Individual Preferences and Personality Types

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Individual Preferences and Personality Types

• An Overview
• by Kara Haney, Pat OCain, and Amanda Sims

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Normalizing Psychological Testing

• Compilation
• Organizing Data
• Results
• Perception

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What is the Myers-Briggs?

• It is a personality inventory based on the
  personality types defined by Carl Jung.

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Carl Jung

• Swiss psychiatrist
• Founder of analytical psychology
• Theories used as basis for Myers-Briggs

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Myers and Briggs

• Katharine Briggs
• Housewife from Washington, D.C. in the early
  1920s
• Wanted to understand her future son-in-law,
  Clarence Myers
• Developed test based on Jungs work in
  psychological types

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Trait Descriptions

• Extrovert
• Sensing
• Thinking
• Perceiving

• Introvert
• iNtuitive
• Feeling
• Judging

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Trait Combinations

• ENTP
• INTP
• ENTJ
• INTJ
• ESTP
• ISTP
• ESFP
• ISFP

• ENFP
• INFP
• ENFJ
• INJF
• ESTJ
• ISTJ
• ESFJ
• ISFJ

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Polarities
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Where You Can Take the Test

• Companies
• UNCA Career Center
• Counselors
• Therapists
• On-line

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Scoring the Test

• Extensive version scored by a professional
• Shorter version can be self-scored

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Our Results

• Kara - ENFJ
• Amanda - ISFJ
• Pat - ISFJ

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What Type are You?
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Works Cited
Gladwell, Malcolm. Personality Plus.
The New Yorker. Sept.20, 2004 net.com. http//similarminds.com/jung/isfj.html
http//santafecoach.com/Ptest/isfj.html
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Photos http//skywalker.cochise.edu/yond
esti/jung OCain, Pat