KEIRSEY TEMPERAMENT TEST RESULTS

I recently took a shortened online version of a "personality test" called the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. I tend not pay too much heed when tests like this are in a magazine or on the Web, instead of a more thorough test that's administered by a psychologist. I was particularly fascinated by the results of this one, though, because it was pretty much spot-on. Here's what it came up with:

   EI: 2 out of 10
   Introvert+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+Extrovert
                      |
                     20%
   SN: 18 out of 20
   iNtuition+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+Sensation
                                                         |
                                                        90%
   TF: 17 out of 20
   Feeling  +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+Thinking
                                                      |
                                                     85%
   JP: 16 out of 20
   Perceiving+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+Judging
                                                    |
                                                   80%

Your MBTI type is ENFP

Profile: ENFP
Revision: 1.6
Date of Revision: 8 Feb 95

Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

by Joe Butt (jabutt@sacam.oren.ortn.edu)

ENFPs are friendly folks. Most are really enjoyable people. Some of the most soft-hearted people are ENFPs.

ENFPs have what some call a "silly switch." They can be intellectual serious, all business for a while, but whenever they get the chance, they flip that switch and become CAPTAIN WILDCHILD, the scourge of the swimming pool, ticklers par excellence. Sometimes they may even appear intoxicated when the "switch" is flipped. One study has shown that ENFPs are significantly overrepresented in psychodrama. Most have a natural propensity for role-playing and acting.

ENFPs like to tell funny stories, especially about their friends. This penchant may be why many are attracted to journalism. I kid one of my ENFP friends that if I want the sixth fleet to know something, I'll just tell him.

ENFPs are global learners. Close enough is satisfactory to the ENFP. which may unnerve more precise thinking types, especially with such things as piano practice ("three quarter notes or four ... what's the difference?") Amazingly, some ENFPs are adept at exacting disciplines such as mathematics. Go figure.

Friends are what life is about to ENFPs, more so even than the other NFs. They hold up their end of the relationship, sometimes being taken advantage of by less caring individuals. ENFPs are energized by being around people. Some have real difficulty being alone, especially on a regular basis.

One ENFP colleague, a social worker, had such tremendous interpersonal skills that she put her interviewers at ease during her own job interview. She had the ability to make strangers feel like old friends.

ENFPs sometimes can be blindsided by their secondary Feeling function. Hasty decisions based on deeply felt values may boil over with unpredictable results. More than one ENFP has abruptly quit a job in such a moment.

Famous ENFPs:

Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

by Marina Margaret Heiss (mmh0m@poe.acc.virginia.edu)

[The following comes partially from the archetype, but mostly from my own dealings with ENFPs.]

General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.

Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As SOs/mates they are warm, affectionate (lots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature ENFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.

ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; this sometimes results in their neglecting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.

Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Followthrough tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group with a J or two to take up the slack.

ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.

[previously attached comments about the profiles from ENFPs were removed from this file and saved in the file 'enfp.comments' at the sunsite.unc.edu archive in the profiles directory. Since the profile attached at the end of the previous file was identified as copyrighted material, it has been removed.]

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