Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Wikipedia (2009) (a non-academically credible but convenient source of information) defines the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator "... as a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions". There are 16 personality types, comprising of:
ISTJ
Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized – their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.
ISFJ
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.
INFJ
Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.
INTJ
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance – for themselves and others.
ISTP
Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.
ISFP
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others.
INFP
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.
INTP
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
ESTP
Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them – they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.
ESFP
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.
ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.
ENTP
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.
ESTJ
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.
ESFJ
Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.
ENFJ
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.
ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas. Source: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.asp


Which one are you? Apparently, I am an ISTJ.

I've taken this test two or three times in the past. I've had INTJ and INFJ as results.

I'm an IDGS. I Don't Give a Stuff.

Just kidding. I forget which one I came into. I wrote a neural network program once that automatically worked out your personality type using myer briggs. It could also detect if you have no personality at all.

I almost always score as INTJ. When I don't get that, I get INTP.

We INTJs are an odd bunch...

i am either esfj or enjf almost every time....oddly enough, when i went through diagnosed depression, i tested as an I instead of an E for the only time in y life....

I am a protestant therefore I am INTP.

Only INTPs can get all their theology correct.

I intern over the summer at this seminary/archabbey, and they make all their applicants to the seminary or folks who want to join their monastery take, among many tests, the myers-briggs. I told one monk I was an INTJ and he goes "Oooo, that's the monk profile!"

Fine with me. Monks are pretty cool folks.



On a side note, I would like to see which is more prevalent in Protestant/Catholic circles: Introverts or Extroverts. Or rather, I wonder if Introverts are naturally attracted to liturgical, formal, and reserved form of worship along all denominations, and Extroverts to more contemporary, non-liturgical worship.

i've been pretty strongly an E, and i'm lutheran...and one of my spiritual mentors in college is a non-denom guy and is a very strong I....i know it's a small sample size, but i'm not there there's a direct correlation to your worship style....

Yeah, I guess in the end it would probably be about even for both.

That is an interesting point. I'm an introvert and I come from a more old-school Baptist background.

I grew up with Anglican Liturgy and enjoyed it.

Now, I would run a mile.

I think that is my P.
INTP

Last time I tested, I was an INFP. And most of this does sound like me. I love my family very much and I'm loyal to them. I am very curious about a lot of things and am reserved. People tend to think I'm serious most of the time. (Those outside the circle) I do try my best to help those around me. And I do hold some deeply sacred values.

(Sorry. Had to check the search for this old thread.)

I'm an INFP.

I like to learn about myself. Thanks to the original poster for having the though to put this up.

I was born into the AME Zion Church. Though at the age of 19 I started to read the Bible more critically and found myself less affiliated to one denomination and I started to be more ecumenical. But I didn't even know that word existed--I simply found that according to the Bible all believers of Christ are the same before God and thus denominations don't matter so much.

--Aaron

When I first took it, I was pretty solid ENFJ. I was also Lutheran.
Now I tend to be about half-way between E and I, still an N, still an F, and closer to P though still on the J side. I still see my theology as Lutheran, though my official membership is with a Methodist church, and I work in an Episcopal church. A lot of people would probably consider me more United Church of Christ than anything.

FWIW

Or, as one of my college buddies said when someone asked him which frat he was pledging, "Sigma Nu Gamma --- Sorry, Not Greek"

INTJ here, although from time to time my T veers toward an F. I was raised Baptist and I'm now Catholic. I have no idea what correlation there is between those things.

Fellow INTJ here. Perhaps there is. I am not a Catholic, but Catholicism has always appealed to me in a way.

I don't put a lot of trust in psychology, but I'll play the game.


The last perosnality test I took was a requirement for a college course, and the results were:









(The reason I have that, is that I copy and paste the info into word so that I could print)


EDIT:
I was not raised in a church, but I am theologically most closely to a Reformed Baptist, but I love Hymns and Psalm singing, and don't care for contemporary stuff. I recently went to an LCMS church, and if it was a little bit lighter on the liturgy, and one specific aspect be changed (*cough* reading from a telepromter when praying for forgiveness *cough*) then I would have absolutely loved the experience.

"reading from a telepromter "

Projector Screen*

INFJ!!! The rarest around!!!

Just curious, what is the one specific aspect that you wanted changed?