MBTI Personality Test
Briggs Myers implemented Jung's ideas and added her own insights. She then created a paper survey which would eventually become the MBTI. The test was to assess personality type and was fully developed after 30 years of research by Briggs Myers and thousands of others. In the 21st century, research on this instrument is still being put into action with dozens of articles written per year. The questionnaire is meant to help people realize their "best fit type", the personality type that will help them succeed most in life. The three original pairs of preferences in Jung's typology are Extraversion and Introversion, Sensing and Intuition, and Thinking and Feeling. After studying them, Briggs Myers added a fourth pair, Judging and Perceiving.
- Extraversion or Introversion: refers to where and how one places his or her efforts in the world - with others in the outer world or alone in the inner world
- Sensing or Intuition: refers to how one takes in information - through five senses or through patterns
- Thinking or Feeling: refers to decision making - objectively or personally
- Judging or Perceiving: refers to how one lives and interaction with outer world - structured or flexible
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