Myers-Briggs%20Type%20Indicator%20(MBTI)

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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Description of the MBTI

• Based on Jungs theory of types
• People are classified as one of 16 types (does
  not use dimensions)
• Easy to administer people like feedback
• Used in a variety of settings counseling,
  marital, business, vocational, education

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Description of MBTI (continued)

• Pretty good psychometrics for the four dimensions
• Little support for Jungs theory or typology
• Interpretation is relatively simple

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MBTI Scales

• Extraversion-Introversion
• Where do you prefer to focus attention?
• Sensing-Intuition
• How do you take in information, find out about
  things?
• Thinking-Feeling
• How do you make decisions
• Judging-Perceiving
• How do orient to the outside world?

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Jungs Theory

• Typological
• Importance of EI
• Unique interpretation of I
• Dominant and auxiliary functions
• Naming conventions
• (e.g., INTJ introverted intuition with
  extraverted thinking)
• Evaluation

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Counseling Student Types (n 118)

• ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
• 3.4 1.7 9.3 2.5
• ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
• .8 1.7 23.8 2.5
• ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP
• 0 2.5 31.4 1.7
• ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ
• 1.7 3.4 11.9 1.7

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MBTI and the NEO-PI-R

• N E O A C
• E-I .74
• .69
• S-N .72
• .69
• T-F .44
• .46
• J-P .49
• .46
• (top correlation is males, bottom is females)