I think the punitive people I know who follow "gurus" are very regimented and anxious, too.
Myself, I'm an ENFJ. I don't know what that means in terms of my chances for following a path rigidly or molding it to fit, but I think my own disturbed childhood has shaped me far more. I have never and will never join some type of armed forces, couldn't be in a sorority, will never choose to take karate or anything that has me bowing to another person, and preferred jobs where I self-regulated, because I can't stand authority. I'm fairly certain my political beliefs favor this as well. And my parenting beliefs follow this as well (and possibly that's another form of rigidity...? Hmm...)