What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on Jung's theory of psychological type, reports your preferences on four scales. Each scale represents two opposite preferences. The four letters that make up your type can help you understand yourself and your interactions with others. Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs began developing the MBTI in the early 1940s to make C. G. Jung's theory of human personality understandable and useful in everyday life.
The MBTI id divided into four dimensions:
- Extraversion (E) OR Introversion (I)
- Sensing (S) OR Intuition (N)
- Thinking (T) OR Feeling (F)
- Judging (J) OR Perceiving (P)
The results of the indicator is usually represented by four of the above alphabets, one from each group.
There are 16 different ways of combination (the 16MBTI):
ISTJ, ISTP, ESTP, ESTJ, ISFJ, ISFP, ESFP, ESFJ, INFJ, INFP, ENFP, ENFJ, INTJ, INTP, ENTP, and ENTJ.
Though many factors combine to influence an individual's behaviors, values, and attitudes, the four-letter type descriptions summarize underlying patterns and behaviors common to most people of that type.
