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Title: Personality and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®


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Personality and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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Agenda
  • What is personality type?
  • Theoretical background
  • Development and framework of the MBTI
  • Interpretation of type
  • Communication and decision-making
  • Ethics of typology
  • Determining your MBTI type

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What is Personality Type?
  • Categorization of people
  • Descriptive not prescriptive
  • Generally stable over time
  • Tool for understanding self and others

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Theoretical Background
  • Carl Jung
  • Contemporary of Sigmund Freud
  • Basic theory of personality type people are
    fundamentally different and yet fundamentally
    alike
  • An individuals behavior reflects a pattern that
    indicates his or her preference for energy
    source, data collection, and decision making

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Theoretical Background
  • Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs
  • Extension of Jungian theory
  • Observation and research
  • Added a dimension regarding lifestyle choices
  • Development of an instrument

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Development of the MBTI
  • Self-reported and nonjudgmental psychological
    instrument categorizing people
  • Based on mental preferences
  • We develop strength, skills, and abilities with
    one hand and underdevelop the other, but we still
    use both hands
  • We have dominant personality traits and auxiliary
    traits which surface under certain conditions
  • Normative data set

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Framework of the MBTI
  • Mental processes
  • Perceptions
  • Judgments
  • Mental orientations
  • Energy orientation
  • Outer world orientation

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Mental Processes
  • Perceptions
  • How you perceive your surroundings
  • Sensing (S)
  • Rely on actual data
  • Gather information through the five senses
  • Pay attention to details
  • Intuition (N)
  • Rely on inspiration
  • Gather information through sixth sense
  • Look at the big picture

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Mental Processes
  • Judgments
  • The basis for decision making
  • Thinking (T)
  • Base decisions on logic and principles
  • Objectivity
  • Feeling (F)
  • Base decisions on human values and harmonious
    relationships
  • Subjectivity

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Mental Orientations
  • Energy orientation
  • Where you get your energy
  • Introversion (I)
  • Energy directed inward
  • Prefer concepts and ideas
  • Think before speaking
  • Extraversion (E)
  • Energy directed outward
  • Prefer to interact with people and things
  • Speak before thinking

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Mental Orientations
  • Outer world orientation
  • The lifestyle used to deal with your environment,
    i.e., most often used mental preference
  • Judging (J)
  • Decisiveness, closure
  • Value task or project completion
  • Perceiving (P)
  • Curiosity, flexibility
  • Value starting a task or project

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Interpretation of MBTI
  • I/E, S/N, T/F, J/P
  • 16 possible types
  • Relation to
  • Cognitive ability or general intelligence
  • Other personality characteristics
  • Communication style

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Communication Using Type
  • Basic compatibility
  • Focus on style recognition and understanding
  • Appropriate response the key
  • Avoid stereotypes
  • Appreciate the uniqueness of each person

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Decision-Making Using Type
  • Recognize how group members may complement or
    contrast each other
  • On the other hand, watch out for groupthink!
  • Focus on respectful debate and compromise
  • Appreciate the unique value of each persons
    viewpoint and input

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Ethics of Typology
  • Should employers use it for?
  • Selection
  • Team building
  • Conflict management
  • Performance appraisal
  • Career path decisions
  • Should companies target personalities?
  • Using the MBTI instrument

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Whats Your Type?
  • Short, self-score version of the MBTI attached to
    your slides
  • Full version free for UTA students
  • Complete the inventory online
  • Register for an interpretation session
  • Counseling Services (817) 272-3671
  • http//caacs.uta.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?PortalId
    10tabindex11tabid103

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What You Should Know
  • Why do we measure personality type?
  • What does ones MBTI type describe?
  • What are appropriate uses of personality type?
  • What are inappropriate uses?
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