Socionic Profiles of Vasopressin

We now proceed to obtaining the socionic profiles of vasopressin.

For this purpose, we will use not its psychological effects (which are not always unambiguous), but its well-studied physiological manifestations.

These include reduced daily water consumption, reduced daily urine output, and faster cessation of bleeding (the latter is caused by vasopressin exerting a vasoconstrictive effect on damaged capillaries – additionally enhanced by platelet aggregation under the action of serotonin released from them at sites of injury)

Cluster VP-1. Low daily water consumption (high-vasopressin cluster, with additional influence of reduced dopamine and reduced histamine)

No. 0. Low daily water consumption (vasopressin cluster, with additional influence of reduced dopamine and reduced histamine)

Averaging the profiles of 12 scale questions, 23412 responses from respondents in total.

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,08

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

High vasopressin is the main factor constraining daily water consumption. Acting on vasopressin receptors of renal cells, vasopressin reduces urine output, thereby contributing to the accumulation of fluid in the body and reducing the need to drink. But there are two other factors that also affect daily water consumption. One of them – high dopamine. It promotes increased urinary excretion of table salt from the body (natriuresis), which causes additional salt consumption, and this in turn causes increased thirst and increases water consumption. We are able to account for this factor by constructing a salt-consumption profile. We will subsequently correct the profiles of cluster VP-1 for this dopamine-related factor of salt consumption in order to neutralize the influence of dopamine on the cluster.

Elevated histamine also increases water consumption to some extent. The point here is that high histamine creates a deficiency in the CNS of tryptophan - a serotonin precursor. Therefore, a subject with high histamine unconsciously strives to increase the amount of water in the body (drinks a great deal), because water indirectly contributes to replenishing tryptophan stores and increasing serotonin. This factor is only third in importance, and it is difficult to account for, so when considering cluster VP-1 we will ignore the role of histamine and will not make corrections for it.

1. During the day I drink rarely and rarely go to the toilet to urinate. 0,899

2. I usually drink water, tea, or mineral water only during meals, and even then not much, while outside mealtimes I drink rarely and little. 0,840

3. I drink little and infrequently; my body does not need a large amount of water. 0,501

4. I know that I can easily go a full day without drinking and do without water, without experiencing strong thirst. 0,458

5. There are days when over the course of a day I drink only a couple of glasses of liquid, no more. 0,239

6. I am a “water-guzzler”; I have a habit of drinking a lot of water every day (tea, mineral water, or another liquid). -0,945

7. Every day I drink a lot of water. -0,903

8. I drink a lot of water every day. -0,892

9. I have a habit of drinking a lot of water every day (tea, mineral water, or another liquid). -0,876

10. I often want to drink a little or at least rinse my mouth - my mouth is dry. -0,864

11. As a rule, I wash food down with some drink; it is difficult to eat without this, and sometimes my mouth is too dry. -0,661

12. I drink a lot and often - water is quickly eliminated from my body. -0,429

High salt consumption and thirst (elevated dopamine, enhanced natriuresis) - correcting scale for isolating the role of vasopressin in daily water consumption

No. 0. High salt consumption and thirst (elevated dopamine, enhanced natriuresis) - correcting scale for isolating the role of vasopressin in daily water consumption

Averaging the profiles of 8 scale questions, 19558 responses from respondents in total.

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,03

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

1. I often want something salty. 0,653

2. Tomato and vegetable salads in cafés and cafeterias usually seem undersalted to me. 0,623

3. Practically every day, I like to have something salty with lunch (salted fish, pickled vegetables, etc.). 0,620

4. I often feel strong thirst. 0,604

5. Food often seems undersalted to me - probably because I generally like salty foods. 0,521

6. I like all kinds of salted and pickled foods and often eat rather large amounts of them (herring, or pickled cucumbers, or sauerkraut, salted mushrooms, etc.). 0,442

7. I am drawn to salty foods. 0,042

8. I probably consume less salt with food each day than other people do - I rarely eat salty foods. -0,752

If the correlation of cluster VP-1 with daily salt consumption is removed from it (that is, if the additional influence of peripheral dopamine on the cluster is removed), we obtain a corrected cluster VP-1 – in the third attached image it is given under the title:

“Low daily water consumption (isolated contribution of vasopressin, with the stimulatory influence of dopamine on daily water consumption neutralized)”

No. 0. Low daily water consumption (isolated contribution of vasopressin, with the stimulatory influence of dopamine on daily water consumption neutralized)

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,07

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

Cluster VP-2. Delayed urination (elevated vasopressin)

No. 0. Delayed urination (elevated vasopressin)

Averaging the profiles of 6 scale questions, 7706 responses from respondents in total.

