Report on Personal Style Inventory
The Personal Style Inventory (PSI), was developed by Hogan and Champagne in 1979 to
help individuals identify their dominant personality style and determine if they demonstrate a
balance among the four dimensions or if they have clear strengths and weaknesses in their
personal styles. These dimensions are presented using opposing scales for each learner:
Extroversion (E) versus Introversion (I), Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N), Thinking (T) versus
Feeling (F), and Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P). They can either show a balance among the
four dimensions (E-I, S-N, T-F, and J-P) or have varying degrees of strength or weakness in each
Personal Style.
Table 1.1
Participant's profile
Name Mr. S
Age 29
Gender Male
Occupation Employee
Job designation Graphic designer
Experience 2 years
Interpretation
The Personal Style Inventory was administered on Mr. S, a 29 year old male, who is an
Graphic designer, in a comfortable environment to assess his individual personal style.
According to Carl Jung's Jungian archetypes theory there are four pairs of personality style
dimensions; Extroversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and
Perceiving vs Judging. The test taker scored 18 on Introversion and 22 on Extroversion, which
indicates that he is more inclined towards Extroversion and is outgoing, socially free, and
interested in variety and in working with people. The test taker scored 16 on Intuition and 24 on
Sensing, which indicates he is more inclined towards Sensing and thinks carefully and
remembers facts accurately, but sometimes he might miss the bigger picture.
The test taker scored 20 on Thinking and 20 on Feeling, which indicates that he has
balance in the strengths of both of this dimension. During post task questions, Mr. S, mentioned
that he prefers to be more of a person who is inclined towards Feeling, which indicates that he is
someone who makes judgements about life, people, occurrences, and things based on empathy,
warmth and personal values. The test taker scored 15 on Perceiving and 25 on Judging, which
indicates that he is more inclined towards Judging and is someone who is decisive, firm, and
sure, and sets goals and sticks to them.
According to above scores the test taker’s personality style profile is ESFJ which says
that the test taker is warm-hearted, talkative, conscientious, able to cooperate, an active person,
and creative; the test taker’s profession also encourages creativity. Individuals with this style also
appear to care more about other people’s feelings. He mentioned in the post task questions that
while making any decisions in certain situations he does consider his friends or colleagues
feelings about it and how it can impact them. Although the results indicate that he is inclined
towards Extraversion, the test taker does not fully agree with it. He mentioned that he does
approach and mix up with his colleagues but not very often, he appears to be someone who is
reserved but approachable and friendly. It was found in his responses to post task questions that
he values praises that he gets from his co-workers for his work because it encourages him and
according to the test as well individuals with this profile tends to work well with encouragement
and praise. He agreed with most of the description given for ESFJ profile and confirmed that he
has also led teams for various designing projects and also makes sure that he does/gets things
done on time along with providing his best quality work which also aligns with this personality
profile.
Conclusion
This test was administered on Mr. S to assess his individual personality style. The
obtained personality profile as per the results is ESFJ ( Extroversion, Sensing, Feeling and
Judging). The test taker agreed with the results and also provided further insights which supports
the results.
