Introduction to MyersBriggs Personality Type

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Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Type
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Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Type

• Implement theories of psychologist Carl Jung
• Used since the early 1940's

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The Basic Model

• Two Kinds of Mental Processes,
• Two Kinds of Mental Orientations

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Two Kinds of Mental Processes

• how people "Perceive" or take in information
• Second letter in Myers (MBTI) Type Code
• Sensing Perception
• favor clear, tangible data and information that
  fits in well with their direct here-and-now
  experience.
• Intuition Perception
• drawn to information that is more abstract,
  conceptual, big-picture, and represents
  imaginative possibilities for the future.

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how people form "Judgments" or make decisions.

• Third letter in the Myers Type Code
• Thinking Judgment
• have a natural preference for making decisions in
  an objective, logical, and analytical manner with
  an emphasis on tasks and results to be
  accomplished.
• Feeling Judgment
• make their decisions in a harmony and
  value-oriented way, paying particular attention
  to the impact of decisions and actions on other
  people.

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Two Kinds of Mental Orientations

• Energy Orientation (introversion/extroversion)
• Outer World Orientation Judging or Perceiving.

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Energy orientation

• Introversion
• Mental world as source of energy.
• Extraversion
• outside world as source of energy.

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Outer World Orientation

• Judging
• drive is to order the outside world
• Perceiving
• experience the outside world rather than order it

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Type Code for the 16 Types

• First Letter E or I
• Favored Energy Source?
• Second Letter S or N
• Favored Perceiving Mental Process?
• Third Letter T or F
• Favored Judging Mental Process?
• Fourth Letter J or P
• Outside World Orientation?

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examples

• ESTJ - Extraverted, Sensation, Thinking, Judging
• INFP - Introverted, iNtuition, Feeling,
  Perceiving

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Dominant Myers-Briggstypes of college students ()

• US Taiwan
• male female male female
• E52 E57 I62 I65
• S58 S64 S95 S62
• T56 F68 T74 T53
• J51 P55 J81 J78

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Big five personality traits

• five broad factors or dimensions of personality
  discovered through empirical research
• purely descriptive model of personality

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The five factors are

• Openness,
• Conscientiousness,
• Extraversion,
• Agreeableness, and
• Neuroticism

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Openness

• appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual
  ideas, imagination, curiosity, and variety of
  experience.

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Conscientiousness

• tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully,
  and aim for achievement planned rather than
  spontaneous behaviour.

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Extraversion

• energy, positive emotions, and the tendency to
  seek stimulation and the company of others.

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Agreeableness

• tendency to be compassionate and cooperative
  rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards
  others.

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Neuroticism

• tendency to experience unpleasant emotions
  easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or
  vulnerability sometimes called emotional
  instability.

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Correlation between Myers-Brigs and big 5

• E O A C N
• E-I -.74 .03 -.03 .08 .16
• S-N .10 .72 .04 -.15 -.06
• T-F .19 .02 .44 -.15 .06
• J-P .15 .30 -.06 -.49 .11