Personality Type Assessment for D E M O

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Extrovert: 80%

Sensory: 70%

Thinking: 75%

Judging: 70%

Introvert: 55%

iNtuitive: 80%

Feeling: 80%

Perceiving: 70%

You as the "Extraverted Feeling with iNtuition" type

Characteristics of ENFJs

ENFJ (Extraversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Judging) is an acronym used in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) publications to refer to one of the sixteen personality types.

Your type is showing:

• E - Extraversion preferred to Introversion
• N - iNtuition preferred to Sensing
• F - Feeling preferred to Thinking
• J - Judging preferred to Perceiving

Your hierarchy of preferred cognitive functions is:

• Dominant: Extraverted Feeling (Fe)
• Auxiliary: Introverted Intuition (Ni)
• Tertiary: Extraverted Sensing (Se)
• Inferior: Introverted Thinking (Ti)

Extraverted feeling types seek continuity through harmonious relationships and collective values. They excel at picking up on the tone of a situation and acting accordingly, adding warmth to a cool setting or turning sour into sweet. They naturally seek to know what people do well, what they enjoy, and where and how they work. They seem to have an infinite number of acquaintances from all walks of life and are always on the lookout for people in need and those who can help out. ENFJs weave and strengthen the collective fabric of social conventions and interactions. Inclusiveness is important and they are particularly sensitive to those who are excluded.

ENFJs focus on others, feeling a glow when those around them are happy, and troubled when something is amiss. They are natural cheerleaders, often expressing support, gratitude, and encouragement, and heaping praise onto those they appreciate. They take note of what is being done and what needs doing, offering their assistance wherever necessary.

ENFJs enjoy organizing group activities and tend to take their commitments seriously. In general, they are reliable and do not like to disappoint others. As team players and project leaders, they have a gift for rallying their players, focusing on what is being done right and each member's strengths. They are loyal and they expect loyalty. They carry conversations well, finding common ground with their speaker. They tend to find the correct and gracious way to respond in any given situation, no matter how tense or uncomfortable it is.

Extraverted feeling types will uphold a wide range of values, simply because shared values are what create harmony. Some will profess the importance of tough-minded logic, justice and scholarly debate because their environments have these shared values. They tend to adopt the collective values of those they love and "belong to".

The MBTI instrument

The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types, which proposed a psychological typology based on his theories of cognitive functions. From Jung's work, came out the well-known personality test called the MBTI assessment, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs.

The MBTI preferences indicate the differences in people based on the following:

• How they focus their attention or get their energy (Extraversion or Introversion)
• How they perceive or take in information (Sensing or Intuition)
• How they prefer to make decisions (Thinking or Feeling)
• How they orient themselves to the external world (Judging or Perceiving)

By using their preference in each of these areas, people develop what Jung and Myers called psychological type. This underlying personality pattern results from the dynamic interaction of their four preferences, in conjunction with environmental influences and their own individual tendencies. People are likely to develop behaviors, skills, and attitudes based on their particular type. Each personality type has its own potential strengths as well as areas that offer opportunities for growth.

The MBTI tool consists of multiple choice questions that sort respondents on the basis of the four "dichotomies" (pairs of psychological opposites). Sixteen different outcomes are possible, each identified by its own four-letter code, referred to by initial letters. (N is used for iNtuition, to differentiate it from Introversion). The MBTI is approximately 75% accurate according to its own manual.

About Cognitive functions

Drawing upon Jungian theory, Isabel Myers proposed that for each personality type, the cognitive functions—sensing, intuition, thinking, and feeling — form a hierarchy. This hierarchy represents the person's "default" pattern of behavior.

The Dominant function is the personality type's preferred role, the one they feel most comfortable with. The secondary Auxiliary function serves to support and expand on the Dominant function. If the Dominant is an information gathering function (sensing or intuition), the Auxiliary is a decision making function (thinking or feeling), and vice versa. The Tertiary function is less developed than the Dominant and Auxiliary, but it matures over time, rounding out the person's abilities. The Inferior function is the personality type's Achilles' heel. This is the function they are least comfortable with. Like the Tertiary, the Inferior function strengthens with maturity.

