How Does Personality Influence Communication Style Communication is a core human need. As humans, we are hard wired for communication. Even if a person is born with a disability such as deafness, they still have an innate desire and need to communicate. We all have personalities. Whether we were born with one or if it developed as we grew is still up for debate, but the fact is that personality influences all we do, including communicating (Maisel, 2011). But how exactly does our personality influence our communication style? We will consider what exactly personality is and how it influences our thought process. We will also explore communication and how we all have a unique communication style. Finally, we will put the two together
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One of the classic tools for ‘measuring’ personality types is the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2016). In this tool which is widely accepted by the psychological community, personality is broken up into four primary components: what ‘world’ do we focus on, how we prefer to process information, how we make decisions, and how we structure information. Expanding on these, the ‘world’ concept is defined as either extraversion or introversion, that is to say, whether we look outside ourselves for information, or if we prefer to focus on our own inner world. How we process information is divided into sensing and intuition, again the difference being if we take in information from the outside world, or we allow our own feelings or intuition to define things. In the area of structure, this is split between judging or perceiving, where judging is an internal decision about external factors, and perceiving is gathering new ideas and options from the outside world. Finally, the decision process is explained as either thinking or feeling, in other words, when we make decisions, are they logical or are they based on people and circumstances (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2016). Through use of the MTBI, an individual can determine their personality type, which can help them understand how they perceive the world outside them, and that is designed to help them better understand their unique learning style and approach to the world. The MTBI is used as a tool to help people decide what kinds of jobs they should get, define their unique learning style, and
One of the classic tools for ‘measuring’ personality types is the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2016). In this tool which is widely accepted by the psychological community, personality is broken up into four primary components: what ‘world’ do we focus on, how we prefer to process information, how we make decisions, and how we structure information. Expanding on these, the ‘world’ concept is defined as either extraversion or introversion, that is to say, whether we look outside ourselves for information, or if we prefer to focus on our own inner world. How we process information is divided into sensing and intuition, again the difference being if we take in information from the outside world, or we allow our own feelings or intuition to define things. In the area of structure, this is split between judging or perceiving, where judging is an internal decision about external factors, and perceiving is gathering new ideas and options from the outside world. Finally, the decision process is explained as either thinking or feeling, in other words, when we make decisions, are they logical or are they based on people and circumstances (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2016). Through use of the MTBI, an individual can determine their personality type, which can help them understand how they perceive the world outside them, and that is designed to help them better understand their unique learning style and approach to the world. The MTBI is used as a tool to help people decide what kinds of jobs they should get, define their unique learning style, and