Myers-Briggs Personality and Christian Belief

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Goblin_Taters said:
Is there a connection between one’s personality traits and the Christian denomination/church one decides to attend in adult life?
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IMHO, no.

You will find all 16 of the MBTI types represented across cultures, sex, and religions.

All four of the temperaments you list-- NF, NT, ST, and SF-- are represented among Catholics I know as well as non-Catholics I know.

There is book, I can’t recall the exact title, that is about praying in your type’s style. It uses various Saints as examples of the various MBTI types-- extrapolating what their type would have been based on the various spiritualities of their orders, etc.
 
Found it! Gotta love the internet.

The book-- which I was introduced to on a retreat a number of years ago-- is:

Prayer And Temperament: Different Prayer Forms For Different Personality Types by Msgr. Chester P. Michael

Ignatian: SF
Augustinian: NF
Thomistic: NT
Franciscan: SP
 
isfp and catholic. But i would hardly call me a composer artisan. Can’t sing and can’t draw. Or dance. or paint. or compose anything including myself.👍
 
puzzleannie said:
right on!
my objection to this and other personality tests is that it measures feelings and reactions at the time the person answers, and does not do anything to uncover real deep-seated personality traits. the fallacy being the assumption that people’s actions are determined by their superficial feelings of the moment, rather than driven by deep seated often unacknowledged or unexplored needs.
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At first glance I wasn’t sure the type really fit me (INTJ), as a matter of fact, I was pretty sure it didn’t. Then I went back and took the test again just a little while ago, with the same results, and decided to explore the results a bit further with their profiles and explanations and was really surprised how much it really did nail me! It explained me and my life patterns much better than I ever understood them myself.

Now I just have to figure out what it means for my life from here on and how I can use it to further benefit! I know one thing it did mean for me was that my stubborn rational side has been on this never ending search for definitive truth and was never, ever satisfied until I found the Catholic Church! Hooray for that! 😃
 
Whoa! I have never seen so many fellow INTJs in one spot before. I’m Catholic, too.
 
Jeanette_L said:
At first glance I wasn’t sure the type really fit me (INTJ), as a matter of fact, I was pretty sure it didn’t. Then I went back and took the test again just a little while ago, with the same results, and decided to explore the results a bit further with their profiles and explanations and was really surprised how much it really did nail me! It explained me and my life patterns much better than I ever understood them myself.
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I have taken the Myers-Briggs test at various times in my life, and I have always gotten the same result. For the sake of accuracy, one should not over-analyze the questions. It is best to answer the first thing that comes to your mind. I know this from career counseling programs that I have taken when I was laid-off and looking for work. The same goes for the Strong Interest Inventory: one should never overanalyze; it is best to answer the first thing that comes to mind.
 
On a side note, it would be really interesting to see which personalities are more likely to be orthodox or heterodox Roman Catholics. Most cafeteria Catholics I’ve known are clearly SFs (usually ESFPs).
 
JezuUfamTobie said:
On a side note, it would be really interesting to see which personalities are more likely to be orthodox or heterodox Roman Catholics. Most cafeteria Catholics I’ve known are clearly SFs (usually ESFPs).
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What are most mainline Protestants? What are most fundamentalist Protestants?
 
Taken the test a number of times, and have always turned up ENFP but ALWAYS Catholic…
 
JezuUfamTobie said:
On a side note, it would be really interesting to see which personalities are more likely to be orthodox or heterodox Roman Catholics. Most cafeteria Catholics I’ve known are clearly SFs (usually ESFPs).
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:eek: Hey, that’s me! (The ESFP part… not the cafeteria part)

I wonder why that would be true? Are evtroverted party people less likely to be rule followers?
 
carol_marie said:
:eek: Hey, that’s me! (The ESFP part… not the cafeteria part)

I wonder why that would be true? Are evtroverted party people less likely to be rule followers?
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Hee… I hope you weren’t offended 😉 . But yeah, I was kind of thinking along those lines, about party people being more likely to interpret Catholicism as “restrictive” and therefore refuse to investigate further.
 
JezuUfamTobie said:
Hee… I hope you weren’t offended 😉 . But yeah, I was kind of thinking along those lines, about party people being more likely to interpret Catholicism as “restrictive” and therefore refuse to investigate further.
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No… not offended. I’m too busy having fun! :dancing:

Seriously though, I think in general, Catholics have WAY more fun… we pray hard… but still know how to have a good time. I used to attend a church that said no drinking, no dancing, no playing cards and no co-ed swimming. Now THERE’S a hard place for a ESFP. 😉
 
I can’t help but wonder why so many of us are INTJ? Your thoughts?
 
brotherhrolf said:
I can’t help but wonder why so many of us are INTJ? Your thoughts?
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I’d also like to see the breakdown in terms of converts/reverts in this catagory. It would make it even more interesting I think.😉

I’m not sure how the INTJ’s are categorized, I mean, are all INTJ’s falling into the same Rational block? I fell in that category with the subcategory of Mastermind. Sounds pretty impressive, but it hasn’t panned out that way in real life, except for becoming Catholic that is! 😃 (I’m not heading up any genius group of burglars or anything! 👍 )
 
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