[jenny_islander]

I don't know anything about Meyers-Briggs, but IME people who hew strictly to childrearing systems of all types have anxious personalities. If they can just find some way to make the unpredictable predictable and the unquantifiable quantifiable--if they can just find a checklist, somewhere, that guarantees results--then the anxiety will go away . . . right?

Anxious people tend not to trust their own intuition, that fuzzy and un-pin-downable thing, so when the alarms start to ring, they just keep on doing more of the same thing to try to drive away the anxious feeling, because, hey, checklist. In addition, there is the phenomenon seen in victims of con games: if you can get the mark to invest enough in your scheme, they will very likely keep investing more, because nobody wants to admit that they wasted all that time or money or what have you.

Anxious people may end up following punitive and cruel child training gurus--some of the accounts at ezzo.info are so sad. They might end up as the exhausted parents of "indigo children" who are completely out of control. They might have years of their lives stolen by Scientology. It's all about trying to find the checklist that will make life easy and simple and free of fear.