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ENFJ
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ENFJ (Extraversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judgement) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of 16 personality types. The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types. Jung proposed a psychological typology based on the theories of cognitive functions that he developed through his clinical observations.

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Contents
  • The MBTI instrument
  • ENFJ characteristics
  • Type description
  • Correlation with Enneatype
  • Cognitive functions
  • Dominant: Extraverted feeling (Fe)
  • Auxiliary: Introverted intuition (Ni)
  • Tertiary: Extraverted sensing (Se)
  • Inferior: Introverted thinking (Ti)
  • Shadow functions
  • References
  • External links

ENFJ (Extraversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judgement) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of 16 personality types. The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types. Jung proposed a psychological typology based on the theories of cognitive functions that he developed through his clinical observations.

From Jung's work, others developed psychological typologies. Jungian personality assessments include the MBTI assessment, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, developed by David Keirsey. Keirsey referred to ENFJs as Teachers, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Idealists. ENFJs account for about 2–5% of the population.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ENFJ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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