Myers-Briggs Personality Test in Life and Career

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We all love to take part in personality tests, it interests us how we are perceived and viewed in relation to our world and those around us. Especially in working enviornments, you may want to take a test to see what kind of jobs, careers and opportunities would be good for you depending on your score. Many people use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test® (MBTI) as a personality inventory test, whether this be in your personal lives, profession or just for fun. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® test is an assessment in the form of a questionnaire that classifies you based on psychological uniqueness and theories first authored by Carl Gustav Jung. These tests can not only help organizations and individual people realize where their preferences lie, but it also helps very much on a professional and job scale. The MBTI (R) does a great job classifying your personality into creating the most comfortable and productive atmosphere for you.

Types

What the MBTI tests is personality traits and how they interact in sucession with the others. There are many combinations to be had, 16 in total from different sets of differentiations.

There are four pairs of “dichotomies” which basically means pairs of preferences:

ATTITUDES	Extraversion	Introversion
FUNCTIONS	Sensing	iNtuition
FUNCTIONS	Thinking	Feeling
LIFESTYLE	Judging	Perceiving

Attitudes: Extraversion into Action

The attitudes set of preferences refers to how you interact with the world and where you choose to draw your energy from. Extraversion (E) people tend to draw their energy from action and the process of doing. This can be through their behavious, their preference to interacting with people, things and others. Because they derive their energy from doing, they tend to act first, reflect on the event and then act some more. This is an active way to seeking answers and a momentous way of going through daily happenings.

Attitudes: Introversion of the Inner

On the other side of the fence is the Introversion approach to doing. These people tend to passively go through things or reflect on them before they invoke action. They like to take time on their own to reflect and to revitalize their energy. Instead of directing their energy into people and objects like extraversion, introverts like to direct their energy inward on concepts and thoughts within their own minds. They like to go over things within themselves first before divulging with others.

Perceiving Functions

The first two of the functions are sensing and iNtuition which show us how we personally bring in information and how we interpret it and understand it. Each person is different depending on their preference on how they choose to take in the information.

Sensing

If when doing the test, you come up with sensing as your preference, you like your information to be tangible and right in front of you. You usually base your instincts on logic and what you can clearly see the origins. You base what you believe in fact and stick to what you know based on data more than abstract ideas or feelings.

iNtuition If after your test you receive an “N” in your results, this means you are intuitive, which means you like to take your clarity from abstract ideas and rely on feeling above known fact. They like how data and information can relate to theory or things that come from the unconcious mind. They are more of the free-thinkers and therefore base their assumptions on free-thought rather than concrete data or details.

Judging Functions

The two judging functions in your score are thinking and feeling which are decision-making functions. These functions take the information that’s been processed with the two functions listed above and rationalize them using these features. The thing about these judgment features is that a preference of one or the other does not mean you “think better” or your more “emotionally inclined”. It just means in some situations, it’s more of your personality to choose that side, and things change in every incident you encounter.

Thinking

If you found a T in your code, chances are you like to go things with reason and concern to logic and rules. You like to take a standpoint that makes sense and measure something’s rationality based on a set of regulations or controls. The thinking function although it can be part of your personality type can be interchangeable in different situations as can the other functions within this test.

Feeling If you received a F in your test results, it stands for feeling, which means that you come to decisions in your rationalization through weighing the situation based on keeping a harmony with the people you know or the situations you’re involved with. It is more important to you to keep the relationships, friendships and social situations balanced and accounted for in your decisions more than pure fact or logic.

Lifestyle Functions

This features just brings together the concepts of the first judging or perceiving features into another perspective. Therefore TJ (thinking and judging) will be more logically thinking and grounded where as FJ (feeling and judging) will be more empathetically grounded. In the same way SP (Sensing Judging) are more concrete and NP (iNtuition and Judging) tend to be more abstract. The whole idea of the last letter is to just see where your preferences lie in terms of how they react and interact.

With these descriptions, you’ll then be able to figure out what kind of personality you are and what work suits you best. For example, if you are more of an NF, iNtuitive and Feeling, then maybe a career in psychology, where you can interact with others and use your nature of listening and responding to it’s preferred potential. Or if you’ve gotten the letters of TJ, maybe a job such as a financial consultant would be a better choice since you’re very much akin to rationalization and analyzing.

References:
Wikipedia. “Myers- Briggs Type Test”. Last Editted on July 10th, 2008.
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