The Myers Briggs Type Indicator

The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) “is to make the theory of psychological types understandable and useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is most people do have consistent behavioral patterns” (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2015). The theory was introduced in the 1920’s by Carl G. Jung and the MBTI tool was developed in the 1940’s by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Briggs.

Who are you? Many fortune cookies, horoscopes, and other whimsical devices attempt to tell us our personalities, or our combination of traits and behaviors that make up who we are. However, psychologists today deviate from those unsubstantiated methods and have concocted various personality tests that give us a better understanding of who we are. One such test is called the Myers-Briggs personality test. Based on theories by Carl Jung, but primarily created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, the test gives people a standardized survey of questions to answer. Standardized, meaning the test is given and scored in the exact same way every time to give unbiased and accurate results. It scores people in four pairs of characteristics, so there is a total of 16 possible personality types. Each pair of characteristics are opposites and a person can fall anywhere between the extreme end of one opposite to the extreme end of the other. The pairs are extroverted and introverted, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, finally judging and perceiving. A person can have strong, moderate or weak tendencies towards a preference. (Rathus, 2010, p. 420) There is some criticism of the Myers-Briggs test however, not everyone fits into the categories. People may answer according to socially acceptable norms instead of their honest answers. Not all of the theories were proven, Carl Jung made many observations and deductions but they weren’t formally

John Adams once said, “Thanks be to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right”. John Adams, like myself was introverted, intellectual, thinking, and judging, or an INTJ on the Myers Briggs personality test. Like all INTJs, Adams was stubborn and flouted the ideas of others that he did not agree with. By using my results from the Meyers Briggs personality test, I can examine how I react to certain things and use this to improve my Spirituality, my relationship with God, and ultimately my relationship with others through Christ.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) “is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions” (13). It is one of several personality assessments that is popular among modern mental health experts throughout the world. Currently, it is estimated that the MBTI is “taken by more than two million people per year and is translated into 16 languages (10). “The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people 's lives” (4).

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an evaluative personality tool that is widely used throughout the world today. It is important for a tool that is popularly utilized in a variety of fields and at numerous professional institutions worldwide to be a credible one. So, is the MBTI really the valid reliable personality inventory instrument it claims to be? Evaluating this tool will show that empirically sound evidence does not exist to support the MBTI as an accurate, reliable, or valid instrument for profiling one’s personality type.

After studying my personality type and reading the book, Please Understand Me. I have learned that I am an Idealist, ENFJ to be exact. From the words in The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ENFJ describes me as expressive, introspective, friendly, and scheduling. According to the book ENFJ’s are also called teachers. As soon as I read that I couldn’t think of a better title. My whole Life teaching others is what I have wanted to do. Once I furthered my reading I found that there are so many factors that I can identify with and a few things I have not yet began to look into. Whether it is about my hobbies or the simple likes and dislikes I have, this simple test has opened my eyes to things I wasn’t looking into during this time of my life. I have

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is used to evaluate my personality type. My personality type is ESTJ with 1% Extravert, 38% Sensing, 25% Thinking, and 3% Judging. The ESTJ personality falls under the SJ – The Guardian in the Keirsey’s Temperaments category.

Looking at the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Mark Wilson appears to be an ENFP. He’s very extraverted because he wasn’t afraid to try and start his new company. Once he realized that most telemarketers were unhappy and were only working as a telemarketer to progress in the job field, he knew that he had to change something right away. He seems intuitive because he looked at the “big picture” (making a company where telemarketers are happy and have long-lasting jobs) then figured out how to get there. He showed his feeling trait through his care for his coworkers and by trying to make them enjoy their jobs more. He didn’t make the new company to make a profit, his main reason was to help his fellow employees. His perceiving side stood out to

During the power point on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, as the instructor went through the different types of personalities, I was able to recognize which subcategories I fall into almost instantly. When my computer personality test results were returned, I was correct. As I read the type descriptions of Extroversion, Intuition, Feeling, and Judging- ENFJ- I quickly recognized myself within the descriptive words.

My mission statement is to be a light and voice for Christ in a dark world. My core values, spiritual gifts, and my life experiences have all played an important role in forming my mission statement and who I am. My core values have given me an opportunity to make relationships with people because of God and my life growing up. Also, my spiritual gifts have given me another way to have a closer relationship with God. Lastly, my life experiences have changed the way I am as a person in all parts of my life including financial and physical health and in my work. All of these aspects of my life have been a great experience that have made me the person I am today and the person I will be in the future.

Motivation is a subject that researchers, practitioners, and organizations have spent an unprecedented amount of money on researching, assessing, modeling and working to understand human behavior and performance. With all the research, there is not a quick answer or even full agreement as to what exactly motivates individuals to be successful. The extensive amount of research has included studies across a variety of work settings and at the level of the individual, the group, and the organization leaving us with many theories to explore. Researchers have identified and agreed upon that individual behavior and personality relate to individual performance. I am no different.

Therefore, before writing and speaking to a particular audience in the organization or other social and political field that people usually work closely. We have to understand the audiences as individuals, for instances, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, emphasizes two significant dichotomies to identify ways that people differ. The extraverted types of people are energized by interreacting with other people. On the other hands, the introverted kinds of people focus their attention and get their energy from within. I believe that these two personality traits are essential to the terminate the individual audiences’ preferences, needs, and wants. The organizational culture plays a critical factor in the success of the organization because is the

I felt the Myers-Briggs type indicator results were accurate because I took it a year ago and it hasn’t changed. I have been a debater all my life and I am not going to change. The document that seemed most like me was “under stress, the ENTP may lose their ability to generate possibilities.” The document that seem least like me was “the least developed area for the ENTP is the Sensing-Feeling arena. Yes, the self-estimated type matches my reported type because a debater never hides from the truth. It was very interesting that this test match me better than most test.

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) enables an individual to gain a deeper insight into their inherent personality traits. For some people, they have had prior knowledge or underlying assumptions about their personality, but this test provides clearer information about each of their identifiable traits. According to the MBTI in Human-metric personality test, my scores were 22% (E) extroverted thinking more than introverted, 9% (N) intuitive as oppose to sensing, 16% (T) thinking more than feeling, and 12% (J) judging as compared to perceiving. Thus, my personality type is ENFJ. The ENFJ personality group is described as a minority group that consists of natural-born leaders, and people filled with passion, and charisma for example, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey; they are notable members of this group, also known as the protagonists (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists apprehend pride in providing guidance for others to improve individually and to improve the community at large (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists find it naturally easy to communicate with others and excel at communicating with other people in person (16personalities, 2016).

In my opinion, the best test to use for employees would be a Myers-Briggs type indicator. This test is extremely simple to use and not very time consuming. If this was to be given to a group of employees it can be easily read and the results will be sent back within a few days. The group of people may not even know that their personality is being read until the results are back.