um...
I've been having a little problem with my own personality; for times I've been regularly checking my personality (in a sense of "ooh what am I now?") and the result is I keep swaying between INFJ and INFP. Of course, the percentage is rather borderline (40-60% max) but...
um...I understand that human personality always change, and that my mood, feelings, other mental and emotional functions changes everytime and it might affect the result of the test but the thing I'm wondering is:
Is it good to have this kind of personality? What should I do with this?
I've read the recently made
INFJ / INFP Distinction and had begun to read INFJorINFP.com but I still want to know what caused the change (especially in oneself)..
Although I understand your frustration, I think it's totally normal to find more than one possibility fitting, especially with borderlines.
Personally, I'm borderline on the T/F and J/P functions (literally 50/50) and very close on the E/I and N/S functions (although there is a bit more of a spread there).
I agree with the assessment that the test is not accurate. Depending on how you feel on any given day, you might answer radically differently. Circumstances in your life might cause even inferior functions to leap to the surface, thereby skewing your test results.
In the extreme scenario, one might even ask if there IS an accurate test result possible for such a complex mind as the human mind....
I often sway between the ENFJ/ENFP result. Depending on the test, I might even get INFP. All of these results seem highly accurate for me at one point or another, though the ENFJ/ENFP dichotomy seems more realistic.
The reason for this stems from Judging function's necessity to have closure (what am I, damn it?!) to Perception's openness (am I really that?)
Having balanced J/P can lead to other dichotomies as well, particularly if your cognitive functions are also close. (Take a look at my signature, where there is only a 5.2 spread between my second-highest and second-lowest function). This leads me, for example, to exhibit radically different behavior (where totally different cognitive functions are expressed) in different situations, where one could analyze my behavior really only on a situational basis.
However, if you take a look at the cognitive functions again, you'll see that my Ne triumphs over everything. This narrows the scale down to two choices: ENFP and ENTP, where ENFP is probably the most logical option. Reason being that ENTPs exhibit high Ti, not necessarily high Te, and my high T score comes primarily (though not exclusively) from higher Te (although my Ti score is also decent).
So it may help to look at different sources to determine your type (for example, cognitive functions test), especially if you are so close and relate to both type descriptions equally on a situational basis, unable to make a decision on your general behavior...
If you happen to test very high Fi/Ne, you probably lean more towards INFP. If you score relatively high Ni/Fe, you're probably more INFJ. You can also look at descriptions of cognitive functions and see which ones fit more to your personality. For me, it's by far Ne/Fi/Te, and that's how I know I must be ENFP and not ENFJ.
Most ENFJs, INFJs and other types tend to concur as well - I could never be an Fe dom....