You as the "Teacher Idealist"

The Teacher by Temperament and Intelligence Type

Teacher Idealist is one of the 16 role variants in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality questionnaire. David Keirsey originally described the Teacher role variant; however, the personality description by Isabel Myers greatly contributed to its development. Teachers correlate with the ENFJ Myers-Briggs type.

Here is how the Temperament Sorter builds your personality style from its 1st Ring - Abstract or Concrete, through the Temperament (2nd) Ring - Cooperative or Utilitarian, the Role (3rd) Ring - Directive or Informative, and up to the Role Variant (4th) Ring - Expressive or Reserved:

Introspective -> Idealist -> Mentor -> Teacher

Teachers are introspective, cooperative, directive, and expressive. Teachers look for the very best and expect the best out of those around them. They are highly capable of helping learners express their inner potential. Teachers communicate to their pupils that each one of them has the potential to succeed and motivate others to meet the Teacher's positive expectations.

Teachers like to have things organized, settled and planned out. They will usually have their work hours and social engagements planned well in advance and can be trusted to honor their commitments. However, Teachers are also capable of using their creativity to invent engaging learning activities for their pupils with little planning. Teachers are more educational leaders than they are social leaders, their primary interest being the growth and development of others.

Teachers have a highly developed intuition. They are highly skilled at understanding what is going on inside themselves and others. Teachers often find themselves mirroring the beliefs, characteristics, and emotions of those they have contact with to generate rapport. This enables them to feel a close connection with others and develop a personal involvement in the joys and problems of others.

Teachers consider people to be their highest priority, and their communication often asserts a personal concern and willingness to help others. Teachers are warm, outgoing, and value harmonious relations and interpersonal communication. Teachers are usually easy to get along with, tolerant of others, and popular. They may also be the most expressive of all the role variants. They have exceptional language skills and don't hesitate to share their feelings, beliefs and ideas. Teachers are very enthusiastic and can be charismatic public speakers. Their exceptional language skills enhance their influence within groups, and they are often asked to assume leadership roles.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves. KTS is closely associated with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); however, there are significant practical and theoretical differences between the two personality questionnaires and their associated different descriptions.

About the sorter descriptions

Temperament can be seen like the rings of a tree:

• The inner ring - abstract versus concrete: According to Keirsey, everyone can engage in both observation and introspection. When people touch objects, watch a basketball game, taste food, or otherwise perceive the world through their five senses, they are observant. When people reflect and focus on their internal world, they are introspective. However, individuals cannot engage in observation and introspection at the same time. The extent to which people are more observant or introspective directly affects their behavior.
  
  People who are primarily observant are more "down to earth", more concrete in their worldview, and tend to focus on practical matters such as food, shelter and their immediate relationships. Carl Jung used the word sensing to describe concrete people. People who are primarily introspective are more "head in the clouds", are more abstract in their world view, and tend to focus on global issues. Carl Jung used the word intuition to describe abstract people.
• The second ring - cooperative versus utilitarian (pragmatic): Keirsey uses the words pragmatic and cooperative when comparing the differing temperaments. People who are cooperative pay more attention to other people's opinions and are more concerned with doing the right thing. People who are pragmatic pay more attention to their own thoughts or feelings and are more concerned with doing what works. There is no comparable idea of Myers or Jung that corresponds to this dichotomy, so this is a significant difference between the work of David Keirsey and that of Isabel Myers and Carl Jung.
  
  This ring, in combination with the inner ring, determines a person's temperament. The pragmatic temperaments are Rationals (pragmatic and abstract) and Artisans (pragmatic and concrete). The cooperative temperaments are Idealists (cooperative and abstract), and Guardians (cooperative and concrete).
• The third ring - directive versus informative: The third ring distinguishes between people who primarily communicate by informing others versus people who primarily communicate by directing others. Each of the four temperaments is subdivided by this distinction for a result of eight roles.
  
