What Each Myers-Briggs® Personality Type Cares About More Than Themselves

A few days ago a friend sent me an article What Each Myers-Briggs® Personality Type Cares About More Than Themselves by Susan Storm on the Website Personality Junkie. Susan comes up with the following list

The ENTP – Innovation

The INTP – Truth

The INTJ – Understanding

The ENTJ – Individual Power

The ENFJ – Human Empathy & Understanding

The INFJ – Individual Purpose

The INFP – The Value of the Soul

The ENFP – The Power of Imagination

The ESFP – Freedom

The ESTP – Opportunities

The ISFP – Authenticity

The ISTP – Autonomy

The ESFJ – Community

The ESTJ – Responsibility

The ISFJ – Security

The ISTJ – Loyalty

I have recently been working a lot with Shalom Schwartz’s model of human values and thought it would be interesting to plot Susan’s type-values onto Schwartz’s model:

Some terms are the same, like loyalty and security, some terms have rough equivalents and some I had to plot according to common MBTI stereotypes (e.g. ESFP=fun). So, voilà, here is the finished “map”:

The resulting spectrum coincides quite nicely with the four temperaments recognized in MBTI (Keirsey) or at least there are three different wavelength bands. I have argued that these bands represent evolutionary adaptations to foraging, farming and herding.

Schwartz’s model lends itself to be split into four different temperaments