The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Overview The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality test derived from Jungian concepts. Carl Jung included certain concepts of psychological attitudes, such as introversion versus extraversion, and psychological functions, such as intuition versus sensing and thinking versus feeling. The test produced results on my personality that I can agree with, but the lack of options was a downfall for me. However, the MBTI helped me understand certain concepts discussed in class because my results represented such concepts. This includes Jungian ideas and reliability. My Results and Discussion Regarding the MBTI The results of my personality test were the introverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging types, or INFJ. My score for introversion …show more content…

Typically, I enjoy situations with less people and become extremely uncomfortable in large crowds. This contributed to the decision of applying to private universities rather than public universities. Regarding intuition, I feel that I base things off of certain feelings rather than the senses before evaluating a situation; however, I do not believe this function dominates over sensing as much as my results would suggest. When it comes to rational function, I definitely use more emotional rationale, and I understand why the feeling function was higher than the thinking function. Finally, I structure my life to the point where it is obsessive, and I have trouble dealing with spontaneity, which explains the major difference between judging and …show more content…

Jung came up with the psychological functions represented in the test, with the exception of judging and perceiving. According to Schultz & Schultz (2013), Jung theorized that humans have capacity for all opposing attitudes and functions, such as thinking versus feeling, but one of those opposing forces dominates the ego; the others are presented in the personal unconscious (p. 93). The results of my personality showed numbers for each function, but one number was larger than the other. This suggests that one of each function dominates, but my psyche includes all of them. This test provides a visual example of this

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