Myers-Briggs Personality Type Measure

A Myers-Briggs Personality Type Measure is a personality measure based on submeasures of thinking-feeling, judging-perceiving, extraversion-introversion, and sensing-intuitive.

• AKA: MBTI.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) produce a Thinking-Feeling (T-F) Score.
  • It can (typically) produce a Judging-Perceiving (J-P) Score.
  • It can (typically) produce a Extraversion-Introversion (E-I) Scores.
  • It can (typically) produce a Sensing-Intuitive (S-I) Score.
  • It can be a Reliable Measure (Capraro & Capraro, 2002).
  • It has not been Experimentally Validated (Furnham, 1996).
• Example(s):
  • MBTI 1944.
  • MBTI 1962.
  • MBTI 1985.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • OCEAN/NEO-PI Measure.
  • Emotional Intelligence Measure.
• See: Jungian Theory, Carl Jung, Personality Type, Psychological Measure.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator Retrieved:2015-10-18.
  • 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. The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jung who had speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time. The MBTI was constructed for normal populations and emphasizes the value of naturally occurring differences. "The underlying assumption of the MBTI is that we all have specific preferences in the way we construe our experiences, and these preferences underlie our interests, needs, values, and motivation." Although popular in the business sector, the MBTI exhibits significant psychometric deficiencies, notably including poor validity and reliability.

2002

• (Capraro & Capraro, 2002) ⇒ Robert M. Capraro, and Mary Margaret Capraro. (2002). “Myers-briggs Type Indicator Score Reliability Across: Studies a Meta-analytic Reliability Generalization Study." Educational and Psychological Measurement 62, no. 4
  • QUOTE: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was submitted to a descriptive reliability generalization (RG) analysis to characterize the variability of measurement error in MBTI scores across administrations. In general, the MBTI and its scales yielded scores with strong internal consistency and test-retest reliability estimates, although variation was observed.

1996

• (Furnham, 1996) ⇒ Adrian Furnham. (1996). “The Big Five versus the Big Four: The Relationship Between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and NEO-PI Five Factor Model of Personality." Personality and Individual Differences 21, no. 2
  • QUOTE: This study sets out to examine the relationship between two personality measures - most popularly used measure in the consultancy and training world (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and one of the most heavily used measures in the academic research area on personality (the five factor NEO-PI). One hundred and sixty adults completed the NEO-PI and the MBTI. The NEO-PI Agreeableness score was correlated only with the thinking-feeling (T-F) dimension; the NEO-PI Conscientiousness score was correlated with both thinking-feeling and judging-perceiving (J-P) dimension; the NEO-PI Extraversion score was strongly correlated with the extraversion-introversion (E-I) dimensions, while the Neuroticism score from the NEO-PI was not related to any MBTI subscale score. The openness dimension was correlated with all four especially sensing-intuitive. These results were related to two other similar comparative studies. Results are discussed in terms of recent criticisms of the MBTI.

1993

• (Pittenger, 1993) ⇒ David J. Pittenger. (1993). “The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator." Review of Educational Research 63, no. 4

1985

• (Myersriggs et al., 1985) ⇒ Isabel B. Myersriggs, Mary H. McCaulley, and Robert Most. (1985). “Manual, a Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator." Consulting Psychologists Press,

1962

• (Myers, 1962) ⇒ Isabel Briggs Myers. (1962). “The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Manual (1962)." Consulting Psychologists Press

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