INFPs are classically conflict-avoidant. You're both sensitive and empathetic, trying your best to avoid hurt and avoid inflicting pain on others. Make no mistake: Your heart is your greatest strength.
Introversion and the Avoiding Conflict-handling Mode
Across the eight Introverted types from the MBTI® assessment, the avoiding mode was the highest scoring mode for those with ISTJ, ISFJ, ISTP, ISFP, and INTP preferences. For INFJ, INTJ, and INFP types, the avoiding mode was second highest.
“A conflict-avoidant personality is a type of people-pleasing behavior where someone avoids conflict or disagreements at all costs and fears making others upset or angry,” explains Babita Spinelli, a psychotherapist licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Florida.
INTJ. INTJs will often avoid conflict, especially if they feel like it is a waste of their energy.
INTJs are the best in formulating arguments whereas INTPs only enjoy arguing when the subject matter interests them. ENTJ/ENTPs though seem to enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing, but the latter can really start an argument in an empty room.
According to the MBTI® Manual ENTJs are the type least likely to suppress anger and least likely to show anger.
The ISFP. These types tend to have varying responses to anger. According to the MBTI® Manual, they are the type most likely to get angry and show it, as well as the type most likely to get angry and not show it.
The ENFP. Possibility-oriented and caring, ENFPs often feel a need to get alone with their emotions in order to analyze and ascertain their deeper meaning. More engaged with ideas than emotions, ENFPs can feel compelled to ignore their emotions and focus on abstractions and flights of ideas instead.
Additionally, immature ISFPs may become highly sensitive to criticism and take everything personally. Instead of balancing their feeling and thinking sides, these ISFPs tend to believe that whatever they feel is the ultimate truth.
Perhaps the most sensitive of all the personality types, INFJs take it hard when someone they trust lets them down. They tend to hold on to anger longer than they should and are capable of holding a grudge even when the other person has apologized, repeatedly, for their wrongdoing.
Our research tells us that personality types with the Thinking, Extraverted, and Assertive traits are more likely than others to choose to fight. At its core, fighting is an expression of dominance, of the need to make our will supreme.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of intense and unstable interpersonal relationships, distorted sense of self, and strong emotional reactions.
ISFJs, ISTJs, ESFJs, ESTJs, and Risk-Taking
Sensing-Judgers are the personality types that are the least willing to take risks. They enjoy having consistency and structure in their lives and they tend to act only after they have carefully analyzed all the details and feel totally prepared.
ISTP personality types are calm, efficient and productive, and are open to new opportunities. This introduction to the ISTP personality type, based on the Myers-Briggs® Step I personality assessment, can help ISTPs to understand how they interact with others, and what careers they might enjoy.
ISTJ. ISTJs are vigilant, cautious and wary of risk, which means there's zero chance of them doing anything that could cause permanent damage to their body!
INTJs often hide their vulnerable or emotional side behind a mask of stoicism. They are the types to let their behavior speak for them, rather than put their feelings into words.
INFJ personalities are often seen as those quiet, sensitive types who are easily upset and seem to take everything personally.
INTJs are often misunderstood simply because there are so few of them around. Making up only 2.1% of the US population, they understand the world in a fundamentally different way than most other types. While the rest of the world looks first to tangible data, INTJs follow symbols and underlying meanings first.
INFJ personality types are known for being chameleons. Part of this is our strong extraverted feeling function, which allows us to immediately pick up on the emotions and moods of others, and then mirror their emotional state back to them.
INTP: Pushes Anger Away
“The Architect” type, INTP, will avoid talking to others when they're angry. These personality types will suppress their emotions. Because INTPs aren't great at handling their feelings or the emotions of others, it's easier for them to forget about it, push it away, and move on.
INTPs are the least loving personality type. That doesn't mean they don't love, it just means they aren't very expressive about their love and they show it differently than other types. INTPs are known for being logical and analytical people.
The MBTI Personality Inventory
Being an INFJ comes with its advantages, but also its drawbacks. Lovable INFJs experience the same pain, struggles, and difficult emotions that others do—they often choose to do so in secret. This tendency may contribute to depression.
We start off with INFPs and INFJs: two Introverted personalities that often experience bouts of anxiety. When it comes to these types, their anxiety can stem from an inclination to overthinking.
The two types with the highest scores were INTJ and INFJ, among the most reserved, independent, self-disciplined types. The four types with the lowest score were the four Experiencers – ESTP, ISTP, ESFP and ISFP.