Find out your MBTI
personality type?
Ransdell Associates offers
eight variations of the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator from the basic MBTI
Profile Form-M, which makes a good starting
point for learning about your personality type, to
the MBTI
Step II Administration, which explores the
next level of type by identifying and
investigating 20 additional facets in the 4
dichotomies. There
are literally a million combinations with the MBTI
Type II Indicator!
What is the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator?
The MBTI is a self-reporting
personality inventory, designed to help
individuals understand themselves. It helps people
understand their natural preferences, motivations,
and potential areas for growth. It aids in
understanding others, particularly those with
different types. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI) is instrument is the most widely used
personality inventory in the world.
Isabel Myers' unique application of Carl
Jung's theory of psychological type has stood the
test of time for over 50 years.
Over two million people take the test each
year and gain valuable insight about themselves
and the people they interact with.
The MBTI instrument
determines preferences on four scales:
Extraversion-Introversion (EI), Sensing-Intuition
(SN), Thinking-Feeling (TF), and
Judging-Perceiving JP).
The various combinations of these
preferences result in 16 personality types.
If you are at least 14 years old you can
take the test. The MBTI instrument has always
reflected the latest developments in type theory,
and research from more than 4,000 studies shows
that the test has broad useful application in the
general population. Carl Jung and the Theory
behind Psychological Type The four dimensions of
personality type (EI, SN, TF, and JP) and the
ideas behind the sixteen types are the lifework of
Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine
Briggs. The MBTI was developed specifically to advance Carl Jung's
theory of type into applications that the general
population could practically use. Carl Jung the
great Swiss psychologist, developed one of the
most comprehensive theories to explain human
personality.
The common belief during the early to
middle 20th century regarding people's behavior
was that it was random.
Jung, however saw patterns of behavior. What he called "psychological types" are patterns in
the way people prefer to perceive and make
judgments. In Jung's theory, all conscious mental activity can be
classified into four mental processes or functions
which are two perception processes (sensing and
intuition) and two judgment processes (thinking
and feeling).
What is part of our moment to moment
consciousness comes either through the senses or
through intuition.
To remain in consciousness, perceptions
must be used.
They are used in the manner of sorting,
weighing, analyzing, and evaluating, by the
judgment processes
thinking and feeling.
The Four Personality
Traits or Dichotomies
The instrument itself
addresses an individual's preference for four
personality traits. The first acknowledges the
individual's preference for extraversion or
introversion. This dichotomy indicates how the
individual views the world around him/her and
whether they are
energized by others and their surroundings or
prefer to address the inner world of ideas and
concepts. The second dichotomy considers how the
individual takes in data or information.
This can be either through the concrete method of
sensing or the more abstract method of intuition.
Differences between individuals in this area can
create significant problems regarding how reality
is viewed and consequently how individuals view
each other.
The third dichotomy is the
only one that is affected by the individual's
gender. It indicates how information is used by
the individual in making decisions. The more
logical and objective method is referred to as the
thinking function and is preferred by 60% of
males. The more value related and subjective
method is referred to as feeling and is preferred
by 60% of women. These differences can create
significant communication difficulties at home and
at work and understanding this function can
greatly enhance the functioning of an organization
or family unit. Finally, the judging/perceiving
attitudes indicate how an individual organizes and
operates in the outside world. This dichotomy is
usually the easiest one to spot if you are type
watching. The judging type will be systematic and
decisive, while the perceiving type will be random
and open-ended. Differences in the way we conduct
our outer lives can be quite perplexing to those
of the opposite attitude and need to be
understood.
