Understanding personality type: How it relates to job satisfaction

Clarifying your type

Although the different preferences have been laid out separately up to now, in reality they exist as part of a whole type, and their expression depends on how they interact with the other preferences. There are several approaches to clarifying type, the first of which is to look at the type table and read the brief descriptions of the types that contain the preferences you have identified. So if you think you prefer extraversion, intuition, thinking, and perceiving, check ENTP, plus the types that are close to it. If you are not quite sure about extraversion, for example, you might like to check out INTP as well, or if you think youre borderline between thinking and feeling, then check ENFP.

A second method of clarifying type is to look at the dominant functions for the types you relate to. In each type described in the type table, one of the two central preferences (N/S and T/F) is dominant, and is written in bold. This represents what that type does best, and is always expressed in the extrovert or introvert mode, depending on which of these is preferred. For example, the dominant function of an ISTJ is introverted sensing, and the dominant function of an …