Chapter 14:Chapter 14:

Personality Tests:Personality Tests: Myers-Briggs Myers-BriggsType IndicatorType Indicator

Mr. McCormickMr. McCormickPsychologyPsychology

Personality TestsPersonality Tests

Personality Test:Personality Test: An instrument used to measure a An instrument used to measure a

person’s traits, behaviors, and person’s traits, behaviors, and unobservable characteristics and to unobservable characteristics and to identify problemsidentify problems

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorIndicator

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: A self-inventory personality test designed to A self-inventory personality test designed to

identify a person’s personality “type,” identify a person’s personality “type,” strengths, and weaknessesstrengths, and weaknesses

Developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine Developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine BriggsBriggs

Four dimensions assessed:Four dimensions assessed: Extraversion Extraversion (E)(E)/Introversion /Introversion (I)(I) Sensing Sensing (S)(S)/Intuition /Intuition (N)(N) Thinking Thinking (T)(T)/Feeling /Feeling (F)(F) Judging Judging (J)(J)/Perceiving /Perceiving (P)(P)

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Indicator:

DimensionsDimensions

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Indicator:

DimensionsDimensions

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: DimensionsIndicator: Dimensions

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorIndicator

Find out what your Find out what your MBTI MBTI “type” is! “type” is!

Take the test:Take the test:http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/

jtypes2.aspjtypes2.asp

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorIndicator

Find out more Find out more

about your about your MBTI MBTI “type!”“type!”““Type” Characteristics:Type” Characteristics:

http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/type/mbti-basics/

Recommended “Type” Careers:Recommended “Type” Careers:http://www.personalitypage.com/html/ISTJ_car.htmlhttp://www.personalitypage.com/html/ISTJ_car.html

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Indicator:

“Type” Combinations“Type” Combinations

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Indicator:

Frequency of “Types”Frequency of “Types”

Myers-Briggs Type Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:Indicator:

Famous Peoples’ “Types”Famous Peoples’ “Types”