[Azazel]

You might be Melancholy-Supine, then. Supine is a fifth temperament (http://personalitycafe.com/personal...ces/48497-five-temperaments-melancholy-choleric-phlegmatic-sanguine-supine.html), that is similar to Phlegmatic and Melancholy, yet has a higher people-focus, like a Sanguine. So it might pick up as any of these three temperaments in a four temperament test. (NF would be either Phlegmatic or Supine, as would ISF or INP).

I've been loking for it, very useful, but it's not my type even if somehow I felt kinda identified. From now I'll leave it behind, but what I've seen is that the stereotypes of Melancholic are serious snowflake-driven. As it first I felt myself identified with them but that's normal when it comes off much more than the others. Anyways, thank you.

 

[throughtheroses]

I'm a Melancholic-Sanguine INFP. Phlegmatic is my lowest result any time I take tests about this, actually.

 

[Jaune]

I am an ISFP, and I'm melancholic with slight phlegmatic tendencies. I believe that I show basically no sanguine behavior.

 

[garcdanny26]

INFJ here! Melancholic comes first for me, then Phlegmatic I would say as I do tend to be a "people-pleaser," however Melancholic is more of my overall personality.

 

[kitchensink]

Either an INFP or ENFJ... phlegmatic. Yay.

 

[justlurking]

This is my theory, (btw I grouped it as NT/NF/ST/SF because I dont believe in Keirsey's SJ/SP) :wink:

INTJ:Melancholic
INTP:Melancholic/Phlegmatic
ENTJ:Choleric/Melancholic
ENTP:Choleric/Phlegmatic

ISTJ:Melancholic/Choleric
ISTP:Melancholic/Sanguine
ESTJ:Choleric
ESTP:Choleric/Sanguine

INFJhlegmatic/Melancholic
INFPhlegmatic
ENFJ:Sanguine/Melancholic
ENFP:Sanguine/Phlegmatic

ISFJhlegmatic/Choleric
ISFPhlegmatic/Sanguine
ESFJ:Sanguine/Choleric
ESFP:Sanguine

 

[Eset]

Already one made @justlurking :

Me:
I am Choleric-Phlegmatic

 

[azir]

entp looks right ~ choleric/mel
san/phleg might also work for me
(why is choleric shortened to chlor)

 

[5723087]

Pure melancholy...feelsbadman.

 

[Eset]

Pure plebmatic...feelsbadman.

 

[Simpson17866]

Warning: I tend to take stereotypes as a challenge and look explicitly for exceptions :wink:

I'm a Phelgmatic/Melancholic INTP, and some of my favorite fictional characters that I've come up with have been

Phlegmatic/Melancholic ESFJ (mix-match)
Sanguine/Choleric ENFJ (mix-match)
Sanguine/Melancholic ENTP (match)
Choleric/Melancholic ESTJ (mix-match)
Pure Melancholic INFJ (mix-match)

Pure Sanguine ESFP (match)
Choleric/Phlegmatic ISTJ (mix-match)
Sanguine/Melancholic ESFJ (match)
Melancholic/Phlegmatic INFJ (match)

... Huh. My new story is apparently less counter-intuitive about this than my first was.

 

[Azazel]

After a research and tests, I'm sure that I'm either Phlegmatic-melancholic or Melancholic-phlegmatic rather than any layer of sanguine.

 

[justlurking]

Did someone really delete my post? wow....

 

[Snowfrost918]

Mel/Phleg or the other way around. None of the four describe me well. Although, I have trouble believing that INFP as a whole could be Phlegmatic. Their Fi seems to override the idea of a meek and submissive person.

 

[jk4heels]

I am definitely melancholic, but probably evenly split between phlegmatic and choleric.

 

[Eric B]

A mature Fi sometimes does end up in practice being meek and submissive, because it tries to accommodate others (the difference from Fe is that Fe goes by what the others want directly, while Fi infers it from within. Like "if that were me, I'd want this...". This often leads to meekness and accommodation). When people think of Fi being the opposite of that, it's likely the more "primitive" Fi of a Thinking type.

