Posted by zeugma on January 19, 2004, at 15:12:16
In reply to Re: INFJ / ISTJ ??, posted by naiad on January 8, 2004, at 16:16:12
This study found ISFP and INFP types to be the most prone to suffering unipolar depression:
Myers Briggs Type indicator personality profiles in unipolar depressed patients.
Janowsky DS, Hong E, Morter S, Howe L.
School of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. David_Janowsky@med.unc.edu
OBJECTIVE: The current study was designed to compare the distribution of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types in patients with Unipolar Depression compared to normative data. METHOD: The MBTI divides individuals into four dichotomous types: Extroverted and Introverted, Sensing and Intuitive, Thinking and Feeling, and Judging and Perceiving. This yields eight single-factor and sixteen four-factor types. One-hundred-thirty Unipolar Depressed patients were administered the MBTI-Form F. RESULTS: Unipolar Depressed patients were significantly more often Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving single-factor types respectively, and Introverted-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving, and Introverted-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceiving four-factor types. The male Introverted-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving four-factor type was the most dramatically over-represented. CONCLUSION: The MBTI effectively discriminates a patient group with Unipolar Depression from a normative population.
I suppose I can attribute my nearly lifelong depression to my MBTI personality type. Now I wonder where all my other problems come from....
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