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Which type has the most trouble controlling their temper?

Which type has the most trouble controlling their temper?

  • ENFJ

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • INFJ

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • ENFP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • INFP

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • ESFJ

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • ISFJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ESFP

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • ISFP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ESTJ

    Votes: 5 20.0%
  • ISTJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ESTP

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • ISTP

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • ENTJ

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • INTJ

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • ENTP

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • INTP

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Total voters
    25

Lily flower

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Which type has the most trouble controlling their temper?
 
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ReflecTcelfeR

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ESxP's. The dominant Se allows them to just go with the immediate flow so if an aspect of that is anger they might be the quickest to let it get out of hand.
 

Zarathustra

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That's a reasonably good answer, but I think TJs are also up there...

Te is a rather forceful function even in neutral circumstances; in more heated circumstances, it just gets worse.
 
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ReflecTcelfeR

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I thought that too, but I didn't really categorize forceful with anger. At least it wouldn't view itself as angry just 'Doing meh job."
 

Thalassa

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Whatever type JTG is, apparently.

How many times can he tell me to burn in hell?
 
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so/sp
Probs es-j e12 sx/sp unhealthies.
 

ajblaise

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ESTJ males and ESFJ females. Right? Do we even have to ask? hmmmm
 
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Especially if she's burped up your butt with a straw.
 

Redbone

Orisha
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9w8
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sx/so
I thought that too, but I didn't really categorize forceful with anger. At least it wouldn't view itself as angry just 'Doing meh job."

Yep, exactly--do the job right or get out of the way and that anger evaporates. Got a ENTJ sister, an ESTJ cousin and friend and I see this with them...it's not personal.

ESFJ--it gets personal. And ugly.
 

EJCC

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sp/so
Yep, exactly--do the job right or get out of the way and that anger evaporates. Got a ENTJ sister, an ESTJ cousin and friend and I see this with them...it's not personal.
:yes: When I can't control my temper, I usually just end up going "JESUS CHRIST WHY AREN'T THINGS WORKING OUT THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW?!? :steam: " When I'm actually mad at someone personally, I'm very very good at keeping a lid on my anger.

Not sure why that is actually. :huh:
 

Amethyst

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MBTI Type
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so/sx
From my own experience, I'm mostly afraid of particular ESFPs because the fact that they can't control what they express when they're angry, and generally seem to be on a roller coaster of emotions (just the ones I know, just reminding). It was the reason why I left college so early last year...I couldn't/didn't know how to deal with it.

Maybe one of them has undiagnosed Tourette's. :shrug:
 

Poki

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My guess would be EJs have the hardest time, its like torture to make them control it. IPs have the most control. Percieved loss of control is a decision on my part and is apparent as I can stop at the drop of a hat. EP and IJ are in the middle.

In my experience EJs are the type most likely to break something because of losing control of their temper.
 

Savage Idealist

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I'd have to say it's a tie between ESFP and ESFJ, the former from a congnitive function perspective, the latter from real life experince. My reason for ESFP is that such an individual leads with a here and now method of thinking (Se) and thus more likely to act first, fueled by Fi, which by nature is more emotioanl than Fe. Then again, my sister can have a foul temper when someone gets on her wrong side, and I'm fairly certain that she's ESFJ (I've also seen example of angry tempered ESFJ's in fiction), which is odd considering that Fe is suppose to be about group harmony, valuing social norms, and whatnot.
 

Such Irony

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:steam:IXTPs in their inferior Fe episodes.
 

rav3n

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From typed (in other words, have been tested) individuals in real life, ESFJ women. They can`t seem to help themselves, no matter how hard they try.
 

skylights

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my ESFJ mom is actually pretty controlled with her temper. so is one of my very close ESFJ friends. :shrug:
 

Kasper

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so/sx
Enneagram 8s.
 

Thalassa

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Yep, ESFJs can control their temper because of Fe, pending on their sense of propriety and where they feel comfortable expressing themselves, because they're less likely to just express wherever.

Unlike my ESFP mom, who once felt compelled to kick a screen door in when I was around 8 years old.

I would tend to think ESFPs have more problem with this, followed by ExTJs, then ENFPs, and then, only then, ESFJs and ENFJs.
 
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