...There are innumerable tests, surveys, books, etc. on how to measure or define one’s personality. They all have some merit as these assessments help us to define ourselves wherever we are in the various stages of our lives. I feel like our scores can evolve day to day, course to course, or life event to life event. Some changes may be slight and while others may be life defining. Personality To help illustrate my personality type, I have chosen to share my scores for the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator test and the Big-5 Personality test. These tests were taken during my Introduction to Graduate Studies course. My Myers-Briggs type is ESFP: Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving. My percentage for Extroversion was high at 89%. My...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a psychometric test used to measure psychological preferences in how a person makes decisions and perceives their surrounding environment. A mother-daughter pair, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers developed the test based on the typological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. After more than fifty-years of research and development, the MBTI has become the most widely used and respected personality tool. Eighty-nine companies out of the US Fortune 100 make use of it for recruitment and selection, or to help employees gain a better understanding of themselves and their colleagues (Psychometric Success, 2013). The primary theory behind the MBTI is that each person's personality fits into only one of sixteen types. These categories are based on four features of personality, each consisting of two opposite preferences called dichotomies. The MBTI combines an individual’s preferences from each dichotomous pair, denoted by a letter, to yield one of the personality types. Each type is equally valuable and according to the theory, everyone has an innate preference that determines how he or she will behave in all situations (Myers-Briggs, 2013). The four dimensions are: Extroversion (E) vs Introversion (I). This dimension reflects the perceptual orientation of the individual. Extroverts are said to react to immediate and objective conditions in the environment. Introverts, however, look inward to their internal and subjective reactions...
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...Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Introduction The world economy today is changing in a fast pace and it puts a high pressure on companies abilities to be efficient and productive. Because of today’s demanding business environment companies are under more pressure and a strategic advantage could be in building an effective workforce through a variety of psychometric testing (Suman, 2009). One such psychometric test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which is widely used in organisations today as a tool. This literature review aims to briefly describe the background history of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and to understand the theory of the test. It also aims to identify and investigate research done on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. One objective is to analyse research on its reliability and validity and also to understand the application of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in different appropriate work and organisational settings e.g. team work. History MBTI is based on the writings of Carl Jung, a Swiss who worked with Freud before parting from him and developing his own theory. Jung was influenced by Freud but suggested that it was something wider than purely sexual or aggressive drives that motivated behaviour. He also shifted focus from Freud’s childhood centred personality development theory to a belief that personality development continues throughout life (Maltby, Day and Macaskill, 2010). When Jung analysed a patient’s case history through two different perspectives...
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...Personality Inventory an INTJ Consideration Alyssa Bergermann Eastern Michigan University Personality Inventory an INTJ Consideration Personality tests, a long studied branch of psychology; within this long period of focus psychologists have labeled few tests as reliable staples that individuals unfamiliar with psychological backgrounds can easily interpret. The MBTI, Myers Briggs Type Indicator test’s purpose is to take the designated personality types conceived by C.G. Jung and shift them into more understandable concepts relatable to an individual’s life (Myers & Briggs Organization, 2014). Focusing on an INTJ test result, we will compare the examinee’s personality traits to those described by her MBTI result. Evaluation of these results will confirm whether she feels the test was accurate or if she disagrees with some aspects of the test. We will also assess for areas where the examinee may feel she has learned something new about herself from the provided INTJ test score. Scoring for the MBTI involves consideration of how the examinee responds to the provided questions. These questions are reported in an analytical fashion that allows results to focus on specific personality criteria (Myers & Briggs Organization, 2014). Our results included the letters INTJ, these letters stand for the personality designations of the examinee. Considering that these results pertain to the following personality breakdown, introvert (22%), intuitive (28%), thinking (19%),...
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...MBTI Assingment Myers-Briggs type indicator is a psychometric questionnaire, which was designed to identify certain psychological differences according to the theories of Carl Gustav Jung. The Myers-Briggs model of personality has many applications from team building to navigating midlife crisis. Its main purpose is to identify your preference. An example would be your hands. You are born with two foots; although as a child you tend to prefer either your right or left foot to kick a ball, same as with your personality. I have done the Myers-Briggs test and my personality seems to match with the ENTJ type. I’m surprised that the 72 questions in the Myers- Briggs questionnaire gives a perfect indication about your personality. ENTJ personalities are natural leaders who want to be more productive. They are also people with a lot of confident and sometimes they have more confident then their experience can support. I can relate myself with this personality type. As a manager, I am always focused on developing the working skills of my employees/colleagues. Employee empowerment is one of my strategies and that is an effective way of having everything under control and to stimulate employees to do a bit more work and learn from their experience. Besides developing and leadership skills, I really love competitive challenges and I do whatever is needed to win. There are also skills in the Myers-Briggs test that don’t match with my personality. Although this...
