Accepting MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Accepting? Accepting is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 9w1 - so/sx - 927 in Enneagram, SCUAI in Big 5, IEE in Socionics.
It feels wrong to type just a single MBTI as the "accepting" one, because there are tons of MBTI types that could easily be considered accepting. As a general rule of thumb, I'd regard ExFx types as the most accepting within reason, but it can even apply to types outside that range. However, I entirely understand why ENFP is the consensus here. A lot of people misrepresent Fi as being a rather egocentric function (which is fair, given that it's rooted in personal emotions rather than the emotions of others). But, if it's used in a healthy and developed way, Fi is much more focused on the underlying ethics and morality of a situation than any other function, which often leads to healthy Fi usage making for very fair and principled people. Fe is more "transparently" accepting as a function, but the utilitarian mindset implied by Fe decision making means that Fe users would have more trouble accepting people who go against the norm. A well developed Fi user can, if they feel it is right to, learn to accept just about anyone within reason, even those who do not conform to the needs of the group. This is greatly helped by having a dominant Ne function, a function which is rooted in forming wide ranges of perspectives for a single problem and comprehending things without needing to directly perceive them. Being led by dominant Ne with the help of auxillary Fi means that ENFPs would typically express this form of open-ended thinking and problem solving when it comes to people and ethics, which inevitably would make them rather accepting people. At first, looking at ENFP as the consensus felt like it was a bit of a stereotype (while I am an ENFP and I'd like to think of myself as an accepting person, I've personally known some very judgemental ENFPs). However, there is actual basis in the cognitive functions here; leading with the open ended thinking of Ne and the non-conformist morality of Fi makes me doubt that someone who has well-developed both functions would be anything but accepting.
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Able or willing to accept something or someone, inclined to regard something or someone with acceptance rather than with hostility or fear and different types of people and ways of life with tolerance.
