or difficult for a different type. (Note that these patterns are shown by the letters. They are not affected by the size of your preference clarity indexes.)
The four mental processes described by the MBTI instrument are Sensing (S), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), and Feeling (F). Everyone uses all four, but each of the 16 types has its own pattern showing which of these four processes is the favorite or first in importance, the second favorite, the third, and the least favorite.
INFJs like and use Intuition best and Feeling next best. Their third favorite process is Thinking, and their least preferred is Sensing. Youth is the time for INFJs to develop Intuition and Feeling. In middle life, Thinking and Sensing often become more interesting and easier to use.
The patterns for each type also show whether the first—or favorite—process is used mostly in the world of people and things (the Extraverted way) or in the inner world of ideas (the Introverted way). Here is how the whole pattern works for type INFJ.
INFJs use mainly their first process, Intuition, in the inner world of ideas. They run their outer lives with their second process, Feeling. Other people may at first underestimate INFJs because they see mostly the INFJ’s second-best process, Feeling, which shows in their outer behavior.
Their best process, Intuition, is less apparent because it is used mainly in the inner world.
INFJs also use Thinking and Sensing, but not so readily or easily as Intuition and Feeling.
Sensing is the process most likely to be overlooked.
HOW YOUR ANSWERS INDICATED TYPE INFJ
When you completed the MBTI instrument, you made choices on four scales. Each scale has two preferences. The letters for these preferences are E or I, S or N, T or F, and J or P. The instrument assumes that every person uses all eight of the qualities described by these letters, but that people find one letter of each pair more interesting or comfortable than its opposite.
Think of your choices as somewhat like being right- or left-handed. Both hands are valuable, but most people reach first with the hand they prefer. They usually use that hand more and become more skillful with that hand. In the same way, your type preferences are choices between equally valuable and useful qualities.
CHOICE 1: EXTRAVERSION (E) OR INTROVERSION (I)
These are two different orientations or attitudes toward the world around us.
E When you are in the Extraverted attitude, you relate more easily to people and things outside you.
You chose more answers for I When you are in the Introverted attitude, you relate more easily to the ideas and thoughts in your mind.
CHOICE 2: SENSING (S) OR INTUITION (N)
These are two different ways of perceiving or gathering information.
S When you are perceiving with your Sensing process, you are interested in what your five senses show you—what exists in the present.
You chose more answers for N When you are perceiving with your Intuition, you are using your imagination to see new possibilities and insights hidden from the eye.
CHOICE 3: THINKING (T) OR FEELING (F)
These are two kinds of judgment or decision making.
T When you make judgments with your Thinking preference, you base your decisions on impersonal analysis and logic.
You chose more answers for F when you make your judgments with your Feeling
preference, you base your decisions on your values.
CHOICE 4: JUDGING (J) OR PERCEIVING (P)
These are two ways of living in the world around us.
You chose more answers for J When you are living by your Judging preference, you like to have things decided; your life is likely to be planned and orderly.
P When you are living by your Perceiving preference, you do not want to miss anything; your way of life is likely to be spontaneous and flexible.
Here are some interesting facts about INFJ personality types. If you'd like to find out if you're this type, you can take the genuine Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® online now by clicking on the image to the left. You can take different versions of the test, including the expanded Step II with the 20 subscales. Look at the sample reports before you decide.
· Most important feature of an ideal job: "Use of my special abilities." Source: MBTI Applications, 1996, by A.L. Hammer.
· In national sample, highest in reporting stress associated with "Work, "Intimate relationship," "School," and "Other." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· In national sample, highest in coping with stress by "Talking to a professional." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· In national sample, ranked highest in being dissatisfied with "Marriage/intimate relationship" Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· In national sample "Leisure Activities," overrepresented in "Writing" and "Appreciating art"; underrepresented in "Watching sporting events." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· Academic subjects preferred: art, English, music. Source: I.M. Myers & M.H. McCaulley in Manual: A guide to the development and use of the MBTI, 1985.
· Among highest college persisters. Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· 3 top work characteristics favored in national sample: "Variety of tasks," "Clear structure," and "Independence & achievement"; lowest of all types in liking work environments with "Opportunities for advancement & high pay but not job security." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· In national sample, dissatisfied with "Promotions" and "Salary" in their jobs. Source: MBTI Manual, 1998
· With ISTPs, ranked first among all the types in using spiritual/philosophical coping resources. Source: J. Shelton, in MBTI Applications by A.L. Hammer, 1996.
· Among the 3 male types most "oblivious" to partner's dissatisfaction with the relationship. Source: N.L. Quenk & A.T. Quenk, in MBTI Applications by A.L. Hammer, 1996
Portrait of the Counselor (iNFj)
The Counselor Idealists are abstract thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.
Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known an Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.
Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.
Mohandas Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).
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