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...workforces. Public and private sector companies frequently conduct psychological test for full-time employment. Different types of psychological testing One type of psychological testing is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality testing system that private companies and federal government agencies use. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator arranges personality data by a four scales of opposing characteristics (Basu, 2013). The first scale decides if an employee’s drive ascends form the environment or the individual’s own ideas and emotions. The second scale decides if an employee pays attention to sensory information or to his or her own intuition (Basu, 2013). The third scale calculates if decisions are made based on reasoning and logic or personal values. The fourth scale decides if the employee is spontaneous or organized towards his or her daily activities. Companies use Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test to try to correspond employees to the job that fits his or her personality, enhance organizational communications and design training programs. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test helps with pre-employment by figuring out if the applicant has the characteristics for the job that is available. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test tells if an employee is fit for their position or if there is room for improvement. Another psychological test is an intelligence test. An...
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...Shakebrand Younger October 31, 2015 Writing Assignment The expression Myers Briggs is most often used to describe a personality theory developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs. It explicates some of the key modifications among individuals and is frequently charity to support indicate a career, advance relationships, develop leadership skills, etc. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a valuation that is alleged to portion emotional preferences in how people observe the world and create conclusions. According to the Myers-Briggs test, there are 16 different types of personalities. The test involves of a sequence of questions, and your responses define what sort of personality you have and offers overall expectations about how your personality form is top suitable for achievement in terms of careers, communication, etc. Some personality types are enhanced appropriate for some circumstances, and meaningful where you decrease on the scale can make it cooler to understand where you’re most relaxed and why. If you’re an introverted-sensing personality type, for example, you may be more motivated to lesser, organized surroundings, while your extroverted-feeling associates may like large, brash assemblies. It delivers countless vision into individuals and their lives. Personality traits affect every individual in the world. Every human has a personality, which helps every person better understand the human mind, actions, and choices we as humans make...
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...Myers-Briggs assessment critique Abstract This critique will cover personal observations and analysis of the Myers-Briggs assessment. The assessment helps describe personality types according to Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers typology. After completion, there are two different descriptions along with a career identifier based on the type of personality the test described. Myers-Briggs assessment critique When I originally completed the test about 10 days ago, I was very skeptical of this assessment because I felt that my answers or my train of thought might change based on how I feel today or this week. I decided to take this test today to see if there was any difference on the personality type it would present. I want to point out that I did not remember, nor did I care to remember my previous answers when I originally took this personality assessment. I was not amazed, but definitely surprised when I saw ENTJ (Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging) code again; although extraverted and thinking blocks were significantly higher the second time I completed the assessment. This gave me a better idea and positive perception about this typology test, as I do not remember taking this type of an assessment in the past. Reading ENTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss made me ask more questions than understanding simply because of generalization aspects. Yes, many things in the psychological description fit my personality type, but they are describing many...
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...Think Piece #1 Myers-Briggs Psychological Types In the early 1900’s, famed Swiss Psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung recognize that people had distinctly different preferences which leads to different behaviors. Carl Jung developed and characterized people into two perceiving functions; Sensation and Intuition, and two judging functions; Thinking and Feeling. These functions were then modified by two main attitude types; Extraversion and Introversion. Carl Jung believed that we all use these four functions throughout our lives, but individually we use different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency. During World War II, American Psychologist Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs interest in Jung’s personality types led to their creation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MTBI) examination. Their goal was to help people understand themselves and each other so that they may work in war-time tasks that suited their personality types therefore increasing happiness, creativity, and production. In this “Think Piece” assignment, I will; - Discuss the results of my psychological type given by Myers-Briggs test on-line. - How my specific type affects my behavior at work? - Discuss the psychological type of someone whose type is completely opposite of mine. - Use the Myers-Briggs concepts to describe how the relationship between the two of us could be uncomfortable. - Describe also how I may be able to complement the opposite psychological type. This review...
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...The Relationship Between Running head: PERSONALITY AND MATH ATTITUDES 1 The Relationship between Myers-Briggs Personality Dimensions and Attitudes toward Mathematics PSYC 215 Tuesday June 20, 2006 The Relationship Between Abstract The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between five mathematics attitudes based on the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales (1976), with the four Myers-Briggs personality variables. It was hypothesized that significant negative correlations would result between the thinking/feeling personality scale and the attitudes of mathematics confidence, math-related anxiety and perceived usefulness of mathematics. The participants 2 in this study were 48 Trent University students enrolled in PSYC 215, all of whom completed the Jung Typology Test and the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales-Revised. The results indicated that a significant negative relationship exists between the thinking/feeling personality scale and the math confidence attitude. The other four attitudes did not demonstrate statistically significant correlations with any of the personality variables. Future research involving a more specific exploration of attitudes and personality factors would prove beneficial. In addition gender comparisons for personality and mathematics attitudes may be useful as well. The Relationship Between The Relationship between Myers-Briggs Personality Dimensions and Attitudes toward Mathematics...
