INxx positively correlated with vulnerability to depression?

**benr3600** · 10-31-2011, 01:18 PM

Would this be safe to say? Does anybody have any sources that examine the correlation between personality traits and diathesis for it?

**Polymath20** · 10-31-2011, 01:53 PM

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I think the primary challenge is being introverted, yet being a social animal. It's like disliking food, even though you need it. I'd say this problem exists as a spectrum, with some introverts being more content to be alone than others. I'm on the other end of introversion... I like people and friends and such, but only in small doses.

Also, introverts ARE more sensitive (think of the lemon test) and so that could conceivably correlate with being more emotionally fragile.

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This represents a physiological response, even though they are not exactly related (taste versus introversoin)

**benr3600** · 10-31-2011, 03:21 PM

Not a single INTJ mentioned in that study? That's rather odd, considering how (disproportionately) common we are on the internets, both in a poll I took at a forum that has nothing to do with personality, and MBTI tests I've given to random people on Omegle over the last couple years. 17% INFJ, 0% INTJ, a stark disparity between the two least frequent types in the general population.

At least one thing that "study" suggests, is that depression and intellectual feeler-types are highly correlated. I guess I'll take that.

**Wilyoldtrout** · 10-31-2011, 04:45 PM

I've suspected this for a while. Reassuring to see that someone else thinks so too.

10-31-2011, 01:18 PM	#1
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Polymath20 Core Member [428%] MBTI: ENTP Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 17,154	To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I think the primary challenge is being introverted, yet being a social animal. It's like disliking food, even though you need it. I'd say this problem exists as a spectrum, with some introverts being more content to be alone than others. I'm on the other end of introversion... I like people and friends and such, but only in small doses. Also, introverts ARE more sensitive (think of the lemon test) and so that could conceivably correlate with being more emotionally fragile. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. This represents a physiological response, even though they are not exactly related (taste versus introversoin)
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10-31-2011, 03:21 PM	#3
benr3600 Member [28%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,131	Not a single INTJ mentioned in that study? That's rather odd, considering how (disproportionately) common we are on the internets, both in a poll I took at a forum that has nothing to do with personality, and MBTI tests I've given to random people on Omegle over the last couple years. 17% INFJ, 0% INTJ, a stark disparity between the two least frequent types in the general population. At least one thing that "study" suggests, is that depression and intellectual feeler-types are highly correlated. I guess I'll take that.
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10-31-2011, 04:45 PM	#4
Wilyoldtrout New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 19	I've suspected this for a while. Reassuring to see that someone else thinks so too.
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