Thread: Could being adopted be an explaination of some of our behaviors

There's more to it than whether or not you were adopted.

What is your personality type result, when you completed the Meyers-Briggs Type Personality test?

Originally Posted by Trouble

There's more to it than whether or not you were adopted.

What is your personality type result, when you completed the Meyers-Briggs Type Personality test?

Don't know if this is that type of test but this one is not very good IMO.


http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78 38 12 11

You are:
very expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed judging personality

Yes, I know you don't like this test, Foreman. You've voiced that opinion elsewhere. Nonetheless, its stood the test of time as a useful personality trait diagnostic tool.

Let me build my argument here.

HAN, flesh out the description for each of the letters, would you please?

We need to draw out certain behavioral traits.

Originally Posted by Trouble

Yes, I know you don't like this test, Foreman. You've voiced that opinion elsewhere. Nonetheless, its stood the test of time as a useful personality trait diagnostic tool.

Let me build my argument here.

It is very simple and just basically asks 4-5 of the same questions over and over again. I think a test more in depth would be much more effective in judging a personality. I would have to spend hours/days/months/years looking into other tests and research to find other options....doubt I will do that.

As for the adoption issue, I know many people who were adopted. The biggest factor in how that effects them is their adopted parents. How they were told, how they were loved, how the outer family reacted to them....ect...ect...ect. Plus I also think genetics play a big role in personality.

This goes beyond the situation of adoption. It also includes loosing access to special bonding between mother and offspring at a very young age, by abadonment, mental illness, divorce or by death.

I agree, there is a role for gene expression in the development of certain personality traits, Foreman. And yes, it does matter if there was a surrogate family, particularly a surrogate mother type (could also be an aunt or grandparent who acted in place of a missing mother).

There is an equally strong case for later childhood bonding issues with fathers. We need to discuss that influence separately.

We're interested in the physiochemistry that results from prenatal maternal status first.

i also do not know how my mother ate or what her habits where while I was still in the oven. One guy I know his mother smoked and drank like a feene during his term and Drs for over 25 years just labled him as depression and wrote him off as being depressed. I suggested that he go to a good endocrinologist and it was found that he had estrogen domaince, low normal testosterone, and thyroid was barely functioning, elevated insulin levels. As soon as he told me his lipid levels thyroid was first thing to come to mind, but that was dr job to determine. Could the toxic fact of his pregenency cause of this that is only speculative, but I know cadnium is found in cigarettes and can wreck havoc on the endocrine system.

Recent (2003-2006) biomedical studies using animal models and surveys of mothers of ADD/sutism/anxiety/OCD and social deficit disorder children suggest that there is a relationship between impaired offspring response to stress (blunted cortisol and elevated baselines) and maternal stress in utero and in early infancy. Males offspring were found to have low cholesterol and testosterone levels (animal models).

ADHD has been correlated to prenatal exposure to nicotine and alcohol by mothers (many recent studies). Its not the cadmium in cigarette smoke.

It most likely the imparied glutathione production in neonates and their mothers from exposure to environmental toxins (cigarettes and alcohol), analogous to stress conditions also shown to cause similar behavioral disorders.

very interesting my cholesterol from birth has been below 150 and when I was high school I never carried a book or wrote any notes barely studied, fell alseep in class and had 3.5 GPA with incredible photograph memory Teachers accused me of cheating they did everything to catch me, but never did because I never cheated. I could take such a complex task in biological aspect and have answer before any one else I alsoo did well on essays, but when it came to long diagnostic test such as Cat and SAT test I would over think the problem and get frustrated very easy. My sat were only 700 in both, but I was in top 5% of my class no one could figure that one out. I used to get beat up every day with black an blue marks over my arms from playing "six inches" trouble you remembers that game) and if i did not play I usually ended up with being stuck in a locker for hours. I was locked in a locker for almost 2 hours before some one let me out. Looking back it was kind of funny. So when it came to stress mentally I would crack and have anxiety attacks, but phyiscally i would out perform any one. Still to this day i still flinch when people move to fast and to close to me. Its like my body goes into flight or flight mood. i did not speak untill age of 3 so i had a learning disablility and went to special schools to correct it, plus i always had sensitivity and still do to loud noises. information you provided is very intriquing.

You would find it more intriging to read in PubMed by doing some searching on terms like ADHD and prenatal maternal stress.

Or try this out:

http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocum...er_syndro.html

Originally Posted by ForemanRules

It is very simple and just basically asks 4-5 of the same questions over and over again. I think a test more in depth would be much more effective in judging a personality. I would have to spend hours/days/months/years looking into other tests and research to find other options....doubt I will do that.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the most popular objective personality test in psychology.
I'm currently writing an essay comparing it against the Rorsechach Inkblot Test. The research on all the personality tests is very inconsistent but they are still used frequently by clinicians.

Originally Posted by pengers84

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the most popular objective personality test in psychology.
I'm currently writing an essay comparing it against the Rorsechach Inkblot Test. The research on all the personality tests is very inconsistent but they are still used frequently by clinicians.

Yes but remember psychology is a joke.