Hi all,
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, the digest contained:
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:19:40 -0400
> From: Audrey <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Kristi and her Question
>
> Funny you should bring this up Bill. This is one my psychiatrist
> administered as a tool or a guide to help him decide what my basic
> personality was ...
Yes, the MBTI is one of many personality-type, psychological
tests that are available and one of the most popular ones -- I
think I've taken them all. :-)
From the 1990 edition of the test:
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The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) was developed by an
American mother and daughter team., Katharine Briggs and Isabel
Myers. They based the Indicator on the work of C. G. Jung, a
Swiss psychiatrist who had studied people's behaviors for many
years. The MBTI provides a useful measure of personality by
looking at eight personality preferences that all people use at
different times. These eight preferences are organized into four
bi-polar scales. When you take the Indicator, the four prefer-
ences that you identify as most like you (one from each scale)
are combined into what is called a "type."
In order for you to make the most of your results, it is im-
portant to understand that the MBTI:
* describes rather than prescribes; it feeds back to you in or-
ganized form the preferences you indicated when answering the
questions
* describes preferences, not skills or abilities
* says that all preferences are equally important
* is well documented and researched with hundreds of scientific
studies conducted over a forty-year period
* has a user's organization devoted to its continued research
and development
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The eight preferences are:
* (I)ntrovert/(E)xtrovert
* (S)ensing/I(n)tuition
* (T)hinking/(F)eeling
* (J)udgment/(P)erception
So, when I said that I was I(53)N(9)F(7)J(13) -- or more sim-
ply, INFJ -- I was saying that I was an Introvert, Intuitive,
Feeling, and Judgment type person. The numbers are a scale where
the higher the number the more you tend towards that particular
preference. And, the lower the number, the more you tend toward
that preference's complimentary preference.
For example, I am a strong (53) Introvert but weak in (9) In-
tuition and tending a little towards Sensing. For more informa-
tion, you might surf over to:
http://www.cpp-db.com/
http://www.capt.org/
http://www.personalitytype.com/
http://www.aptcentral.org/
And, personally, I just thought it might be interesting to
find out if PWPs might tend to cluster around a particular type.
Take care ...
Bill--
...who doesn't understand why they call it "chili" if it's hot.
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