Surprised By The Results Of A Personality Test

[jbrowning]

The companies I've worked at don't care how a person scored. They offered the programs to try to improve communication between employees.

That part that really clicked for me that helps with PTSD symptoms was that there's a difference between how you think/feel and how you put that thought/feeling into action.

People at work score me as Amiable but I know that I think like a Driver. I know exactly what I want to get out of a work team but instead of commanding the group, I'll more gently get the team to the 'right' answer. I won't let up until we get there or I'm shown that I'm wrong but the group gets there together.

As a side note, when I told my wife how I was scored she said "there's no way you're amiable". She knows a different 'me'.

This ties into PTSD symptoms in that I think I take the amiable approach in many situations because that's the way I learned to live with the negative environment (trauma?) that I experienced growing up. Time in the military just reinforced it.

Thanks for the discussion on a topic I spend a lot of time thinking about.

 

[Saule]

I find all this personality type stuff interesting. There's also the enneagram which offers a lot of insight into different personality types which I've found to be very accurate for me and DP. I have a book on it. As for Myers Briggs, I'm INFP which wasn't surprising for me. I'm a very typical INFP.

I did have trouble working out my enneagram result though, I always thought I was a type 4 because of all my depression problems, but I realised more recently that I'm actually a type 9 and always have been. I guess I have more self awareness than I did a few years ago and I can recognise and accept my true qualities and tendencies as opposed how I sometimes view myself or 'want' to be.

 

[Kintsugi]

INFP... But everything was "slight" (22% or under) besides intuition, which was 25%. Is that typical? I feel like all the tests I take say I border between two things. I took the BBC gender brain test and got almost a perfect 50/50 between typically female and male thinking styles. I think it was 53/47 with a feminine bias. What gives?

Postscript edit: I am not surprised one bit by the categories themselves, just how mild my bias seems to be.

 

[aka]

I have taken the Myers Briggs test several times and have always scored as a INFJ. The description of this personality type fits me perfectly.

 

[jbrowning]

I hadn't seen enneagram before. It is another interesting way to look at results. I came back very similar to the other surveys in that I'm split pretty evenly across multiple areas with one being slightly higher (type 4).

Thanks for the enneagram info!