 

[giraffegator]

I'm a sanguine/phlegmatic and my closest type is ESFP so that's nearly right.
I think EricB is right in that as I've matured I've become more able to think "if it were me I would want..." and that has probably made me more "submissive" looking. I've always been conflict averse though and I have a bit of anxiety from childhood trauma in the mix as well that might add to that phlegmatic temperament. As I've matured I've also become slightly more choleric as I became more confident and self assured.

 

[Black Scorpion]

I've noticed this as well, and I disagree with most of these.
I'm an assertive INTJ and my main 2 temperaments are Phlegmatic & Choleric. The 3rd is Melancholic and 4th (sanguine) is nonexistent (0%). Any certain assertive personality type has the main 2 temperaments different (or in a different order..) from the same turbulent personality type.
I studied the 4 temperaments for about 5 years before finding out about MBTI and these are my conclusions:

Assertive ISTJ - Phlegmatic. Turbulent ISTJ - Melancholic/Phlegmatic
Assertive ISFJ - Sanguine/Melancholic. Turbulent ISFJ - Melancholic/Sanguine
Assertive INFJ - Phlegmatic/Sanguine. Turbulent INFJ - Sanguine/Choleric
Assertive INTJ - Phlegmatic/Choleric. Turbulent INTJ - Choleric/Melancholic
Assertive ISTP - Phlegmatic. Turbulent ISTP - Phlegmatic/Choleric
Assertive ISFP - Phlegmatic/Sanguine. Turbulent ISFP - Sanguine/Melancholic
Assertive INFP - Melancholic/Phlegmatic. Turbulent INFP - Melancholic
Assertive INTP - Phlegmatic. Turbulent INTP - Phlegmatic/Melancholic
Assertive ESTP - Choleric/Phlegmatic. Turbulent ESTP - Choleric/Sanguine
Assertive ESFP - Sanguine. Turbulent ESFP - Sanguine/Melancholic
Assertive ENFP - Sanguine. Turbulent ENFP - Sanguine/Melancholic
Assertive ENTP - Sanguine/Phlegmatic. Turbulent ENTP - Sanguine/Choleric
Assertive ESTJ - Sanguine/Choleric. Turbulent ESTJ - Choleric/Sanguine
Assertive ESFJ - Sanguine. Turbulent ESFJ - Sanguine/Choleric
Assertive ENFJ - Choleric/Sanguine. Turbulent ENFJ - Choleric
Assertive ENTJ - Choleric/Phlegmatic. Turbulent ENTJ - Choleric

 

[Rydori]

I'm Sanguine Chloeric

 

[Eric B]

Assertive/Turbulent is supposed to be the "fifth factor" of Neuroticism. Neuroticism was originally conceived by Hans Eysenck as the factor other than "Extraversion" for the four temperaments.
The temperaments were originally I/E and people vs task orientation:

Sanguine high E, high people focus
Choleric: high E, low people [task] focus
Phlegmatic: low E, high people focus
Melancholic low E, low people [task] focus

Eysenck's "Neuroticism" was similar, but like the inverse of people/task:

Sanguine high E, low N (stable)
Choleric: high E, high N
Phlegmatic: low E, low N (stable)
Melancholic low E, high N

Eysenck would later add "psychoticism", which was later broken down into "Agreeableness" (which is actually closer to the old "people/task"), Conscientiousness and Openness, and the FFM theory was born.

Since FFM is perhaps the most respected personality system in the larger psychology field, others are trying to adopt it in one way or the other. Myers even looked into a "Comfort-Discomfort" scale, but determined it was too "negative" sounding, and simply folded its subscales into the other factors of Step II. So this other site now has "Assertive/Turbulent".

So, to go by Eysenck, this factor is already built into the temperaments. "Assertive" is misleading, because it sounds like Extraversion (as the term represents in DISC), but it really means "Stable". "Turbulent" is of course, Neuroticism itself.

Variations from this might result from several different things.
Like the NF and ISF/INP groups, which represent the "Stable" Phlegmatic, might also fall into a more "Neurotic" fifth temperament.
Also, in this whole correlation I've done, represented by the table a couple of people posted above, there's also a third area of temperament in addition to Keirsey and the Interaction styles, and any type can be any temperament in theta area, and so that will also affect one's A/T score.
Plus, things that are not type, such as one's experiences ("nurture" rather than "nature") might also shape A/T.