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Are you always the same type?
Or, they may have been suppressing their basic personality as a survival mechanism, or to comply with external constraints. Once these are gone or the situation allows, they can "relax" into their true personality.I have successfully changed tastes, habits, and my viewpoint on various matters, but I don't think I can change my core personality. It hasn't changed since I was very young, so I see no reason why it would change in the future.
It makes me wonder if people who say they can change and have changed their type are essentially putting on a mask, and suppressing their basic personality.
About stability of personality(measured first as kids, then 40 years later) according to big 5:
"At one extreme is Extraversion, followed closely by Conscientiousness, both of which demonstrate statistically significant links between childhood and adulthood, no matter the type of methodological procedure that is used to analyze those traits. At the other extreme, is Neuroticism, followed closely by Agreeableness, neither of which displays significant longitudinal stabilities over this long time period. In the middle, is the somewhat motley construct of Openness, which tends to provide statistically significant stability correlations, albeit at a much reduced level than that of Extraversion."
A First Large-Cohort Study of Personality-Trait Stability Over the 40 Years Between Elementary School and Midlife
Correlations between MBTI and big 5:
extraversion = E
conscientiousness = J
agreeableness = F
openness = N
Neuroticism = none in MBTI.
So the conclusion:
I/E doesent change. F types learn to use their T over time(and the other way around) and therefore move a bit on big 5 scale to other direction. N types learn to use their S over time a bit(and the other way around), so they move on the big 5 scale a bit but not much, i would suspect that its because T/F being judging functions and thus more over control of will, so it changes easier. J/P doesent change, that would fuck up the I/E of the functions.
= MBTI type doesent change, but people learn to develop their functions, T/F more than N/S.
[MENTION=15392]AffirmitiveAnxiety[/MENTION]
Interesting. So that would make me an ISTP since I scored low on everything except neuroticism when I did the BBC website big 5 test from Child of Our Time. If of course we went with just that one test as a representation.
Although I get the point about integration of lesser aware and used aspects I still regard the Big Five as a flexible tool compared with the rigidity of MBTI as it is most commonly interpreted.