Are your religious and political tendencies affected by your personality?

[Alcoth]

I'm performing a study to answer a question and I would greatly appreciate your time and participation. The question is:

Is there a definitive correlation between your personality type and where you place your faith in regards to both religion and politics?

The idea behind this is that certain personality traits (Compassion, being a "thinker", extroverts, etc.) tend to follow a certain group that may or may not be definable by their personality traits as a whole. I'm exploring the possibility that they may actually be defineable in such a way.

I don't know that the data collected will give us the difinitive answer I am looking for, but I want to document trends and tendencies. Maybe, if the margin of error is small enough, I'll discover something interesting.

A few guidelines:

1) "Personality type" is the terminology I use. I will use the Jung/Myers-Briggs test (which rates 4 aspects of personality). Essentially it measure how on perceive's the world and reacts to it. It is based on theory, and is a fair method of determination. The test has has a resulting 16 possible psychological types. The 16 different types are often referred to by an abbreviation of four letters, the initial letters of each of their four type preferences (except in the case of iNtuition).

2) I do not intend for this to be a discussion or debate thread, just for data compilation. That is not to mean I discourage discussion, but, I do encourage cessation until a fair data set has been acquired. I'm hoping for 100+ from tWeb, and I will see about other sources.

Here is the link to the test we will use. It is somewhat lengthy (easy questions though), and has some refer advertising but the site is safe and adware free. Please try to answer as honestly as possible. The more times the test is taken, the more accurate it will be (trending that is) but if you're completely honest the first time, once should do it.

LINK http://similarminds.com/jung.html

(I have taken the appropriate steps to notify the site master of this study.)

Directions :

1) Take the test. If you already know your type, proceed past this step.
2) Reply to this thread with the personality type results, followed by your current religious preference, your political alignment (not party) and if you would, your reaction to the results. If you're on the fence about either religion or politics, please state such and identify what you tend toward.

This way, everyone has answered the exact same questions with the same possible answers.

Thank you very much for your contribution and time.

I'll start:

I tested ESFP
I am a Christian
I tend toward Conservativism
The test pretty accurately summarized how I perceive and react.

[Alsharad]

Extroverted (E) 67.74% Introverted (I) 32.26%
Sensing (S) 51.85% Intuitive (N) 48.15%
Thinking (T) 73.33% Feeling (F) 26.67%
Perceiving (P) 52.78% Judging (J) 47.22%

Your type is: ESTP
Christian
Tend toward Conservatism with a strong leaning toward Libertarianism
Test was pretty close. I usually ESTJ or ENTJ, but if you look at the results, those two categories are almost at 50% so a bit of wavering is not unexpected.

[timspong]

Introverted (I) 65.79% Extroverted (E) 34.21%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 85.19% Feeling (F) 14.81%
Perceiving (P) 52.94% Judging (J) 47.06%

Your type is: ISTP
Accuracy: very good

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.


no political interest at all. I care how how the church is run but have little interest in secular government and how different countries govern themselves. BTW I haven't lived in my home country for 15 years so have very little interest in the secular government there and even less interest elsewhere.
Christian, Evangelical/reformed/charismatic(in the proper sense) & very interested in theology.

[Darth Executor]

INTP

Christian of the Eastern Orthodox variety.

Government Ideally totalitarian with me as supreme ruler, otherwise I prefer a typical conservative government.

[Chrs]

INTP
Agnostic
Left, with socialist leanings.

[Alcoth]

Thanks to those who have participated so far. My sample size is increasing from other sources too. :smile:

[lilpixieofterror]

-I'm an INFJ
-Christian - non denominational
-I tend to be on the conservative end on some issues and the liberal on the other. All depends on what side I think has the more valid outlook at the time.
-I've always found this test pretty accurate, I usually tend to test INFJ and sometimes INTJ depending on my mood at that time.

[Little Shepherd]

ISTP
Christian, reformed if it matters
Libertarian/Conservative

[Chaotic Void]

-INTP, an 'Architect'.
-Pentecostal Christian, with some Reformed views splashed in here and there.
-Mostly Libertarian, but all in all I'm not a huge fan of politics.

[Stax]

INTP:

Introverted (I) 87.1% Extroverted (E) 12.9%
Intuitive (N) 65.63% Sensing (S) 34.38%
Thinking (T) 81.82% Feeling (F) 18.18%
Perceiving (P) 69.7% Judging (J) 30.3%

I didn't get 100% for I? :shifty:

I'm a non-denominational Christian who's not particularly concerned about politics (mostly because I think a lot of the positions suck), although if I had to make a decision, I'd probably lean towards Conservative (in the American sense).

I'd say that the test is pretty accurate.

