home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.psychology.personality
- Path: sparky!uunet!srvr1.engin.umich.edu!uvaarpa!murdoch!holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU!dtl8v
- From: dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Heracleitus)
- Subject: Changing Types? Was Re: ENTJ classification
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.201409.3794@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1993Jan22.114704.6270@praxis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:14:09 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
- In article <1993Jan22.114704.6270@praxis.co.uk> simond@praxis.co.uk (Simon Dawson) writes:
- >When I take the test (MBTI and the Temperament Sorter) I am clearly an
- >ENTJ. That preference for behaviour is how I have earned a living most of
- >my life (as a manger in demanding/cost-conscious environments).
- >
- >However, having passed through my mid-life crisis, I felt (sic) I would
- >like to behave in a different way. I really tried to be an ENFP, you
- >know, more caring more open minded, not rushing into action, not closing
- >down decisions all the time. I even changed my job from managing a large
- >department with matching budget, to a three person department with next
- >to no budget in a tiny company. Damn it I still get ENTJ on the tests.
- > [some stuff omitted]
- >There has been some discussion here about type changing over time. I have
- >always thought this possible - although I have now discovered it is
- >harder to achieve deliberately, than I had imagined. Unless ENTJ is a
- >particularly stable type ?
- >Simon
-
- Actually, I took the 70-question short-form MBTI today and pegged
- INXX, where XX means I strictly tied both T/F and J/P. On the very
- first admission of the test I took, I also tied T/F, although I
- was slightly J-biased, and the tie-breaker rule said take T. In
- every administration of the (abbreviated) test since then, I have
- consistently scored either INTJ or INFP, but not usually INTP or INFJ.
- I wonder what it really means. I agree with the descriptions of
- INTJ and INFP that I read in books, as they mirror me pretty well
- (both sides of my personality, I guess) and other groups don't do
- such a good job. I think the whole Jungian theory upon which
- the MBTI is based says age/experience/maturity contribute to one's
- narrowing the gaps between opposites, and Jung advocated trying to
- reach the golden mean between each (of the original three, I guess,
- since J/P was added later, etc.) I suspect I will always score
- IN, but the next two categories don't really make much distinction.
- I have often wondered what I might scored on the Minnesota test,
- as it is much longer even than the full MBTI, and more questions
- often mean less bias in subjective (and contradictory) question
- answers. I suppose you have to see a shrink to get the test
- administered?
-
- Doug Lamb
- University of Virginia
- dtl8v@Virginia.EDU
-
-