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MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE

INDICATOR
(MBTI)
By- Satyam Sachan- 18BPH1042
HISTORY OF MBTI
 Based on Swiss psychologist Carl G Jung’s
type theory (1920s)
 Behaviour is individual and predictable
 Developed by Katherine Briggs (mother)
and Isabel Myers (daughter) 1940s
 The most widely used personality indicator
in the world
 Approximately 1 to 3 million people are
administered by MBTI each year
PREFERENCE SCALES
 Extraversion -------------- Introversion
 Sensing -------------- iNtuition
 Thinking -------------- Feeling
 Judging -------------- Perception
E-I DICHOTOMY
EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION
 Attention focused outward:  Attention focused inward:
people, things, action concepts, ideas, feelings
 Considering deeply
 Using trial and errors with before acting
confidence  Reserved and
 Relaxed and confident questioning
 Scanning the environment  Probing inwardly for
for stimulation stimulation
 Seeks quiet for
 Seeks variety and action concentration
 Wants to be with others  Wants time to be alone
 Live it, then understand it  Understand it before, live
it
S-N DICHOTOMY
SENSING INTUITION
 Perceiving with the 5 senses  Perceiving with memory and
association (6th sense)
 Reliance on experience and
 Seeing patterns and
actual data meanings
 Practical  Innovation
 In touch with physical realities  Seeing possibilities
 Attending to the present  Future achivement
moment  Projecting possibilities for
the future
 Live life as it is  Change, rearrange life
 Prefer using learned skills  Prefers adding new skills
 Pay attention to details  Look at big picture
 Make few factual errors  Identifies complex pattern
T-F DICHOTOMY

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

JUDGING PERCEIVING

 Focuses on completing  Focuses on starting


task task
 Deciding and planning  Taking in information
 Organizing and  Adapting and changing
scheduling  Curious and interested
 Controlling and regulating  Open minded
 Goal oriented  Resisting closure in
 Wanting closure even order to obtain more
when data are incomplete data
 Wants only the essentials  Wants to find out about
of the job the job
TYPE TABLE
THANK YOU

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