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MBTI
Myers-Briggs Assessment
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) seeks to capture an individual's personality typology in a psychometric instrument. The MBTI grew out of Jung's type theory as interpreted primarily by Isabel Briggs Myers. Such technology relies on a sophisticated and intricate analysis of the fundamental modes of various human experiences. The instrument consists of four separate dichotomies or indices (Briggs and Briggs-Myers (1983): Extroversion (E) -- Introversion (I), Sensing (S)-Intuition (I), Thinking (T)-Feeling (F), and Judgment (J)-Perception (P). Within the system, an attitude polarity of introversion vs. extroversion (EI) is present. Additionally, two psychic function polarities are present -- a polarity of rational or judgmental functions (thinking vs. feeling (TF)); and a polarity of irrational or perceptual functions (sensing vs. intuition (SN)). The last dichotomy measures the preference for Judgment or Perception (JP) in which J's having a more planned, orderly way of life and P's being more spontaneous. To assess...
Hence, this is a complicated process because a person has a fluid personality that is adaptable to his or her given internal and external environment.
Personal MBTI
Based on my personality test, I am deemed as an ISTJ, which represents the following (Humanmetrics, 2012):
Introvert (44%), Sensing (25%), Thinking (75%), Judging (78%)
You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (44%)
You have moderate preference of Sensing over Intuition (25%)
You have distinctive preference of Thinking over Feeling (75%)
You have strong preference of Judging over Perceiving (78%)
There are 16 different personality types, as indicated in Figure 1. However, the issue is the validity and reliability. Many psychologists agree the instrument measures what it is supposed to measure. However, how reliable is the data? I do believe that people are born with…
References
Briggs, K.C., & Briggs Myers, I. (1983). Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Mental Measurements Yearbook
Humanmetrics. (2012). Jung Typology Test. Retrieved from http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Psychometric Success (2009). Personality tests: Even popular tests are controversial. Retrieved from http://www.psychometric-success.com/personality-tests/personality-tests-popular-tests.htm
Figure 1
(Reachout Trust, para. 12) Over the past six decades, the MBTI has become very successful worldwide. It is used by a number of educational concerns, non-profit organizations and corporations for a variety of reasons. These include: Careers/Personal Development: The MBTI helps people identify career and/or life paths. A person's type preferences indicates skills they are most likely to pick up easily, as well as occupations they might be interested in or
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-reporting inventory developed from Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of psychological types and functions by Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers. The MBTI instrument has become the largest personality inventory being used by non-psychiatric individuals. It is claimed that the inventory assists in an understanding of human behavior and potential area of growth. MBTI has found applications in workplace and careers, managing life
But once again, these people are likely to fall into the trap of misinformation since they do not rely on calculated scientific measures. Feeling: Feeling is an indication of a person's ability to respond with empathy. These people would respond to information from the inside. Thus they like to know how it feels to be in that situation and then they respond to it. Thinking would then be in direct contrast
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a psychometric personality assessment questionnaire that measures individual preferences with regards to decision making and worldviews. The MBTI is grounded in the psychodynamic approach exemplified through Carl Jungs theoretical interpretations of personality. The following will discuss the development of the MBTI in relation to its theoretical background, as well as details associated with the psychometric tool, including its purpose, uselfulness, reliability, validity, benefits, and limitations. The
Both of these concrete personality traits, which the MBTI instrument was not designed to measure, were more directly measured through the utilization of other more specifically and concretely designed instruments, and the values recorded by various individuals on these instruments compared with their responses on the MBTI instrument, in order to determine whether or not the instrument has greater applicability and validity in determining personality traits than its creators
In addition, the information that I find on their site seems to be very vague, especially about what kind of 'success' they have had in being accurate regarding people's personalities. While this is not just a quick, online quiz, it has much more of the feel of that type of 'test' than the Myers-Briggs assessment does. If I were to take a personality test, I think I would avoid