Hello,
since having polls became popular, I have one another idea. I think many of you have heard about MBTI or so-called 16 personalities, where you are either Introverted or Extroverted, Sensor or iNtuitive, Thinker or Feeler, Judger or Perceiver.
well, similar thing happened to me in the past, but one result seemed to appear more than the others and its description of functioning and most correlated traits appeared to make sense for me. So then it may be just up to you to guess yourself, whether you are more imaginative or rather down-to-earth, more logical or emotional, more spontaneous or like to have planned everything.
I think it’s more in the gradation of answers. It’s a no brainer about imaginative and emotional, but planning and spontaneity are two totally different things to me and I do both.
Well, then you seem to be just either INFP or INFJ, I would guess rather INFP. When you have just two types, it’s easier to just compare the traits, even tho these two may come off as similar pretty often. Planning is something we all have to do, but you may like one thing more than the other. You may feel a strong need to have very clear picture of what for example you will do on holidays or you like to decide in the moment.
Something that might help you:
" INFJs appear more structured, rigid, and analytical, whereas INFPs appear more open, spontaneous, and artistic . That’s because INFJs are “extroverting” their structured side whereas INFPs are “extroverting” their open side. It also means that inwardly INFJs feel more artistic than they appear."
Now you make me curious, since I don’t know about these categories, but I will take these tests (or the test if it’s just one) later and i’ll find the answer (their answer) and I’ll post it here .
This definitely helps, since I had no idea what these letters (abbreviations) mean!
@Powren, I finally kept my promise and I did it and
It looks like I’m a Turbulent Mediator (INFP-T)!
I made a profile and had them email me my results, just to check/compare from time to time.
It looke like 23% of voters are proud members of INFP League (at least for now)!
Famous Members of this Elite Club: J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, Julia Roberts and (one of my favorite actors) Johnny Depp!
Now, if only I would keep my other promises, to read all the information from all the links that other members of this forum sent me/shared with me …
Is it possible that these tests are not accurate or that they give different results based on language/culture/country, since psychology is (slightly ?) different from one place to another (I read an article a couple years ago on how “normal” is different, depending on -a given- society values and what not)?
As I said, these tests are not perfect. For example, just because you’re not shy doesn’t mean you’re rather extroverted, there is not very strong correlation actually. Even I had a bit mixed results across languages but that shouldn’t be between more than 2 types. You can just google and compare them.
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