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,09

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

This cluster is most directly associated with the concentration of vasopressin in the body’s biological fluids. However, its precise estimation by questionnaires is the least reliable (this is precisely why, in obtaining an integral vasopressin profile, we rely on several different clusters at once)

1. It is true that I usually go to the toilet to urinate rarely, on average no more than a couple of times a day. 0,860

2. During the day I drink rarely and rarely go to the toilet to urinate. 0,843

3. If I drink a couple of glasses of water, as a rule I will not feel the need to urinate until 4-5 hours later (that is, water is eliminated from the body with some delay). 0,769

4. When anxious, I quite often begin to feel strong urges to urinate. -0,778

5. I quite often, depending on my mood (usually in a state of excitement), have frequent urination (that is, with frequent urges). -0,583

6. I sometimes have frequent urination, when I feel the need to urinate too often. -0,480

Cluster VP-3. Bleeding that stops quickly (vasoconstrictive influence of vasopressin contained in blood lymph on damaged capillaries, possibly also an influence on this property of elevated peripheral serotonin in blood platelets, as well as a number of other specialized peptides)

No. 0. Bleeding that stops quickly (vasoconstrictive influence of vasopressin on damaged capillaries)

Averaging the profiles of 6 scale questions, 8578 responses from respondents in total.

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,10

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

1. When I get cuts, my bleeding stops quickly. 0,939

2. It is true that my bleeding is usually slight and stops quickly (with cuts or abrasions, in women during menstruation, etc.). 0,878

3. Compared with other people, my bleeding stops quickly. 0,876

4. Even with small cuts, my bleeding takes a long time to stop. -0,860

5. There have been times when I had a nosebleed for a long time without it stopping. -0,721

6. Almost any contusion I get almost inevitably results in a colored bruise. -0,711

No. 0. AVERAGE, averaged vasopressin profiles across its three marker clusters

All profiles (type, functional, trait), except where specifically stated and the first type profile (normalized to a zero intertype mean and unit intertype sigma), are presented as averaged EMPIRICAL LINEAR CORRELATIONS of the corresponding socionic indicators with the property under consideration.

Correlations of the property with the expression of the corresponding type in respondents’ personal profile

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving, for each individual averaged scale question, the raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” (taking the sign of the question into account). For a scale consisting of many questions, the contrast will be greater because the probabilities of many questions are multiplied:

What share of the total variance of the property under consideration (in the form of responses to the question) in the population is determined purely socionically, that is, without the influence of response randomness and situational-environmental factors. - NO LESS THAN:

0,06

Contribution of traits to the socionically determined portion of the property’s variance, in percent:

Having averaged the profiles of the three clusters of the physiological action of vasopressin (VP-1 with correction for salt consumption, VP-2, and VP-3), we finally obtain the mean vasopressin profiles across its three marker clusters. The corresponding final socionic profile of vasopressin can be regarded as definitive; it is shown in the last attached illustration.

As can be seen from this illustration, vasopressin increases the psychic functions Di, Se, and Ti (Di – first and foremost), and decreases a number of other functions (above all Qe and Fe).

At the level of socionic traits, vasopressin substantially increases Declatimity, and following this it also increases Statics, Logic, Sensing, and Decisiveness to some extent.

The results are quite consistent with what is known from the literature about the psychological effects of vasopressin - as a predominantly “male” neurohormone that promotes logic and spatial orientation, and in a number of cases aggressive manifestations as well.

According to the socionic profiles obtained, the highest vasopressin values should on average be observed in the SLE psychotype, and the lowest – in the EIE psychotype.