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 …show more content…
In all the two versions, MBTI is administered by the use of MBTI forms. The instrument measures personality preferences on four scales namely, extraversion(E)/introversion(I), sensing(S)/intuition(N), feeling(F)/judging(J) perceiving. Questions are all in the form of multiple choice questions. Each question is structured in a way that presents only two options in the form of short statements and word pairs from which one can only choose one of the questions. MBTI therefore uses an Item Based Forced Questionnaire Form. Its structure revolves around the identification of preferences of an individual from a presented choice of two options in every …show more content…
To summarize the strengths of the test, psychologists see it as covering a wide range of personality traits. This is a strong point since it examines an individual as a whole. Its reliability is also its strength. The correlation between the scores of persons with similar personalities is generally high. Strength is its face validity which is accepted by most researchers test is its internal consistency and construct validity. Its test-retest reliability also far much exceeds those of other tests in the category. Some psychologists have however criticized the test for lacking not only in validity but also in reliability from the above discussion. The use of forced format is another weakness as seen by most researchers. One can have two of the options presented in the test questions yet he/she is only allowed to select
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 …show more content…
In all the two versions, MBTI is administered by the use of MBTI forms. The instrument measures personality preferences on four scales namely, extraversion(E)/introversion(I), sensing(S)/intuition(N), feeling(F)/judging(J) perceiving. Questions are all in the form of multiple choice questions. Each question is structured in a way that presents only two options in the form of short statements and word pairs from which one can only choose one of the questions. MBTI therefore uses an Item Based Forced Questionnaire Form. Its structure revolves around the identification of preferences of an individual from a presented choice of two options in every …show more content…
To summarize the strengths of the test, psychologists see it as covering a wide range of personality traits. This is a strong point since it examines an individual as a whole. Its reliability is also its strength. The correlation between the scores of persons with similar personalities is generally high. Strength is its face validity which is accepted by most researchers test is its internal consistency and construct validity. Its test-retest reliability also far much exceeds those of other tests in the category. Some psychologists have however criticized the test for lacking not only in validity but also in reliability from the above discussion. The use of forced format is another weakness as seen by most researchers. One can have two of the options presented in the test questions yet he/she is only allowed to select