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Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The MBTI was first developed by Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1979) and
her mother Katharine Cook Briggs.

Their goal was to help people understand themselves and each other
so that they might work in vocations that matched their personality
types.

This would make people happier and make the world a more creative,
productive, and peaceful place to live.

The model simplified Carl Jung’s model of personality typing.

MBTI is a test instrument for determining personality types.


Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Myers and Briggs assume that much of our personality can be defined
by diving it into four independent preference areas or scales:
energizing, attending, deciding, and living.

Within each scale we have a preference for one or two opposites that
define the scale.

This makes for a total of 16 different combinations, each of which


defines one particular and unique personality archetype.

The four scales are:

Energizing-How a person is energized?

Attending-What a person pays attention to?

Deciding-How a person decides?

Living-Lifestyle a person prefers


Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
1. Energizing-How a person is energized?

✓ Extroversion (E)-Preference for drawing energy from the outside world


of people, activities or things

✓ Introversion (I)-Preference for drawing energy from one’s internal


world of ideas, emotions, or impressions

2. Attending: What a person pays attention to?

✓ Sensing (S)-Preference for using the senses to notice what is real.

✓ Intuition (N)-Preference for using the imagination to envision what is


possible-to look beyond the five senses. Jung calls this “unconscious
perceiving.”
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
3. Deciding-How a person decides?:

✓ Thinking (T)-Preference for organizing and structuring information to


decide in a logical, objective way.

✓ Feeling (F)-Preference for organizing and structuring information to


decide in a personal, value-oriented way.

4. Living-Life style a person prefers

✓ Judgement (J)-Preference for living a planned and organized life

✓ Perception (P)-Preference for living a spontaneous and flexible life


Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they
reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ
correspondingly in their reactions, interests, values, motivations, skills,
and interests.

MBTI helps people to understand themselves and their behavior.

Appreciate others so as yo make constructive use of individual


differences.

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