[odis]

Introverted (I) 51.43% Extroverted (E) 48.57%
Intuitive (N) 57.58% Sensing (S) 42.42%
Thinking (T) 64.71% Feeling (F) 35.29%
Perceiving (P) 66.67% Judging (J) 33.33%

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

You scored as introverted and intellectually curious. I recently started a discussion forum for introverted intellectuals.

i dont know how accurate this is. i have been changing a lot both in my inteligences and my perceptions for the past 10 years but i think its pretty accurate.
i am christian and a centralist.

[Knowing Thomas]

INTJ
Lutheran, Christian, on the lower side of the interaction scale, TE
I'd say 70% apathy, 20% conservative, 10% liberal

[{Tim}]

Introverted (I) 70.97% Extroverted (E) 29.03%
Intuitive (N) 53.66% Sensing (S) 46.34%
Thinking (T) 51.35% Feeling (F) 48.65%
Perceiving (P) 55.56% Judging (J) 44.44%

- INTP, but I'm inclined to say INFP would be slightly more accurate. As you can see, the last three are all somewhat borderline.

- Christian
- Somewhat conservative, but mostly per issue... I favour independent candidates over large political parties
- I think the MBTI test was fairly accurate.

[guacamole]

INTP

Liberal Christian
Liberal to Middle-of-the-road Politically
The test seemed accurate. I used to score INTJ when I was younger, but I know these things change...

[CodewordConduit]

INTP
Agnostic Atheist
Social Democrat

[Pilgrim]

INTP
Evangelical Christan
Socially Progressive

[NeilUnreal]

INTP (Architect Rational).

Liberal Christian.

Generally politically liberal (though I am conservative on some issues).

I find it almost spooky how well the Myers-Briggs and Keirsey measures describe me.

-Neil

[FreezBee]

- ISTP
- Liberal Lutheran
- Democratic socialist
- I don't know

[timspong]

wow 100% introverts so far?

[FreezBee]

wow 100% introverts so far?

Please be quiet and do not talk to us, while we sit here and watch our navels.

[Little Shepherd]

Welcome to the internet.

[odis]

Extroverted (E) 67.74% Introverted (I) 32.26%
Sensing (S) 51.85% Intuitive (N) 48.15%
Thinking (T) 73.33% Feeling (F) 26.67%
Perceiving (P) 52.78% Judging (J) 47.22%

Your type is: ESTP
Christian
Tend toward Conservatism with a strong leaning toward Libertarianism
Test was pretty close. I usually ESTJ or ENTJ, but if you look at the results, those two categories are almost at 50% so a bit of wavering is not unexpected.


wow 100% introverts so far?


so close and yet so far.... :tongue:

[One Bad Pig]

I(S/N)TJ - pretty accurate

Eastern Orthodox
Federalist (conservative)

[Darwin's Dog]

INTP

Introverted (I) 85.19% Extroverted (E) 14.81%
Intuitive (N) 82.76% Sensing (S) 17.24%
Thinking (T) 90% Feeling (F) 10%
Perceiving (P) 54.29% Judging (J) 45.71%

Borderline P.I'm usually J.

Agnostic Atheist, mildly Pantheistic

Very slightly right-leaning.

[Rational Gaze]

Istj.

[2cents]

Jung Test Results


Introverted (I) 55.56% Extroverted (E) 44.44%
Sensing (S) 52.27% Intuitive (N) 47.73%
Thinking (T) 56.76% Feeling (F) 43.24%
Perceiving (P) 54.55% Judging (J) 45.45%


Your type is: ISTP
Accuracy: - 5 high 4 3 2 1 low


ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.


iam in the middle? mmmm what does this mean?

[Rational Gaze]

Istj.
Ooops...
Introverted (I) 70.37% Extroverted (E) 29.63%
Sensing (S) 56.82% Intuitive (N) 43.18%
Thinking (T) 69.23% Feeling (F) 30.77%
Judging (J) 74.29% Perceiving (P) 25.71%

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.62
(from http://www.politicalcompass.org/test)

From another personality test: -
Openness
This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer novelty versus convention. Approximately 16% of respondents have a lower openness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is down-to-earth and prefers things to be simple and straightforwards. You might say that it just makes life easier if things don't change unnecessarily, that the arts are of no practical use to you, and that you think tradition is more important than others do.

Reflective question: How do you react to change?
Facets

(O1) Imagination: 84.1st percentile. This facet includes your imagination and fantasy life. Daydreams are for you a regular occurance. Your mind creates other idealised realities. It can be difficult to bring your thoughts back to what you are meant to be doing.

(O2) Artistic Interests: 30.8th percentile. This facet includes your interest in art, music and nature. You are less sensitive to beauty than some. Generally you may appreciate things for their material value rather than their aesthetic. Nevertheless, all else being equal, you would still prefer things to look nice too.

