Indicator

When I was first introduced to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, it was described as a person’s natural inclinations. The innate traits come naturally like when someone writes with his or her dominant hand. It feels more comfortable, and it’s where they prefer to be. When stretching their comfort zone, it’s like writing with their nondominant hand. It’s tricky but doable. Some traits are more in the middle of the scale on people and they are kind of like the ambidextrous members of society,…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a career-center mainstay. It works by asking a series of questions to determine where you fall on the spectrums of four personality dimensions: introversion vs. extroversion, sensing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling, and perceiving vs. judging (Ciccarelli, 2015). Answers of the test will pigeon-hole test takers into one of 16 boxes, each one having career-based strengths, weaknesses and behaviors with which they are associated. These personality types…

The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment that utilizes the ideas of Carl Jung to look at four personality dimensions of a person. After taking the MBTI, I was described as an ENFJ. E standing for extrovert, N for intuition, J for judging, and F for feeling. Three of these letters were perfectly acceptable as a means to describe my personality. Yes I am an extrovert, I do rely on my intuition, and yes I’m in tune with my feelings. However, I couldn’t get over…

After taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) on www.16personalities.com a multiple of times, my constant result were the four letters ISFJ. Each letter stands for introvert, sensing, feeling, and judging. Personally, to greatly understand an ISFJ, the website Truity.com describes us as, “… characteristically [being] humble and unassuming, and rarely call attention to themselves. They can often be found offering assistance to others in a modest, understated way. They are loyal and…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI (Enrichment 1)) is the result of many years of hard work and research by the mother-daughter duo of Katherine Briggs and Isabelle Myers. The MBTI is a non-judgemental tool used to sort people based on personality, where no trait is positive or negative. The test is self-administered with no time limit, no right or wrong answers, and sixteen possible outcomes. Each outcome, known as a type, has four representative letters. There are two possibilities for…

Admittedly that indeed sounds like me, but it was not until I did further research that I was finally sold on that the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator is accurate. The first letter represents where I get my primary source of energy. My primary source of energy is E, which stands for extroversion. Minh Tan wrote a profile of ENFJ which went through every aspect of the personality traits to career choices. Tan referred to the ENFJs as the Teachers/Givers and wrote, “As an ENFJ, you’re primary mode of…

In 1943 mother and daughter duo, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed the first edition of what is now known as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (“A Mini-History” 1). More than seventy years later this test is still used in numerous high schools, universities, and workplaces across the world. Personalities are based on “four separate dichotomies” (“A Mini-History” 1) assessing where one’s energy is directed, how one processes information, how one evaluates information, and how…

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,…

The “Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator” (RHETI) is a personality inventory created by the Hudson and Riso (1999), a sample of the test with a quarter of the total questions is available on the website 9types. The goal of the test is to determine the personality of the subject by classifying them into one of nine personality types. Each of the nine distinct personality types are defined by a set of characteristics which are common to individuals of that type. To format of the test is each…

The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator psychological questionnaire created to look at how people view the world and make decisions. Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs created the test in 1942 based on the research of Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung. During the short test, the individual is asked a variety of questions and then given a four-letter personality type based on their answers creating sixteen combinations for personality types. This includes introversion or extraversion, sensing or…