What is your personality type?

[poskonig]

Many personality inventories, some more hokey than others, exist online. I'm curious what types many Democrats fall under. In addition, I'm wondering if there is a correlation between candidate choice, and personality type.

My Jungian type is introverted intuitive, and I usually score INTJ on the MBTI. My enneagram type is #5.

And I'm a Dean supporter! :bounce:

Feel free to add links to other personality tests (they don't have to be serious) as well!

[populistmom]

1. Me

(I love this stuff. I probably spend too much time self-analyzing myself though. I can't figure myself out sometimes I think.) :)

MBTI is INFP (ever-so-exciting description follows):

Portrait of the Healer (INFP)

Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.

Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.

Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Tutors are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public.

Enneagram is this:


Both of these show 2 things apparently: 1.)I'm too good. 2.) I'm too boring (but I'm "nice").

I'm a Dean supporter, actually since very early (like last February when I read through all the candidates and their positions) when he was polling about 2%, but I'm not completely gung-ho either. I guess I should say I'd be flexible and support whomever the nominee was. I'm not much of a candidate basher within my party anyway (I stay out of GD'04).

[foo_bar]

2. it's saturday night

your sample might skew a little INFP.

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. ESTJ

hmmmm interesting

[foo_bar]

11. introverts lead 10:1

[DS1]

4. INTP

and now back to our previously scheduled program.

[moz4prez]

5. INTP here on the Myers-Briggs

INTP

The INTP takes his/her energy from the inner world of thoughts (and, maybe, emotions). He/she prefers dealing with patterns and possibilities, and making decisions on a logical basis. His/her life is flexible, following new insights and possibilities as they arise. He/she is quiet and detached, and adaptable (up to a point - sometimes he/she may stop adapting, insisting that there is a clear principle at stake). He/she is not interested in routine, and will often experiment or change things to see if they can be improved. He/she operates at best when solving complex problems that require the application of intellect.

[neebob]

6. INTP. nt

[tkmorris]

7. I am INTP as well

this is getting kinda scary. What is it that makes so many of us fall into this category? Is it simply natural for people of our type to be Liberal and express ourselves on an internet BBS?

It's funny, normally I avoid the "Look what the Freepers are saying!" threads but I would be very interested in finding out what personality types exist over there. It might serve to explain a hell of a lot.

[DS1]

9. hmm, Sat night, at home, up at 2 in the morning (eastern at least)

Doesn't sound like us at all ;-)

[ldoolin]

18. I have my hunch...

...that most Freepers would have the same personality types that most DUers have. I-N-something-something. It's the nature of holding strong political opinions and being active on an Internet discussion board.

"E" types are more likely to be at social gatherings than on the Internet. They like to be around a lot of people and babble a lot, the more people the better because it energizes them. They are more likely to talk about things relating to social topics or what might be called gossip, than to have serious discussions about serious subjects like politics. To me, when "E" types talk it's babble and I cannot understand what they are talking about half the time - and "E" types don't seem to be interested in discussing things like science, politics, or history that "I" types do.

"S" types are less likely to hold strong political opinions and more likely to be apolitical, or if they hold opinions at all they tend to be derived from the opinions of those around them (hence compromising and centrist). They are the sort who would be likely to turn up their noses at somebody expressing a strong political opinion, liberal *or* conservative, and maybe even think that person to be antisocial or weird for holding a strong opinion.

I'd be surprised to find more than a small number of E-S-something-somethings on any Internet board pertaining to politics - DU or FR or anything else.

[Insider]

8. INFP, Type 4

libra :shrug:

[Guaranteed]

10. INFJ.

When I took the test, the post-test analysis was unbelievably uncanny.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Another INFP

here, but sometimes come out borderline E/I and F/P. Pretty good fit for me though.

[ming]

13. INTP, 5w6 3w2 -- I wonder about repukes

I'd expect to see a lot of IN** types here on DU. I wonder where most neo-cons would test out at.



Edited to add enneagram.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Cripes, everyone's an "I" so far. Explains why you're here Saturday night

:evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I'm an ENTP

though I always score in the "E" range, in many ways I'm an "I" at heart. it's just that some of the questions for determing I or E are ambiguous - for instance, I love having people around me, but I don't need to interact with them. So, I love to go to Starbucks or the library when I'm studying and writing, becuase there are people around - but also because those are people I don't have to interact with. :evilgrin:

So, this "E" is also home on Saturday night, hanging out at DU...though I did go to a party earlier, but it was a party of mostly all people I knew which was more a cocktail party, and thus liminal.

[Nikia]

16. I'm INTJ, but I've been developing my feeling side

I've always had strong feelings though. When I was younger, I would be crying because I had a strong sad feeling and would be saying to myslef "Stupid feelings. This makes no logical sense. What the heck is wrong with me?" I wasn't really that great of friend either because I was so achievment oriented. To me faliure, was faliure and I had a hard time emphathizing with that or saying nice things to friends. I even said to an exboyfriend when he showed me his model train set which was the thing that he was most proud of "That is nothing. My father's train set is much better." This was not to be intentionally be mean. That was just my mindset.
Now I am working on my feeling side. I know that achievement is not everything and that feelings are an important part of life. I think that I am naturually more empathetic than most people and that I should embrace this part of myself, not deny it. This has been a huge learning experience and I have experienced a number of setbacks when crisis strikes where I say "I am not good with people. I wasn't meant to have friends anyway. Stupid feelings..."
I will always prefer to be INTJ at work too. In my personal life though, I prefer INFJ.

[supernova]

20. INTJ here

I empathize Nikia. I totally understand what you're saying.

I'm pretty goal oriented myself. But as I've gotten older, I'm come to understand my feeling side more. I'm still overwhelmed by my feelings sometimes (my feeling tend to be very intense), but I'm not bothered by the fact that I'm overwhelmed anymore. I just enjoy the ride now. LOL!

The biggest problem I've had is interacting with more ES types. God, most of the time I just want to run away! They feel smothering.

[ldoolin]

17. INTJ

INTJ. Dean supporter.

Actually I think you're going to find that asking this on an Internet discussion board - ANY Internet discussion board of any political persuasion - will have results skewed toward types starting with "I".

The "E"s are more likely to be babbling away at social gatherings instead of on an Internet chat board.

[poskonig]

19. Daytime bump!

I didn't realize I made this post on a Saturday night! Have fun!

[welshTerrier2]

21. and yet another INTP

first, here's an old list of DU INTP's i compiled from a previous thread: welshTerrier2, priller, Ivory_Tower, BlackGoat, BritishHuman, TXlib, GAspnes, Stevie D, AlienGirl, comeherekris, TrogL, dymaxia, DS1

looks like it's time for an update ...

fwiw, i'm 100% "N" and 100% "P" (just a little I and a little T)... at work, they bring me in to "look at the big picture" after everyone else thinks they've decided exactly what needs to be done ... and they bring me in to ask questions until they get sick of my questions ... this seems to help their process in some way ...

i never get tired of issues i'm interested in ... and there's no such thing as arriving at a solution ... you get to a solution only when you stop looking for "the right" answer ... if you keep looking, there's always more information that can change your direction ... the mere concept of conclusions is absurd ... this understanding seems to annoy people ...

when people get tired of my questions, they ask me for my opinion ... i give them an opinion and they often seem willing to go along with it ... then i begin to pick apart the opinion with more questions ... those with "J" personalities, especially ESTJ's just hate this open-ended, lack of closure process ...

it's cool being an INTP even if we're obviously aliens on this planet ...

[carols]

22. INFP also

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Carol