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Originally Posted by athenian200
I'm not so sure that it does always work. For instance, I identify most strongly with the Melancholic temperment, and Keirsey assigns that to SJ thinking. I thought for a long time that I was an SJ, because I was so concerned with following rules, and doing what my teachers expected of me.
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Usually the Melancholic temperament has been assigned to the SJ archetype in early personality systems (I'm thinking of LaHaye's sort of hackneyed job back in the 1970's). I like Keirsey's four archetypes much better than the humours, they seem to be more accurate clusters or at least include more people within their umbrellas.
Yes, based on what you said, I would come up with INFJ (the N) ... there are similarities to ISFJ, except for the fact that the structures are arbitrary to you. This is a huge difference between ISFJ and INFJ; I find that there is lots of overlap behavior-wise, but in terms of perception and they approach the intrinsic value of structure and rules, they are very much different.
(Si, if it believes in the structure, sees it as the Ideal and you obey simply because it's the "best world" and other things are not true; Ni sees a multiplicity of structure, and the rules are rather arbitrary, being followed only when they are appropriate or have value. The value comes from the person and the value they PLACE on the rules, not from the rules themselves.)
... btw, i was playing around today and looked at the Chinese Zodiac link in your sig. I am a Female Water / Black Rabbit. Woo hoo.