Does your MBTI®️ type ever change?

Can your Myers-Briggs® personality type change over the course of your life? It's a common question and Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson, Senior Consultant at The Myers-Briggs Company, discusses why people might think their personality type has changed as they better understand themselves and mature. She also shares her own experience of how her upbringing influenced her perception of her personality type as well as later understanding more about true personality type.

[Twinkie]

Mine went from INFP to INTJ. I think traumatic experiences have changed me. I don't mind the changes, but they are absolutely there.

[mariambensamad]

my mbti changes really often, for example during my really depressing adolescence period i was an ISFP, then when i decided to change and get better, i became a social butterfly, very confident of myself i became an ESTP. In a stressing period of school, i was full of tests and i used to stay up the whole night to study bc the only thing that i cared about were my grades, i took the test and i became an ISTJ. School finished, i started going out with some friends like every day and i hated it, things happened with some friends, i started doubting myself, hating everyone, thinking that i'm not enough ecc.. so i became an ISFP again. After weeks of depression i became selfish, intimate, never going out, 24/24 on my phone, not having the energy to do nothing ecc. i'm an INTP right now. Anyways i think that it's normal that the test changes, bc we constantly change the envoirement that we're in changes us and it's impossibile that it doesn't affect us at all. I always try to take the test fairly, i answer the question with what i really feel like in that period of my life and i think this is a great thing to see how we change.

[VisibleMRJ]

I'm such a MBTI geek that I'm only the second person who watches this video. I feel like I should get a prize or something.

[lefranctireur]

I went from INFP to ENFP in only two/three years and to INTP in only one year.

[janellelafond]

Yes, it can be situational. My understanding is that teenagers aren't MBTI assessed, as they often will respond with what they think they should be, instead of who they are. Further, I think some people adapt to either family or work dynamics and indicate preferences that aren't who they are. If your corporate culture primarily values NTs, for example, folks may feel pressure to be NTs, because there's payoff in that. (then, they go home and drink or some other coping behavior). I'm so glad that in grad school, we were taught to assess via, MBTI, SII, values and skills inventories.

[Nnn_k]

When I first did my mbti test it revealed an INFJ personality type, I was 15 and had a lot to deal with form childhood trauma that caused a people pleasing attitude, as I got older I figured that I’m not an INFJ, in fact all my tests revealed an INTJ personality type, I don’t know of that’s possible but it happened

[Dark_Slayer]

I took the test in Feb 2020 I was an INFJ I took it occasionally after a few months I was only INFJ, after 2 years this day June 14 2022 I am now an INTJ

[castorfiesprofei]

I watch this because, when I took the personality test, (year 2017) 3x test all results was ISFJ. And today I took again the test. This time I took 5x because I can't believe that all results are INTJ...in the end I'm still introvert and that will never change.

[shybot]

I went from INFJ to INTJ. So, i don't have emotions anymore

[genteelcowgirl]

I can relate so much to this! I changed from extroversion as a young girl, to introversion & my enviroment played a big part in that.

[celiar]

Here’s what happened with me. So I’m definitely an introvert and a feeler, but for the others I get 52 and 48, so this leaves me with four options, infj, infp, isfp, and isfj, I’ve gotten infj the most but I guess I’m like a isnfpj! Hahahaha

[linawangz]

every time i take the test it keeps changing 😭🗿

[modernmedeamedia]

Of course someone who represents the The Myers-Briggs Company is going to say it doesn't change, because that would make the test itself unnecessary and invalid for long term psychological evaluation, and wouldn't that loose a lot of money from all those people taking the online test? What a joke. The Psych community (you know those with actual degrees in the science of human psychology) have made MANY valid criticisms of this test and studies have shown that people OFTEN get a different type results on retest.

[irishapao]

BEFORE TAKING THE TEST I'M ISFJ AND NOW I'M ENFJ-A AS PEOPLE GROW OLD THE WAY WE THINK AND OUR perspectives ALSO CHANGE AND YOUR EXPERIENCE IN LIFE AND YOU THOUGHTS BECOME MORE DEEPER AND YOU UNDERSTAND IT MORE IN DEEPER UNDERSTANDING

[barbaradps]

I was VERY ENFP when I was in primary school like I went to random other children and asked them like « WANNA PLAY WITH ME? » and one of my two ENFP friends right now literally just reminded me one week ago that SHE was the « lonely student » and that I came to her and asked her to play with me. 😂 Today, after a couple of events I think like my parents breaking up, getting lost in the wood and loosing my ex-best friend after she suddenly started to bully me (I became cold and defensive after 1 week and a half and she stopped bullying because I KINDA threatened her in specific ways that could never get ME in trouble but that would scare her) and also the ✨ pandemic ✨ I became INTJ. Really, observing my own behaviours and comparing them to before, I’m most definitely an INTJ like literally though I still remember stuff from my childhood that kind of made me an INTJ like I would ask questions that weren’t « childlike » at all as « What’s beyond the sky? » (Ok yes this one might be kind of) or « What’s infinity? » I mean I don’t know… Not your usual type of child like questions and I also loved learning though I still kind of remember being scared of socializing which now that I think of it is very ironic if I was ENFP…? Unless I went like INTP(1-5 years old)->ENFP(6-10 years old)-> INFJ (11-12 years old) -> INTJ (13- Now/Forever~long time)…? Probably something like that but yeah that’s childhood and teenage years, where we change mostly so I think now I’m permanently INTJ or at least for all the time of my studies. Funny how I went from Extrovert to introvert 😂

[jonathanrogers]

Went from istj, infj to ENFP-T 12 years

[ponraul]

I’ve test as INTP a few times before, but I also have ADHD. I’m wondering if I’m fundamentally a INTJ if I was normal.

[LeenAwad-mf]

i always got INTJ however i really don’t like this type and whenever i see people with it i don’t feel deeply that this is me.
i started digging into this type instead of myself and truly got so unhealthy programs in my head about who i think i am, i stopped showing out my emotions like i used to do, i even stopped having creative thoughts, they went all dry and superficial, i started paying attention on very little details, i lost paying attention to deeper details and i became more a lazy thinker, my thoughts were ruined completely.

recently im fixing all of this but i still feel somehow that there’s a BUNCH of excitement and anger inside of me, i really want to talk to everyone and be social but still not convinced that i’m not INTJ somehow, and that’s what i think i really am.
i realized that i was always quiet just because my mother and teachers told me that when i moved to a new school, it’s okay maybe they didn’t understand that i was just feeling uncomfortable, because honestly im only calm at school “the place where they told me im always silent”

also i was always told that im like my dad who is ENTJ because my shape is so similar to his, while i don’t feel that we have similar personality.

[iamsomeone]

mine went from INTJ to INFP due to bad experiences and life rlly kicking me in the neck

[kimvang]

Is it fair to say that a normal person has 75% of whatever trait makes up their MBTI personality type — for example an INFP would on average be 75% I, N, F and P respectively — and as we mature, perhaps through ambition and experience, we balance more out at say 60% of the respective traits — and that environmental factors such as traumatic experiences can have us go 90%+ on certain traits which manifests as personality disorders?