Find Your Fairytale Match: How Disney Princesses Reveal Your Ideal Personality Type
Are you actually letting yourself be attracted to your most compatible types? Let’s take a leaf from the Disney storybooks for some added introspection and reflection into our unique compatibility.
As a child, Pocahontas was my favorite movie, and I loved playing Indian dress-up. I’d convince my younger brothers to paint their faces and wake up before dawn to go camp out at our outdoor fort. We’d pretend we were tracking animal prints and even make tiny campfires (for 10- and 12-year-olds, we did a decent job). By 8:30am, we’d usually be ready for a nap, all the while proclaiming we’d pick Indian life in the wild outdoors any day.
Do you resonate with one of the Disney princesses more than the others? She might actually be your fairytale twin! Every Disney princess is actually an example of the Myers-Briggs personality. For example, Pocahontas was always my favorite, and I always felt like I resonated with her personality—and ‘lo and behold, my personality matched right up with Pocahontas!
While matching with princesses is all fun and cute, it might actually hold the key to better understanding your Mr. Right, if you haven’t yet found him yet. Could you imagine John Smith with Belle, or the Little Mermaid Ariel with Flynn Ryder? Of course not! And there’s a reason why—Disney actually did its homework and matched the princesses with their true Prince Charmings. Although they should not be the single determining factor to a relationship, personality traits do have a significant influence on a couple’s compatibility.
Disney Agenda
Now, disclaimer: Hollywood, and especially Disney, has been guilty of emasculating the majority of its male figures to make the heroine look stronger or more intelligent. Men are often portrayed in films as the stupid and incompetent sidekicks, as in Brave or Moana. Or, they’re demoted from a place of significance to serve as the chill pushover to make the “strong woman” happy, as in the live-action remake of Mulan, where the love interest is dumbed down from Captain to simple Co-soldier who isn’t a masculine leader figure at all. Look at the live-action remake, where Ariel saves Prince Eric at the end, instead of staying true to the original ending where Eric saves Ariel. Highlighting the feminine strengths of heroines should not mean offering their male counterparts up to slaughter.
Despite all of that, there is something to be said for the iconic couple pairings of our favorite fairytales. Sweet and gentle Cinderella couldn’t have any other than the kind, sensitive Prince Charming, a.k.a. Mr. Kit (hands down the best princess remake ever). And serious, intense, Jasmine needed someone more easy-going and happy-go-lucky like Aladdin to balance her out, especially when he unexpectedly takes charge and makes her trust and let go!
Which Princess Am I?
Ready to get down to business? If you haven’t taken the free personality test, now is the time to pause and do it (be sure to be brutally honest with your answers). Once you come to a definitive answer and receive a result that feels most like you, check the princess chart to see which Disney princess you match with!
Mulan (ISTJ) – Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging
Detailed and dependable, the logical ISTJs are private but open up easily. They are generally very competent and calm. For this personality, strengths include loyalty and perseverance, and weaknesses include lack of tact and a judgmental mentality. The best matches for ISTJs are ISFJ, ESFJ, ESTP, ESTJ, and fellow ISTJs.