  The directive roles are Operators (directive Artisans), Administrators (directive Guardians), Mentors (directive Idealists), and Coordinators (directive Rationals). The informative roles are Entertainers (informative Artisans), Conservators (informative Guardians), Advocates (informative Idealists), and Engineers (informative Rationals).
• The fourth ring - expressive versus reserved (attentive): The fourth ring describes how people interact with their environment. Individuals who primarily act before reflecting are described as expressive, whereas people who primarily reflect before acting are described as attentive. Each of the eight categories can be subdivided by this distinction, for a total of 16 role variants. These 16 role variants correlate to the 16 Myers-Briggs types.

The Four Temperaments

• Artisans are observant and pragmatic. Composers, Crafters, Performers, and Promoters are the role variants contained within this temperament. Their greatest strength is tactical variation. Their most developed intelligence operations is either expediting or improvising.
• Guardians are observant and cooperative. Protectors, Inspectors, Supervisors, and Providers are the role variants contained within this category. Guardians seek membership or belonging and are concerned with responsibility and duty. Their greatest strength is logistical intelligence. They excel at organizing, facilitating, checking, and supporting.
• Idealists are introspective and cooperative. Healers, Counselors, Champions and Teachers are the role variants contained within this category. Idealists seek meaning and significance and are concerned with finding their own unique identity. Their greatest strength is diplomatic intelligence. They excel at clarifying, unifying, individualizing, and inspiring.
• Rationals are introspective and pragmatic. Architects, Masterminds, Inventors and Fieldmarshals are the role variants contained within this category. Rationals seek mastery, and self-control and are concerned with their own knowledge and competence. Their greatest strength is strategic intelligence. They excel in any kind of logical investigation such as engineering, conceptualizing, theorizing, and coordinating.

The Eight Roles

• Operators are observant, pragmatic, and directive. Crafters and Promoters are the two role variants of the directive Artisans.
• Entertainers are observant, pragmatic and informative. Composers and Performers are the two role variants of the informative Artisans.
• Administrators are observant, cooperative, and directive. Inspectors and Supervisors are the two role variants of the directive Guardians.
• Conservators are observant, cooperative, and informative. Protectors and Providers are the two role variants of the informative Guardians.
• Mentors are introspective, cooperative, and directive. Counselors and Teachers are the two role variants of the directive Idealists.
• Advocates are introspective, cooperative and informative. Healers and Champions are the two role variants of the informative Idealists.
• Coordinators are introspective, pragmatic and directive. Masterminds and Fieldmarshals are the two role variants of the directive Rationals.
• Engineers are introspective, pragmatic and informative. Architects and Inventors are the two role variants of the informative Rationals.

Myers-Briggs Types versus Keirsey's Temperaments

• Myers primarily focused on how people think and feel; Keirsey focused more on behavior, which is directly observable.
• Myers' descriptions use a linear four-factor model; Keirsey's descriptions use a systems field theory model.
• Myers, following Jung's lead, emphasized the extraversion/introversion dichotomy; Keirsey's model places greater importance on the sensing/intuition dichotomy.
• Myers grouped types by "function attitudes"; Keirsey, by temperament.

Myers grouped types according to cognitive function: the "thinking type" grouping for those with dominant thinking; the "intuitive type" grouping for those with dominant intuition; the "feeling type" grouping for those with dominant feeling; and the "sensing type" grouping for those with dominant sensing. Keirsey's temperaments are based on combinations of preferences: Guardians with sensing plus judging; Artisans with sensing plus perceiving; Idealists with intuition plus feeling; and Rationals with intution plus thinking.

