personality types. myers-briggs type indicator developed in 1915 by katharine briggs carl jung about...

Personality Types

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Developed in 1915 by Katharine Briggs

• Carl Jung about same time• Briggs and daughter, Isabel Myers,

studied Jung’s work• Myers wanted everyone to get along

after WWII, and felt MBTI was one way• Consulting Psychologists Press took it

over in 1975

• Is not a diagnostic• Does not measure how much or

little—no bell curve or average• Reflects your attitude and

preferences at the time you took the assessment




Writing activity

• Where you get your energyExtraversion

Introversion• Your way of taking in information

Sensing

iNtuition• Your way of making decisions

Thinking

Feeling• Your approach to life

Judgment

Perception


• No right or wrong answers• Be relaxed—your “shoes off”

self• May skip questions (make sure

to skip the answer space, too)


ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

Grouping of the functions

ISTJ

4

ISFJ INFJ

5

INTJ

1

ISTP ISFP INFP

2

INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP

3

ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ

2

ENTJ

Grouping of the functions

personality types. myers-briggs type indicator developed in 1915 by katharine briggs carl jung about...

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