Adrianne verified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® preferences were reported as ENFJ. The Extraversion is expressed in the way she directs her energy outward towards people and things. However, in times of stress she has learning she needs time to be alone. Her iNtuition preference is demonstrated in her focus on the future, thoughts of possibilities, and her need to find meaning and connection in all aspects of her world.…
Through the taking of the Myers-Briggs typology test, the O-Net Career assessment, and the Spiritual Gifts Test, I was able to discover more about myself as well as learn exactly how I can use my gifts and personality to better serve Christ in ministry and throughout my life. The results of these three tests, my INTJ typology; my spiritual gifts of music, writing and celibacy; and the fact that I am more suited towards jobs involving arts and communications, can ultimately be utilized as tools of understanding as I continue to grow mentally and spiritually during this current phase of my life. According to the Myers-Briggs typology assessment, I am an INTJ type, one of the rarest and most strategically capable of the 16 different personality types. This type…
After carefully analyzing my results from the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Strengths Finder and Holland Code, I now obtain a stronger understanding of myself as an individual and a learner. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator provided me with my four personalities which allowed me to thoroughly investigate each particular word and learn how I approach different scenarios. Before taking the type indicator exam, I knew how I operated as an individual and student but I was unaware of the specific words that stood behind my personalty. Now when people ask me, “tell me about yourself” or “how do you operate," I have strong and accurate vocabulary to use.…
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a great assessment tool to help one gain insight into their personality type. Having that insight can be vital in finding a career that one will be satisfied in and it can also help on to identify what career options may not be a good fit. The MBTI does this by looking at four sets of traits and finding which ones are the most like you. There is extraversion (E) or introversion (I), sensing (S) or intuition (N), thinking (T) or feeling (F), and judging (J) or perceiving (P). My results came out to ESTJ.…
After taking the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II Personality Quiz and the Myers-Briggs Personality Quiz there were a few things I learned. According to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II Personality Instrument Quiz there are a lot of people similar to me which are categorized as Guardians. We make up almost half of the population and that is 40 to 45 percent. Guardians keep everything running as planned because we take pride in being dependable and trustworthy. Some would consider us as old fashion by being comfortable working steadily within the system and being cautious about change.…
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a great tool used to discover your personality and to help you discover what will help you do your job better. However, according to Pittenger, David J from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN, US the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is not flawless in detecting your personality it will often get it wrong. However, the way Pittenger tries to back up his flawed opinion by using confusing hypothesis, vocabulary, ideas and lacks longer counter sentences from others to argue against his opinion and uses longer sentences to back up his own opinion. This stops him from showing his opinion about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator being flawed. Pittengers opinion on The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator being flawed suffers from his confusing hypotheses used to try to back up his opinion being correct.…
This week Christine Harriger from the center for career and professional development came by to talk with us. She spoke about the Myers Briggs personality assessment and how it can help you decide what to do in life. She went through every personality type to determine what we were and then had people come up to the front to show the differences in people. Everyone should take a Myers Briggs personality assessment just to see what kind of person they really are.…
The career occupation I chose is Law Enforcement. This is why I chose Criminal Justice as my major, so that it could help and with the information to be in Law Enforcement. Since I done many assessment in class, I got to see my personality and I also got to find out my skills. In this paper I’m going to explain why this occupation, and why it’s a fit for me by my personality, values, interests, strengths, and skills. On the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, my personality profile was Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging, also known as ESTJ.…
An assignment was given to us, where we had to take a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to identify where our personality fits best in. We were categorized from sixteen different personality types based on what information we were given and how we answered them. The four categories were based on where you focused your attention, the way you handle information, the decisions we make, and how we deal with the world. Each had preferences to give you the type of personality you most likely fit in, I was put into the INFP. INFP means that I am an introvert, who takes on my intuition, while feeling and perceiving.…
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Essay The Myers-Briggs theory was developed by mother-daughter team, Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, as an adaptation to Carl Jung’s psychological types. According to Corey and Schneider Corey (2014), Jung’s theory included that “both constructive and destructive forces coexist in the human psyche, and to become integrated we must accept the shadow side of our nature with our primitive impulses such as selfishness and greed” (p. 11). The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) indicates that individuals fall into one of 16 categories determined by four opposing preferences: (1) the way an individual directs and receives energy- extraversion vs introversion, (2) the way the person prefers to take in information- sensing vs intuition, (3) how one decides and comes to conclusions- thinking vs feeling, and (4) the way the person approaches the outside world- judging vs perceiving (Hirsh & Kummerow, 1998, p. 2). Hirsh and Kummerow (1998) explain that…
The Myers-Briggs personality test enables an individual to gain a deeper insight into their inherent personality traits. For some people, they have had prior knowledge or underlying assumptions about their personality, but this test provides clearer information about each of their identifiable traits. My results from taking this test showed that I am an 22% extroverted, 9% intuitive, 16% feeling and 12% judging person (16personalities, 2016). The ENFJ personality group is described as a minority group that consists of natural-born leaders, and people filled with passion and charisma (16personalities, 2016). Notable members of this group, also known as the protagonists, include Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey (16personalities, 2016).…
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Big- Five personality model? Please explain and feel free to provide examples to support your response to this question. The first strength and weaknesses of Myers-Briggs indicator framework is people introduced to this reasoning, by identifying usefulness as a way to make sense of themselves and others. People with no psychological training can appreciate the four differences as being authentic.…
Saskia Fletcher Myers Briggs Testing Instrument (MBTI) Wilmington University Myers-Briggs Type Indicator One of the most enduring typological classifications was devised by Jung and has served as the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Anastasi, 1997).The Myers-Briggs (MBTI) designates one's personality type, based upon a classification scheme, which consists of four basic scales and two types within each scale. Thus, there are sixteen possible Myers-Briggs personality types. The scheme is based upon the intuitions of Carl Jung, whose gifted insight revealed that all people at all times are best understood in terms of extroversion, introversion, sensation intuition, and objective subjective. The latter category…
BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs, explains some of the major differences among people. It deals with four pairs of preferences: extraversion and introversion; sensing and intuition; thinking and feeling; and judgment and perception. The preference for extraversion and introversion is concerned with the direction of an individual’s energy. Extraversion is the preference for dealing with people, situations, things, i.e. the outer world.…
Testing was done through a web source based on the studies and theory combinations of Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ personality types. The test as composed of 64 questions that required me to answer as to my preference of response to various situations. The questions were on actions, feelings, needs, and thoughts. After completing the questionnaire, I was assigned a personality preference based on the answers that placed me in a category or personality type. The personality type was determined by my preference in four pairs of alternatives.…