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...Motivational Theories and Applications Professor Teri Michael Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for MGM 335 Organizational Behavior Principles By Deborah Cantin CTUO January 20, 2014 Motivational Theories and Applications This paper introduces three motivational theories with models. Each one provides a different method for motivating individuals in the workplace. We also discuss how Myers-Briggs (MBIT) factors into motivation. Employees need motivation based on their psychological and physical needs according to Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, and the use of Myers-Briggs to identify individual behavioral traits. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs According to Kendra Cherry, “Abraham Maslow was born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York” (Cherry, n.d.). Mr. Maslow was the first of seven children. His parents were Jewish and moved from Russia. He was a rather lonely boy who spent his childhood reading books. Mr. Maslow thirsted for more in-depth knowledge so he went on to study law at the City College of New York. During his time there, he married Bertha Goodman his first cousin. During his studies at the University of Wisconsin, he decided to study psychology. He found a mentor named Harrow Harlow who later became his doctoral advisor. Mr. Maslow went on to earn three psychology degrees from the University of Wisconsin. The three degrees included: a bachelors in 1930, a master’s in 1931, and a doctorate in 1934” (Cherry, n.d.). The...
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...My decision to pursue an MBA degree to further my career - Week-2 MGT / 521 September 7, 2010 My decision to pursue an MBA degree to further my career - Week-2 The slow down of the US economy has caused companies to start to down sizing, reducing their workforce by layoffs or closing down completely. The Information Technology is being hit twice as hard by not only the reduction of local positions due to the economy slow down but in addition, the lower cost of outsourcing (Computerworld Staff, Feb 22, 2010) . During a recent reduction in force evaluation by my current employer, I noticed that the employee’s education level was an assessed value, which added to the valuable points for retaining an employee. I decided that continuing my education would be a very important addition to resume, future reduction in force evaluations to maintain my current career or make me more valuable if I was out looking for a job. Originally, I was interested in starting a Master of Science in Management (MSM) (Thomas Edison State College, 2010) to further advancement in my current career in Information Technology (IT) and potentially get into a IT Management position the program is offered strictly on-line. I have also started noticing a pattern of companies “outsourcing” information technology jobs to other countries for cost savings to the US companies and noticed the continued strong increase of revenue for the Outsourced Cognizant Technology Solutions (Ribeiro, Augu) . I decided...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory: A Jack of All Trades & Industries Kayla Acton Industrial/Organizational Psychology PSY 7610 Tests & Measurements 3rd Quarter, 2012 2813 Blossom Lane Evansville, IN 47711 Telephone: 812-618-5512 Email: kevin_kayla_acton@live.com Instructor: Dr. Richard Klein TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4-6 Article Summaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6-15 Critical Evaluation of a Psychological Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 15-17 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 17-20 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21-23 Abstract The purpose of this literature review is to determine if the Myers-Briggs Types Indicator possesses the necessary validity and reliability to be considered an appropriate tool for use in industrial/organizational settings. Some research has disputed the accuracy of its psychometric properties, including Furnham (1990) who asserts that the MBTI is too vulnerable to individuals who falsify their answers. Another critic is Pittenger...
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...Professor Howard Gardner indentifies eight different learning styles by individuals. These learning styles known as intelligences are the mind’s way of processing information. The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory along with the Personality Spectrum helps to convey the type of interactions that work best with a specific personality type. Knowing the learning style and the personality characteristics are useful communication and collaboration tools. Communication and Collaboration Strategy The traditional concept of intelligence was based on a 30-item intelligence test developed by Alfred Binet from France in the early 1900s. Other psychologists around the world were developing similar theories during the same period. They were professing that intelligence was based on a single ability used to solve problems. It wasn’t until 80 years later that theory was challenged by Howard Gardner in his work titled Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Garner’s theory regarding multiple intelligences came about from asking several straightforward yet compelling questions: “Are the brilliant chess player, violinist and athlete “intelligent” in their respective disciplines? If they are, then why do our tests of “intelligence” fail to identify them? In general, why does the traditional construct of intelligence fail to take into account such large areas of human endeavor?” (Gardner, 2006, p. 6) Various Intelligences As a result, his theory further...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test is an exceptional tool to determine not how a person relates to other but to determine how a person develops their perceptions, gather information and makes decisions. The Myers-Briggs personality preference of Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging (ENTJ) are known as the natural born leaders. Generally being a leader is an admirable trait. However, there are times when the ENTJ preference can alienate others and be seen as micromanagers. Needs work FREETHINKING LEADERNeeds work on APA According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Test, it has been determined that I possess an Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging (ENTJ) personality (Personality test based...
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