Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test, it tells you if you are: Extraversion or Introversion, Sensing or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceiving. Based on the MBTI type, you can found out what group or environment would you fit best or worst in. You can also understand other personalities which can you get along better with them when you are paired up with them. Because of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test I know my personality type. I am an ENFP (Extravert…

person from another. There are three terms related to personality. They are traits, states, and types (Drummond & Sheperis, 2016). The term personality trait refers to enduring personal characteristics that are revealed in a particular pattern of behavior in different situations (Drummond & Sheperis, 2016). Traits remain stable over time. A person’s traits do influence behavior. There are three types of traits. Cardinal traits are dominating and shape a person’s behavior. This becomes…

Introduction To classify, categorize and to type are all ways to identify common characteristics of a person. The common characteristic which will be focused on throughout this paper is personality. Personality is characterized by the emotional and behavioral traits that a person displays. A person’s personality shapes the type of leader he or she will become. Therefore, taking a personality test such as the Truity will allow one to discover the strengths and weaknesses of a leader, what some…

that the individual is unique” (1). Thus Isabel Briggs Myers begins her book Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type. Truly, the world has no duplicates of people, and each person differs from any other. However one cannot too readily assume that complete diversity and chaos exists within the sphere of human personality. Indeed, Isabel Briggs Myers herself, along with her mother, found inspiration from Carl Jung 's book Psychological Types, which outlined that “much seemingly random…

look at personality types from multiple sources including, Jung Typology, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and Type Talk at Work. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to define my personality type explained by these various sources. Carl Jung introduced three areas of preference that include Extroversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, and Thinking/Feeling, and Briggs introduced the last preference, Judging/Perceiving. These preferences make up sixteen unique personality types that contribute to…

Typology personality Test results. A brief history of the Meyers-Briggs personality test will be provided. The Meyers-Briggs personality type, INFJS, will be broken down and discuss briefly in this paper. This paper will investigate the positive as well as the negative benefits of the author’s INFJS personality types and how each component work in collaboration in the workplace. The validity of each component of the author’s INFJ personality type as well as the author’s two letter temperament…

Jung and Myers technique of giving a letter to each word and combining them is used by many different theories and ideas like Socionics, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, and Linda Berens’ interaction styles. The Myers and Briggs Indicator is one of the most popular and used personality tests out currently. Of course, Jung did not create it, but it was built off of his original personality theories. The idea of personality typologies originated with Jung and was adopted by many other theorists and…

major tests and two smaller test that use the same content construction but different method. First is the Myers-Briggs Type Personality Indicator (MBTI), a self-reported questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people observe the world and make decisions. The Strong Interest Inventory Assessment (SII) is used to assess occupational interests, interests in different types of people and environments, and leisure activities. In addition, career services also offers two…

Effectively, it is a self-report questionnaire designed to make Jung’s theory of psychological types more accessible, understandable and useful in everyday life (Briggs et al., 1998). The MBTI helps identify and explain differences between normal healthy people, which can be the source of much misunderstanding, by identifying their dominant type or preference. The mother and daughter team, Myers and Briggs, published the first MBTI edition in (1962) and over the next four decades it has been…

From the Myers and Briggs Foundation, MBTI® Basics, The Myers-Briggs type indicator test attempts to identify the basic preferences of an individual in each of the (4) dichotomies identified in Jung’s theory. The (4) are, World, information, decisions and structure. Each of the (4) contain (2) choices. For world, the choices are extrovert or introvert. For information, the choices are sensing or intuition. For decisions, the choices are thinking or feeling and for structure, the choices are…