Personality Types

Myer Briggs
(MBTI)

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 • Behaviour is individual and
predictable
• Developed by Katherine
HISTORY Briggs (mother) and Isabel
OF MBTI Myers (daughter) 1940s
• The most widely used
personality indicator in the
world

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 PREFERENCE SCALES

• Extraversion -------------- Introversion

• Sensing -------------- iNtuition
• Thinking -------------- Feeling
• Judging -------------- Perception

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 • I vs. E: You’re exhausted after a tiring day at
work. To recharge your batteries, do you: a)
go to a out like for a party, or b) sit quietly at
home, alone?
• S vs. N: When some one is asking you for
directions, how do give – detailed or not in
The detail?
Questions • T vs. F: Would your friends consider you
more soft-hearted or clear-minded (facts
driven)?
• P vs. J: You’ve made careful plans for a
holiday (organised / list makers). At the last
moment, something forces you to change
your plans. How do you feel? Disturbed / its
ok.
Dominant style – developed by age 7
Secondary function – developed by age 20
Used to support the dominant function.
Together 75% or more of a persons behaviour.
Tertiary function – develops in the 30’s and
40’s
Inferior function – develops mid life or later

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 Four Basic Function

Dealing
Energy Information Decisions with world
flow Processing processing around me

Extravert Sensing Thinking Judging

Introvert iNtuition Feeling Perceiving

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 E-I DICHOTOMY
EXTRAVERSION
• Attention focused outward: people,
things, action
• Using trial and errors with confidence
• Relaxed and confident
• Scanning the environment for
stimulation
• Seeks variety and action
• Wants to be with others
• Live it, then understand it
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INTROVERSION
• Attention focused inward: concepts,
ideas, feelings
• Considering deeply before acting
• Reserved and questioning
• Probing inwardly for stimulation
• Seeks quiet for concentration
• Wants time to be alone
• Understand it before, live it
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 S-N DICHOTOMY
SENSING
• Perceiving with the 5 senses
• Reliance on experience and actual data
• Practical
• In touch with physical realities
• Attending to the present moment
• Live life as it is
• Prefer using learned skills
• Pay attention to details
• Make few factual errors
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INTUITION
• Perceiving with memory and
association (6th sense)
• Seeing patterns and meanings
• Innovation
• Seeing possibilities
• Future achievement
• Projecting possibilities for the future
• Change, rearrange life
• Prefers adding new skills
• Look at big picture
• Identifies complex pattern
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 T-F DICHOTOMY

THINKING
• Decision based on the logic of the
situation
• Uses cause and effect reasoning
• Strive for an objective standard of truth
• Can be tough-minded
• Fair- want everyone treated equally
FEELING
• Decisions based on impact on
people
• Guided by personal values
• Strive for harmony and positive
interaction
• May appear tender hearted
• Fair-want everyone treated as an
individual

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 J-P DICHOTOMY
JUDGING
• Focuses on completing task
• Deciding and planning
• Organizing and scheduling
• Controlling and regulating
• Goal oriented
• Wanting closure even when data
are incomplete
• Wants only the essentials of the job
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PERCEIVING
• Focuses on starting task
• Taking in information
• Adapting and changing
• Curious and interested
• Open minded
• Resisting closure in order to obtain
more data
• Wants to find out about the job
• Extravert :-action oriented
• Introvert :-contemplative (thoughtful)
• Sensing :-pragmatic (practical)
• Intuition :-visionary
• Thinking :-logical
• Feeling :-compassionate
• Judging :-planful
• Perceiving :-adaptable
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 ADVANTAGES OF MBTI
• Self awareness for better self-
management
• Identification of behaviour trends
that have positive outcomes
• Identification of behaviour trends
that have less desirable outcomes
• Link trends with other data points to
clarify personal or professional
developmental opportunities
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DISADVANTAGES OF MBTI

• Trying to predict others behaviour

• Trying to estimate another individual
type (eg. You must be an extravert
because you are so expressive)
• Assuming that how a preference plays
for you is exactly how it would play
out for someone else
• Justifying behavior (e.g. Declaring that
the individual must be P because he is
always late)
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