Myers paired ESTJs with ENTJs, ISFPs with INFPs, INTPs with ISTPs, and ENFJs with ESFJs because they share the same dominant function attitude. ESTJs and ENTJs are both extraverted thinkers, ISFPs and INFPs are both introverted feelers, INTPs and ISTPs are both introverted thinkers, and ENFJs and ESFJs are both extraverted feelers. Keirsey holds that these same groupings are very different from one another because they are of different temperaments. ESTJs are Guardians whereas ENTJs are Rationals; ISFPs are Artisans whereas INFPs are Idealists; INTPs are Rationals whereas ISTPs are Artisans; and ENFJs are Idealists whereas ESFJs are Guardians.

You as "Ethical Intuitive Extrovert"

The Mentor/Actor

The Ethical Intuitive Extrovert, EIE, ENFJ, the Actor, the Mentor, or Hamlet is one of the sixteen Socionics types. The Ethical Intuitive Extrovert is a rational, extroverted, dynamic type whose leading functions are extroverted ethics and introverted intuition.

Model A

Ego block

Leading function: Extroverted ethics

EIEs are naturally animate and passionate and are skilled at generating liveliness and excitement. They believe that people need to be emotionally involved in life, not distant or indifferent to the important things that are happening. EIEs often hold strong views about governance and social custom, though their beliefs stem from the interests of their close emotional relationships.

EIEs like to involve people in interaction and create groups based around a shared experience. They tend to try to continually broaden these groups and engage people who seem to be on the sidelines. The individuals who the EIE is spending time with are far more important to the EIE than the event that is actually taking place.

EIEs like to make their friends laugh, and employ an over the top style of humor. Often the joke is on the EIE, whether or not they know it.

Creative function: Introverted intuition

EIEs have a keen sense of the significance of the moment, life's flow of events, and the past and future evolution of things. The excitement they stimulate generally has to do not with a specific situation or thing, but with the overall picture and other intangible things that can only be perceived over time.

EIEs love their friends, and they will do anything to keep them. Time spent alone for the EIE is often spent thinking about how to better interact with close relationships, even when time spent in those relationships is not particularly pleasing. Even when the other individual is hostile, if the EIE judges them to be a friend they will act in a caring fashion and show affection to the other.

Super-Ego block

Role function: Extroverted logic

EIEs do not easily focus on the procedural aspects of things where their emotions and excitement have no place.

Efficiency always takes the back seat when the feelings of others are involved. The EIE will often disregard how work is being done if friends are leading the effort. If an enemy is in charge the EIE will harass and defame the enemy if a procedure is not being done effectively.

Vulnerable function: Introverted sensing

EIEs reject the idea that life is just a sequence of ho-hum everyday events with no particular meaning. They want everything to have a grand or symbolic purpose (the start-pqr-end value) that arouses the imagination and passions.

The EIE is more likely to measure the comfortableness of conversation than other more physiological signs. Still, they are quite attuned to the physical sensations others are experiencing and use the information to raise and lower the emotional conditions that those individuals are experiencing.

Super-ID block

Suggestive function: Introverted logic

EIEs admire people whose thinking is clear-cut, unambiguous, and stalwart, who reduce the myriad of possibilities down to one single option. This is something they are almost completely unable to do on their own, but have a deep need for in other people.

EIEs love to hear about information that their friends know. Talking about academic subjects, music, and movies expands the horizons of the EIE and gives them direction. Strangely, hearing the facts is usually just a side-note, the EIE deals with them just like anything else, in an Fe way. The information just gives them a new reason to see their friends, and more things to talk about with them.

Mobilizing function: Extroverted sensing

EIEs struggle with focus and willpower and have a need for something or someone that will focus them consistently and help rid them of their hesitation and doubt.

ID block

Ignoring function: Introverted ethics

EIEs understand interpersonal relationships and their own sentiments towards things and people, but they prefer to focus on the external side of these things (what happened, who said what and how they said it, etc.) and not dig around in people's minds or internal motives.

Demonstrative function: Extroverted intuition

EIEs can generate random ideas or come up with lots of crazy alternatives for fun, but they prefer to focus on understanding the development of a particular situation and not be distracted with possibilities that are outside that situation.

