Self-Actualization
The four distinct small groups within a category and their psychological implications for personality typing.
Small Group Analysis
Small groups represent the intersection of four personality types that share common characteristics. Each group reveals fundamental patterns in how types process information, make decisions, and interact with the world.
Category's Small Groups
Creating
Group Description
Well-suited for understanding the objective laws of the surrounding world and for designing and creating tools to transform nature. Straightforwardness, an inability to scheme, a weak capacity to recognize enemies and friends, to seduce, charm, or manipulate rumors — but also an unwillingness to tolerate injustice and a strongly negative attitude toward any form of violence or suppression of individuality by the group. Tend to demonstrate high abilities in technological development and scientific inquiry.
High demand field
Science and craftsmanship
Competing
Group Description
Well-suited for implementing and pushing through one's ideas, deploying technologies, and managing people for objective goals. Characterized by a high level of self-control, the ability to endure pain and punishment, tolerance of surrounding cruelty, lies, and injustice, cold indifference to the suffering of others, cruelty toward opponents in a nothing personal manner, a tendency to devalue others' values, and often — nihilism, a disbelief in anything at all except money and power.
High demand field
Business and government construction
Intriguing
Group Description
Well-suited for social manipulation, pitting different interests against each other, and building informal social groups. Increased irritability, touchiness, jealousy, pride, a tendency to look for someone to blame, poisonous emotions, dissatisfaction with the world and life, a sharp insight into the intrigues of others, a love of gossip, and often also a tendency toward behind-the-scenes manipulation of people—pulling secret strings, imposing emotions and moral imperatives.
High demand field
Social life
Supporting
Group Description
Focusing on empathy. It emphasizes caring for loved ones, friendliness, humanitarian interests: helping those in need, caring for nature. Compromising nature, conciliatoriness, trustfulness, inability to say no, willingness to sacrifice one's own interests for the sake of calming a situation, caring attitude toward others, active altruism (especially toward specific individuals rather than people in general.
High demand field
Family life