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Report using MMDI code: kong
This report is based on the results of the 'Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator'. This is a questionnaire that can help you find out your personality type. However, as with all such questionnaires, the results can be wrong.
You therefore need to decide for yourself what your personality type is. Your conclusion may be the same or different to this report. It may also be different to other questionnaires. It is estimated that the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, for example, produces a wrong result in one out of every three or four cases.This questionnaire, the MMDI, is currently in development, so does not have anywhere near the same degree of research behind it as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is probably not as reliable or valid.
This is because working out your personality type is not an easy task. Much of personality is 'unconscious'. Sigmund Freud used the analogy of an iceberg, suggesting that most of personality is out of sight under the water. Also, people are complex, full of contradictions. That can make finding out your personality type a bit like trying to find a black cat in the dark, whilst wearing sunglasses! Such difficulty is quite normal. Even some 'experts' in the field of personality have found it difficult to find out their type.
So, finding out your personality type is more of an art than a science. Questionnaires can help you help in your quest, and so can other people. But they don't always have the right answers. The only real expert in your personality is you.
To help you find out your type, we have matched the pattern of answers you gave to the MMDI questionnaire with the 'standard' patterns of the 16 personality types. The table right shows the percentage fit with each personality type.
From this table, you can see that the two highest scoring types are INFP and ISFP. This doesn't rule out the other types. But those are the two that are closest when we 'pattern match' your questionnaire results with each of the 16 personality types
Differences between INFP and ISFP
It may help you work out your type if we compare the similarities and differences between INFP and ISFP.
One important thing to look at is which preferences 'dominate' the personality. Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers said there is a 'dominant function'. What this means, in simple terms, is that two of the letters in the type code are much more important than the others.
For people with INFP preferences, the most important letters are I and F. For people with ISFP preferences, the most important letters are also I and F. This means that INFP and ISFP have something important in common. The same two letters are particularly important for them both, so they share the same 'dominant function'.
The Dominant Function
For INFP and ISFP the most important preferences are Introverted Feeling. Your 'dominant function' is Feeling, oriented towards the inner world. This means you give importance to particular thoughts, ideas, or beliefs. You are value driven, and you often bring a sense of priority that is derived from your strong convictions. You seize upon and emphasise ideas or thoughts that have the greatest import, bringing them to the fore and stressing their significance. You assess the inherent value or importance of new ideas and beliefs, focusing on those about which you feel most strongly.
Both your top-scoring types share the same dominant function. The characteristics of these two types are therefore very similar.
Preference Differences
INFP and ISFP differ in Sensing/Intuition. This preference is about the type of information you like to deal with. If you prefer facts, what you know, to have clarity, or to describe what you see, then your preference is for Sensing. If you prefer to deal with ideas, look into the unknown, to generate new possibilities or to anticipate what isn't obvious, then your preference is for Intuition.
Everybody uses both sides of the preferences at times, depending on the circumstances. But the difference between the two personality types is your natural inclination. That is, which would you prefer to do in a situation of free choice?
'Whole Type' Differences
Another way to help decide between two (or more) personality types is to look at the descriptions of each one.
As an analogy, you can't always tell which country someone comes from by listening to the words they use. If they use French words when speaking, they might be from France or Belgium or Canada or many other countries. To work out where someone comes from you have to listen to the whole person: the language, the accent, the behaviour, etc..
In a similar way, sometimes you cannot tell someone's personality type by looking at individual behaviours. You need to look at the whole person. You can then work out your type by comparison with some descriptions of the personality types.
Final Notes
Carl Jung said: 'every individual is an exception to the rule'.
You are a unique individual. The personality types can help you to orient yourself as you find your way around your personality. They also provide a language (a label) that helps you explore your identity.
However, personality types are not meant to put you in a box. Some people misuse the concept of personality type by saying that if you are ABC type, then you must be good at doing XYZ. Some people also make judgements about others on the basis of their personality type, e.g.: in recruitment. Such judgements are mistakes, made through ignorance.
We have an article on recruitment that explains why Myers Briggs shouldn't be used to make important judgements about others.
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