In fifteen pages this paper discusses the MBTI in an overview of how it is used and its relevance. Seventeen sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Indicator (MBTI) is the oldest personality inventory to be seen as being reliable and useful in todays applications. In many ways it has been a tool used only in
conjunction with others in various individual evaluations. The test itself is regarded as being highly reliable - hence its longevity - but it still is a self-reported inventory, meaning
that its results can be skewed by the individual intent on skewing them. Various incarnations of the MBTI have been developed over the
past decades, and each has had design features added intended to disallow intentional skewing of results. The MBTI remains the most reliable and replicated personality inventory presently available.
Background of the Test The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-reporting personality inventory designed to
provide users with information regarding their Jungian psychological types preferences. The test was originally developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs. They began developing the test based
on Jungs theories in the early 1940s. Specifically, the authors were attempting to make Jungs theory of human personality understandable and useful to people in their daily lives (APT, 1999).
The MBTI indicates the respondents preferences on four personality type dimensions: * Extroversion (E)
or Introversion (I) * Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) * Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) * Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
The results are typically reported in letters as indicated next to each of the preferences listed above. There are a total of 16 combination
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