Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

ideas were encompassed in his book Psychological Types as attitudes. (Olson and Hergenhahn, 2011.) An introvert can be defined as someone who enjoys their alone time and is more interested in the idea of things rather than people. An extrovert can be defined as someone who is sociable, outgoing, and enjoys being involved in various events. (Olson and Hergenhahn, 2011.) For better understanding through the next couple sections of psychological types, I participated in a Jung typology test to get…

There are also other models which help to determine the type of personality someone might have, such as Costa & McCrae’s five factor model of personality traits which involve openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. This model also links in with the hexaco model, as they are…

the traits and hence, the theory does not sufficiently explain all of human personality. Making comparison of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument, the common personality test utilized regularly by many corporations, to the Five Factor Personality test, Myer-Briggs is more precise in establishing personality whether a person is introvert or extrovert. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument does not measure a person in grid. Therefore, it is imperative to assert that Five Factor…

Many things describe my identity. I have figured out two distinctive ones however. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator plays a large role in my identity, because I have a very different personality compared to my peers. Therefore it interests me when I am told what my likes and dislikes are. Which also corresponds to why Learning styles impacts my identity. Most of the time I cannot tell what will help me and what won’t. Trial and error has been very common in my education and even my life in the…

introduction to MBTI helpful, and interesting. People acknowledge release, and optimistic feelings when they discover their type. Whereas, the weaknesses of MBTI theory is people fall short of understanding how an understanding of this theory is needed to dispense the test and understand the scores. Another weakness is that many people with psychological pathologies to employ the optimistic type descriptions, whereas they gloss over difficulties, and use MBTI as an excuse. The third weakness is…

may like a certain field, but get hired in a different career field. But, depending on the assessment, some are general questions about a career or specific questions pertaining to a certain career choice (Gregory, 2014, section 11). The Myer-Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory are most common assessments used to measure one’s career choice. The pros and cons of this assessment depends on what a person (the employee and employer) is looking for in a job. Using an individuals…

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…

There are many factors that contribute to the decisions that are made as part of nursing clinical practice. Different types of knowledge are a large part of why novice nurses make the decisions they do. But there is something deep down inside that is really inexplicable, some say even impossible that is part of decision making too. Intuition, that urge to act a certain way without really knowing why, is an important part of why nurses, even the newest ones do the things they do. Robert, Tilley,…

Psychologists define personality as the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish on person from another. (Rathus, 2014) There are some theory perspectives on personality that give pause to the depth of each personality type. For instance, there are several theories of the psychodynamic perspective. This is also known as psychoanalytic theory. According to the work of Sigmund Freud, the psychodynamic perspective emphasizes unconscious psychological…

I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questionnaire which provides indicators of how people perceive the world, why they do the things they do the way they do and how they make decisions. My results after taking the MBTI came up with the letter representation of ISTJ which the website 16personalities.com coins as “The Logistician”. This places me in the same company with notable people such as Sting, Denzel Washington, Angela Merkel and Natalie Portman. The website also goes on to say…