(O3) Emotionality: 61.8th percentile. This facet includes your experience of emotion and feelings. You experience your emotions more intensely than other people seem to. This may lead you to spend time reflecting to try and understand yourself. You may consider charitable causes to be especially important because of their emotional pull on you.

(O4) Adventurousness: 3.5th percentile. This facet includes your openness to new experiences. You prefer more than most to do activities that you have done before and know that you enjoy. You may be resistant to trying new things, such as eating new foods or going to new places. You may describe yourself as a creature of habit.

(O5) Intellect: 91.9th percentile. This facet includes your openness to new ideas. You are much more intellectually curious than most. You are interested in a range of unconventional ideas which you pursue for your own enjoyment rather than any material benefit.

(O6) Liberalism: 30.8th percentile. This facet includes your openness to values. Your values are more conservative than average. Generally you see no need to re-examine the values of honoured tradition, although there may be one or two areas that you feel need to be liberalised.

Facet O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6
%ile 84.1 30.8 61.8 3.5 91.9 30.8
Conscientiousness

This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer an organised, or a flexible, approach in life. Approximately 69.2% of respondents have a lower conscientiousness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who avoids foreseeable trouble through purposefully planning, and achieves success through persistence. From your responses it appears that you are reliable and prepared for life's challenges.

Reflective question: How do you feel when you are working with someone who is disorganised?
Facets

(C1) Self-Efficacy: 65.5th percentile. This facet refers to your ability to 'get things done'. You consider yourself prepared to deal with life's challenges successfully. You excel in what you do, and are also capable of smoothly attempting unfamiliar tasks.

(C2) Orderliness: 91.9th percentile. This facet includes how far you prefer order over flexibility. Organisation of your environment and schedule is very important to you. Each item has its place, and you feel less stressed out when things are tidy.

(C3) Dutifulness: 99.5th percentile. This facet includes your reliability. You place a very high value on fulfilling your promises and telling the truth. You always do what you say, and are both dependable and reliable. You are likely to follow even rules that you disagree with.

(C4) Achievement-Striving: 94.5th percentile. This facet includes your will to go beyond what is sufficient. You are very ambitious and set high standards for yourself in what you do. You work very hard to achieve success and are highly motivated. It may be that you neglect other aspects of your life.

(C5) Self-Discipline: 88.5th percentile. This facet includes your motivation to start and complete tasks. Importantly it is distinct from impulsiveness, which measures the impulse to do things that you do not want to do, whereas this facet measures your tendency to not do things that you do want to do.You are very motivated to complete the things that you plan and want to do. You rarely waste time on frivolous endeavours or get distracted, no matter how boring or repititive something is.

(C6) Cautiousness: 94.5th percentile. This facet includes the extent to which you think before acting. You spend more time than most thinking through your actions and their possible consequences before you say or do anything. This means that you rarely find that something you have had time to deliberate on goes wrong, but it can make it difficult to act quickly when it is necessary.


Facet C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
%ile 65.5 91.9 99.5 94.5 88.5 94.5
Extraversion

This trait refers to the extent to which you enjoy company, and seek excitement and stimulation. Approximately 3.5% of respondents have a lower extraversion raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is quiet and somewhat withdrawn. Your answers describe you as someone who doesn't need lots of other people around to have fun, and can sometimes find that people are tiring.

Reflective question: How do you like to spend your spare time?
Facets

(E1) Friendliness: 21st percentile. This facet refers to how you get on with others. You feel less comfortable around other people than some do. This may lead you to act formally for longer than others do upon first meeting someone. It may take you a while to warm to new people.

(E2) Gregariousness: 21st percentile. This facet refers to how much you seek out social situations. You enjoy large gatherings and parties less than most others, although you would still be likely to attend them. Instead you may prefer time alone, or with a few close friends. At parties, you would be more likely to stick to talking to people you know.

(E3) Assertiveness: 0.8th percentile. This facet details your propensity to take charge. You are someone who keeps in the background more than most. You prefer to let others take charge and do the talking. You probably feel uncomfortable in a group when you speak up and everyone looks at you.

(E4) Activity Level: 21st percentile. This facet describes your life's tempo. You are more leisurely than most people. You take life as it comes rather than rushing into trying to do too much at once. You recognise that some things take time, and you are willing to take that time.

(E5) Excitement-Seeking: 8th percentile. This facet includes how much excitement you enjoy in your life. You do not enjoy lots of thrills and mindless recklessness. You may find high-excitement situations either too much, in which case you will avoid them, or simply not that exciting, in which case they do not matter to you.

(E6) Cheerfulness: 42nd percentile. This facet includes how often you feel positive emotions. You feel joyful as much as most others do. Life is generally fun and you love laughing. You generally look on the bright side, but not always.


Facet E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
%ile 21 21 0.8 21 8 42
Agreeableness

This trait refers to the way you express your opinions and manage relationships. Approximately 65.5% of respondents have a lower agreeableness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who people get along with easily. Your responses suggest that you would say you are considerate and friendly, and think that other people are generally honest and decent.

