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In this episode, Joel and Antonia discuss one of the most commonly asked questions, “Is personality type related to ADHD?” by highlighting research, statistics, and numbers showing correlations between psychological types and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
| Study Breakdown |
Study Breakdown |
| ADHD | ADD |
| ENFP (17.44 %) | ENFP (23.53 %) |
| ESFP (13.95 %) | ESFJ (17.65 %) |
| ESFJ (12.79 %) | ESFP (14.71 %) |
| ISFP (9.30 %) | INFP (11.76 %) |
| INFP (6.98 %) | ISFP (11.76 %) |
| ENFJ (6.98 %) | ENFJ (8.82 %) |
| ISTP (5.81 %) | INFJ (5.88 %) |
| ISFJ (4.65 %) | ISFJ (2.94 %) |
| ESTJ (4.65 %) | INTP (2.94 %) |
| ESTP (4.65 %) | ENTJ (0.0 %) |
| INFJ (3.49 %) | INTJ (0.0 %) |
| ISTJ (3.49 %) | ESTJ (0.0 %) |
| INTP (2.33 %) | ISTJ (0.0 %) |
| ENTJ (1.16 %) | ISTP (0.0 %) |
| INTJ (1.16 %) | ESTP (0.0 %) |
| ENTP (1.16 %) | ENTP (0.0 %) |
Studies referred to in comments (added to over time):
The Relationship of Personality Style and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children
In this podcast you’ll find:
- Is there a correlation between ADHD or ADD and personality types?
- Are there enough studies for this topic?
- What the MILO database system has to offer.
- The study on the relationship between ADHD, ADD and personality type.
- What does the DSM-5 say about ADHD and ADD?
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Which types are most likely to have ADHD?
- Why are Joel and Antonia surprised by which type is highest on the list?
- The big spread Joel and Antonia’s types have from each other.
- Why did all the Introverted Feeling (xxFP) types and 2 Extroverted Feeling (xxFEJ) types land high on the list?
- Why are the NT (xNTx) types grouped together?
- What cognitive functions and David Kiersey’s type temperaments have to do with the results.
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Which types are most likely to have ADD?
- The drastic split between Feelers and Thinkers.
- Is there a divide with Sensors and Intuitives?
- Why a large group of types report 0% ADD.
- Which types correlate with the ADHD list?
- Does Extraverted Exploration (Ne – Exploration) have a role in ADHD or ADD?
- The surprise cognitive function that is most correlated with both ADHD and ADD.
- What is the other cognitive function landing high on the list?
- How the cognitive function positions in the car model matter here.
- Why IxTPs are outliers in the study.
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The effects of learning environments:
- Do some people have ADHD or ADD or just a different learning style?
- Real struggles people experience with their learning environments.
- Article by Daniel Foster on educational environments and type needs.
- What are the challenges in discovering type preferences in children?
- How can we tell if behavior is from type needs not being met vs ADHD and ADD?
- Why we need to use these findings to support children better.
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The imperative changes we need to make for types high on the list:
- Giving FPs (xxFPs) what they absolutely need.
- Allowing SPs (xSxPs) to be as they are.
- Letting Extraverted Feeling (Fe – Harmony) Dominants thrive in their way.
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36 comments
I am 27 years old and have often thought I have undiagnosed ADHD and my mind has just been blown by this podcast as I’m an ENFP! I’m a preschool teacher so loved how you talked about education and equality for the type of children who just don’t conform to the system! We need to make our classrooms work for the child not the child work for the classroom.
Thank you for tackling this topic that can be very tricky. I am (I think) an INFP who was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago at the age of 27. Unlike the anonymous person who posted, I do believe ADHD exists, but I wonder if it should be classified as a disorder or simply a different brain wiring. As the podcast hinted at, our societal systems, particularly schools, are not set up for the ADHD brain wiring. So if they are allowed to do what they do best, people with ADHD wouldn’t feel disordered like we do now. There is one theory out there by Thom Hartman, the Hunter/Farmer theory, that says that ADHD folks are descended from the people who were really good at hunting, where being distracted can help you track down prey, and the neurotypical folks are descended from the farmer types, where routine and steadiness is rewarded. Any ADHDers resonate with this idea?
Still haven’t understood fully how ADHD interacts with my MBTI type, but I’m excited to look into it.
Read my comment below. The “discoverer” of ADHD said it is a fictitious disease. I believe it is meant to suppress individuality, the innate intuition and lie detector, curiosity and questioning, and high IQ and unique genius in children, by the doctor giving them a false diagnosis of ADHD, and then prescribing pharmaceutical drugs to drug them into a low-IQ zombie-like stupor to make them into obedient unquestioning absorbers of educational system lies, and then the perfect obedient servants for the corporations owned by the ruling elites, once they reach adulthood.
For anyone interested check out “ADHD in 28 minutes” on youtube, it’s really spot on with it’s description.
I’m pretty sure I have it and so do both my kids. One thing the Doctor notes that’s not on the diagnostic criteria of diagnosing ADHD is that people he has found with it, can have emotional outburst of anger. I’m short tempered when it comes to people bothering me when I do concentrate on something. I found this to be self reported by other INTJ’s when reading especially.
Peace be upon you
Just wanted to share something with you
I suspect that the name Antonia originally come from the arabic word fittnah فطنة (don’t miss the double tt!) Which translate as acumen
So if he is mr. Witt, and she is acumen, then little wonder for the great content