What is the personality type of Margaret Phelps? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Margaret Phelps from Kramer Vs Kramer 1979 and what is the personality traits.
Margaret Phelps personality type is ISFJ, but her behaviour is ENFJ. Her behaviour is the result of the way she was raised.
She was raised by two people who were very different types. The first person was emotional, irrational, and unstable. The second person was logical, rational, and stable.
When she had children, she tried to copy the way her mother was raised. She expected her children to be like her mother. She expected them to be emotional, irrational, and unstable. She didn't want her children to be logical, rational, and stable.
She didn't understand that there were other ways to raise a child than the way she was raised. She didn't know that she could raise her children to be balanced types just as easily as she could raise them to be irrational types.
What is the logic behind this? It is the same logic that makes Margaret Phelps a very good mother, but a bad wife. It is the same logic that made her a good mother, but a bad mother-in-law. It is the same logic that makes me a very good son-in-law, but a bad father.