Reflective question: Is your co-operative preference ever taken advantage of by others?
Facets

(A1) Trust: 21st percentile. This facet refers to your view of others' motives. You are more cynical than average of others. You tend to assume that others are more likely to be selfish until you have good reason to think they will act otherwise.

(A2) Morality: 99.7th percentile. This facet concerns your views on the treatment of others. you consider morality to be extremely important and you act that way in your own life. You would not do selfish things at the expense of others even if the advantage for you would far outweigh the disadvantage to another.

(A3) Altruism: 84.1st percentile. This facet includes your concern for the positive wellbeing of others. You are far more likely than is typical to make time to help others, even at the expense of your personal material welfare, because you just enjoy doing it even when you get nothing directly in return.

(A4) Co-operation: 78.8th percentile. This facet describes how you work with others. You are more likely to defer to others rather than risk a confrontation by saying what you think, unless it is important enough to you. You tend to forgive rather than hold a grudge. You enjoy co-operating with others more than competing.

(A5) Modesty: 94.5th percentile. This facet describes how you project your achievements to others. You may actively avoid talking about your achievements as being the centre of attention makes you feel embarrassed. You are very modest and self-effacing.

(A6) Sympathy: 78.8th percentile. This facet measures how others' needs affect you. You are more moved than most by others' appeals for help. You may be swayed by emotional pleas as you sympathise easily with others.

Facet A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6
%ile 21 99.7 84.1 78.8 94.5 78.8
Neuroticism (Emotional stability)

This trait refers to the way you cope with, and respond to, life's demands. Approximately 42% of respondents have a lower neuroticism raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is calm and emotionally stable. Based on your responses, you come across as someone who is rarely bothered by things, and when they do get you down the feeling does not persist for very long.

Reflective question: When do your emotions (or lack of emotions) get in the way of good decision making?
Facets

(N1) Anxiety: 34.5th percentile. This facet measures how prone to worrying you are. You are more relaxed than most and have fewer fears, and so rarely feel nervous except in certain situations that you find most difficult.

(N2) Anger: 11.5th percentile. This facet describes how intensely you get angry or frustrated. You keep your cool and rarely get irritated or angry even in extreme situations. Your temper is under your control. You may avoid complaining about situations that really bother you.

(N3) Depression: 88.5th percentile. This facet represents normal differences in the propensity to feeling negative. You are more likely than most to feel dejected. This happens when the situation warrants it and may also for no discernible reason. This is not necessarily a clinically relevant level, but it may lead to a general feeling that your life has less value than you would like it to have. However, you are in touch with your feelings.

(N4) Self-Consciousness: 65.5th percentile. This facet measures negative feelings caused by being around others. You feel less confident than most in social situations. Generally this is not likely to intimidate you, but you may avoid saying or doing certain things for fear of drawing embarrassing attention on yourself.

(N5) Immoderation: 42nd percentile. This facet includes your propensity to over-indulge. You are as much in control of your urges as other people are. You probably have a weakness that you sometimes succumb to, but this is typical of most people and not likely to be a problem in your life.

(N6) Vulnerability: 16th percentile. This facet details how you deal with setbacks. You find it easier than most to cope when things go wrong. You are likely to be in control of yourself even in an emergency situation when others around you are panicking.

ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

ISTJs thrive on organisation. They keep their lives and environments well-regulated. They bring painstaking attention to detail in their work and will not rest until satisfied with a job well done. ISTJs are faithful, logical, organized, sensible, and earnest traditionalists. They earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Shutting out distractions, they take a practical, logical approach to their endeavors. Realistic and responsible, they work steadily toward their goals. They enjoy creating order in both their professional and personal lives. ISTJs are persons of thoughts and (sometimes) emotions. They prefer dealing with the present and factual, using various options to make decisions.

Based solely on your personality trait scores, the top three closest college major matches for your personality (out of 60 majors and "undecided") are:
#1 Chemistry
#2 Mathematics
#3 Biological Sciences

[TyRockwell]

ESTP

Christian, charismata, non-denominational
Conservative

[Xru]

INFJ: J=1 so I could switch to a P.
Christian
Basically anarchist but too chicken to pony up to all the ugly implications of anarchism.
Open Theist - I couldn't care less if evolution is right or wrong.

This is interesting!

[KingsGambit]

INFJ

Christian
Social conservative, and on other issues, I can't detect any real correlation one way or the other.

[Rushing Jaws]

Introverted (I) 64.71% Extroverted (E) 35.29%
Intuitive (N) 55.88% Sensing (S) 44.12%
Thinking (T) 51.61% Feeling (F) 48.39%
Perceiving (P) 63.33% Judging (J) 36.67%

Your type is: INTP

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.