Meyer's Briggs Test

Burton, western & Kowaslki (2015) describes Personality as the enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances. In other words it can be defined as differences in characteristics in a person, including their way of thinking, likes, dislikes, sociability, openness, feelings and behaviour, which make them the person they are and differentiates them from others. All these traits when brought together is known to be the personality of that particular person.

Personality is looked at everyday purposely and accidently. Whether you are judging how your new professor for the semester will be, or if you are studying your best friend for a project, personality is studied abundantly. While there are many ways to define personality, there is not a worldwide definition around. Personality is the unique combination of patterns that influence behavior, thought, motivation, and emotion in a human being (boundless.com). That is one of many ways of defining personality. When examining personality, there are four main approachable theories including: The Psychodynamic Approach, The Trait Approach, The Social-Cognitive Approach, and The Humanistic Approach.

Within the Jung Typology Test (JTT) it states that my type of personality is introverted, sensing, feeling and judging. The results indicated I am an introvert over extrovert, the score showed 56%. There was a marginal or no preference to sensing over intuition at 1% for this result. Moderate preference to feeling over thinking at 25%, and a strong preference to judging over perceiving at 78%. So this is saying that I am an introverted sensing with extroverted feeling.

Our personality varies based our environment or situation and is subjected to change. As many may know, our personality tells us who we are as a person. It is a substantial role in our lives. Personality is the pattern of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.

Taking the Meyers Briggs Assessment always sparked skepticism in my heart because I always got different results. After taking the test again for this class, I changed my mind about how I feel about the test. The skepticism that I felt was partially rooted in my distaste in being analyzed, which ironically is part of my personality. With this in mind, taking the test once more sparked a different feeling. Not only was I somewhat surprised with my result, but my belief in the tests accuracy definitely strengthened. My test results have changed over time and the fact that the results change seems to support the scientific fact that people can change certain elements of their personality with

Your perception and the way you look at things can reveal a lot about your personality. The way you listen to a song, look at a painting and a photo tells how you interpret things and that interpretation can be used for further understanding of your character and personality.

I would also consider myself an extroverted introvert. There are times when I want to be the main subject but also times when I would rather blend in with the crowd. When I make a decision I always attempt to think through every possibility before making an immediate decision. This is why I agree that I am intuitive.

Most people believe that a person's personality is defined by the things that they love. In my case that would mean my personality solely consists of the lively sport of volleyball. My addiction to music also plays a role as everyday activities are much less depressing. A good book is also a necessity for me as I am incapable

After taking the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator test, I have discovered that I have the ISTJ, The Logistician, personality type. First, as with other personality types, there are many strengths and weaknesses of having the ISTJ personality. ISTJs write best when using facts and data and struggle when developing personal thoughts and opinions. When looking over my previous essays, I noticed the best ones are either research papers or essays involving little commentary on the subject. Therefore, the test is right in that my best works are written concretely. Next, ISTJs can write close to the deadline of an assignment. This is true because I write best when I have the pressure of the assignment being due soon; thus, I come up with fake deadlines

I think more than I feel and am more prospecting than judging. Finally I am more turbulent than assertive which means I am not a confident or outgoing person. With my results and what it tells me I agree that this is my personality I have currently not found anything about it that I disagree with. I definitely agree on myself being more introverted because I never really like going out anywhere especially if there is going to be a lot of people.

Personality is defined as “a) the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual. b) the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of the individual” (Dictionary.com, 2010). Whether we realize it or not, personality defines us as people. There are many facets to my personality,

That would mean I’m introverted instead of extroverted, I use my intuition instead of sensing, I’m more of a thinker instead of a feeler, and I prefer perceiving instead of judging. This however, would be incorrect, given my actual personality is in more of a middle-ground on every one of these attributes. In fact, the majority of people are somewhere around the middle when it comes to these attributes. This black & white perspective on personality traits can be misleading and inaccurate when employers are hiring based on the results of this test. So why do employers use it?

Some key personality concepts that define who I am is introvert, intuitive, intuitive feeling, and judging. Introverted intuition allows me to appreciate a better clarity of perception of inner unconscious techniques. It allows me to act spontaneously and insightful as original resolutions present themselves, on a case by case basis. Basically this means that I follow my intuition and not how I may sense something.

The personality theory that I have chosen as best identifying with my personality and beliefs is Adler’s Individual Psychology theory (Friedman & Schustack, 2012). Adler based his theory on the belief that individuals placed varying degrees of importance in different aspects of social and individual motivations such as an ideal goal. He used the term finalism to describe his idea that individuals all have an ultimate goal that they strive to become. The goal is subjective to the person, and is influenced by the person’s ideals, whether fictional or imagined (Schultz & Schultz, 2005). Adler’s theory emphasized complexes of inferiority, superiority, and dynamics in the context of birth order, and external influences.

Personality takes many shapes and forms and is affected by many factors. My understanding of personality is simply a genetic and environmentally determined set of psychological traits that influence our reactions in the world around us. Genetic because our parents possess a certain set of psychological personality traits that we tend to have in common with them so therefore in my opinion there are heritable personality traits. Personality is environmental because we each have our own separate experiences in the world and these experiences help form our unique personality. Neo-Freudians such as Jung have given us a wide array of ideas of how they believe personality is developed and formatted. Jung in particular has a very interesting take on personality. It is this theory that I can most resonate with and apply to myself and even friends and family of mine.