Personal Assessment: The Myers Briggs Type Inventory Test

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Personality describes a person’s character, and explained by Funder, it is a combination of thought, emotion, behavior, and the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. [Type theory… Trait theory definition… will add more to intro] The Big Five Inventory test was composed of 44 questions, each on an agreeable scale of 1 to 5. These questions were then organized into 5 categories, each generating a corresponding number. The broader five categories are Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. These five words, dimensions, were each created by taking the most used words to describe personality, and compressing them into these groups. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test that can …show more content…

She got the same results as I did on her first two letters, introverted and sensing, but different on thinking and perceiving. Thinking shows that when making a decision she wants a rule, or principle to apply, regardless of the specific situation and not to let personal feelings or wishes influence her. Perceiving is the structure to her outer life, preferring to be spontaneous rather than organized. When reading the definition for perceiving I did not feel like it accurately describes her, but the statements seemed like her such as appearing to be casual and keeping plans to a minimum, working in bursts of energy, and sometimes staying open to information so long that she misses making decision when they are needed. I think that she leans a little into the judging side for some of her decision-making. [conclu?} Comparing our scores, we both got the same order on the Big Five Inventory test (scores plotted on the graph below). I was expecting similar results because my friend and I do have similar personalities, though it doesn’t always seem that way to the two of us because our differences are more obvious to ourselves. Though it is interesting that we scored nearly the same on the Big Five Inventory, but only got half of the same results on the MBTI. I am curious if the Big Five Inventory is just more general than the MBTI, or if these two personality test seem to measure different part of our personality

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