Understanding your personality and how it impacts your work, life and relationships
Understanding your personality and how it impacts your work, life and relationships
Do you believe what you see, or see what you believe? How do you take in
information and make decisions? These are just some of the questions
that you’ll ask yourself during this fascinating introduction to the
Myers-Briggs® personality assessment.
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.[1][2][3]
The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jung[4] who had speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time.[5] The MBTI was constructed for normal populations and emphasizes the value of naturally occurring differences.[6] "The underlying assumption of the MBTI is that we all have specific preferences in the way we construe our experiences, and these preferences underlie our interests, needs, values, and motivation."[7] Although popular in the business sector, the MBTI exhibits significant psychometric deficiencies, notably including poor validity and reliabilit
Carl Jung in 1910.
extrapolated their MBTI theory from Jung's writings in his book Psychological Types.
Each type of personality has differences in how they react to problems
and to others. Because of the energy people have chosen as most
important, each type of Personality tends to produce people who take on
certain jobs and behave in similar ways.
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