INFJ

INFJ (Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging) is one of the sixteen personality types from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

The MBTI tool is comprised of multiple choice questions that sort respondents on the basis of four "dichotomies" (pairs of psychological opposites). Sixteen different outcomes are possible, each of which is identified by its own four-letter "code," referred to by initial letters. The MBTI is approximately 70% accurate per its own manual.


 * I - Introversion preferred to Extraversion
 * N - iNtuition preferred to Sensing
 * F - Feeling preferred to Thinking
 * J - Judging preferred to show the Outer World

According to Keirsey, INFJs belong to the temperament of the idealists and are called Counselors.

MBTI cognitive functions
The attributes of each personality type form a hierarchy. This represents the person's "default" pattern of behavior in their day to day life. The Dominant function is the personality type's preferred role, the task they feel most comfortable with. The Auxiliary function is the role they feel the next most comfortable with. It serves to support and expand on the Dominant function. One of these first two will always be an information gathering function (Sensing or, in the INFJ case, Intuiting) and the other will be a decision making function (Thinking or, in the INFJ case, Feeling). The Tertiary function is less developed than the Dominant and Auxiliary functions, but tends to develop in mid-life; it provides roundness of ability (in the INFJ case, development of Thinking as a decision making function). The Inferior function (Sensing) is the personality type's Achilles' heel and may be most evident under stress. This is the function they are least comfortable with. Like the Tertiary function, the Inferior function usually becomes more stable with maturity.


 * Dominant Introverted Intuition (Ni)
 * Auxiliary Extraverted Feeling (Fe)
 * Tertiary Introverted Thinking (Ti)
 * Inferior Extraverted Sensing (Se)