About Socionics

Socionics is a theory of information processing that incorporates elements of Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types, Freud's theory of the conscious and subconscious mind, and Antoni Kepinski's theory of information metabolism. It is primarily, but not exclusively, applied to personality and interpersonal interaction in the form of a personality type model called Model A. The theory was developed in the 1970s and 80s mainly by the Lithuanian researcher Aušra Augustinavic, a financier and teacher of political economics. The name socionics is derived from the word "society", since Augustinavic believed that each personality type has a distinct purpose in society, which can be described and explained by socionics.

The central idea of socionics is that information is divided into 8 different categories ("information elements"), which a person's psyche processes using "psychological functions". Different orderings of these functions result in different ways of perceiving, processing, and producing information, which in turn result in distinct thinking patterns, values, behavior, and thus different personality types. Socionics also features a theory of intertype relations which examines the interaction of these functions among types. Socionics has thus far been developed through introspection and observation; despite describing a wide range of human behavior and interaction, it has not yet been linked to quantitative, measurable phenomena.

About Model A

Aušra Augustinavic developed a model of personality called Model A, which includes all eight socionic functions. A function's position in Model A reflects the nature of its usage by a particular type.

Nature of functions

• Function 1 - leading, program, primary, base, or dominant function. This is the strongest conscious function, and the most utilized function of the psyche. A person's outlook and role in life is largely determined by the nature of this function. One is generally very confident in the use of this function, and may defend it when challenged.
• Function 2 - creative or secondary function, is second in influence only to the dominant function. It assists the dominant function in achieving its essence. One is generally less confident with the use of this function than with his dominant function. As a result, the creative function is sometimes less instrumental when a person is challenged or threatened, or when dealing with new and complex tasks and data.
• Function 3 - role function, is a weak but conscious function. One generally tries to be at least adequate in areas where use of the role function is necessary. However, generally one has very little control or confidence over the role function, and criticism is painfully acknowledged with respect to it. Tactful assistance is required from one's dual-seeking function to overcome the problems associated with the role function.
• Function 4 - place of least resistance or the painful function, is a weak and conscious function, in addition to being the weakest function of the psyche. One painfully perceives his complete inability to use this function, and reacts negatively to its imposition upon him. Tactful assistance is required from one's hidden agenda to overcome the problems associated with this function.
• Function 5 - suggestive, or inspired function, is a weak and unconscious function which is largely lacked. One requires assistance from somebody confident in this function in order to overcome the difficulties it presents. When left to ones own devices, the suggestive function goes unnoticed.
• Function 6 - actualization, the hidden agenda or estimative function. This is a weak and unconscious function which one often understands poorly. Nonetheless, this function has a strong influence over one's actions. Individuals requires assistance from someone who uses it confidently in order to understand it. Often an individuals is only aware that they are totally unaware of how to use this function.
• Function 7 - observant or the ignoring function, the function of personal knowledge. This is a strong but unconscious function. One generally has a good grasp of this function, but attempts to limit its use considerably. Individuals will disregard this function when an argument calls for restraint or when it will be difficult to indulge in its essence.
• Function 8 - demonstrative function. This is the strongest of the unconscious functions. As a result, it is so deeply rooted into the psyche that one is usually not consciously aware of its existence or utilization. Individuals will often identify their demonstrative function mistakenly when discussing 'who they are.'

Blocks of the Psyche

According to Augustinavic, there are four blocks of the psyche: the ego block, the super-ego block, the id block, and the super-id block. The ego block contains the dominant and creative functions, the super-ego block contains the role and PoLR functions, the super-id block contains the dual-seeking function and the hidden agenda, while the id block contains the seventh and eighth functions.

The functions within the ego and super-ego blocks are said to be conscious (or "mental") functions, while those within the id and super-id blocks are said to be unconscious (or "vital"). Similarly, the functions residing within the ego and id blocks are strong functions which are expressed easily or naturally, while the functions of the super-ego and super-id blocks are weak and expressed with difficulty or support, or not at all.