M- Myers

B- Briggs
T- Type
I- Indicator
 WHAT IS MBTI ?
THE MBTI IS :-
 A self report instrument
 Non judgmental
 An indicator of preferences
 Well researched
 Rich in theory
 Professionally interpreted
 Used internationally
 A way to sort, not to measure
 HISTORY OF MBTI
 Based on Swiss psychologist Carl G Jung’s type theory ( 1920s )
 Behavior is individual and predictable
 Developed by Katherine Briggs ( mother ) and Isabel Myers ( daughter )
1940s
 The most widely used personality indicator in the world
 Approximately 1 to 3 million people are administered by MBTI each
year
THE MBTI DOES NOT MEASURE
 IQ
 Psychiatric disturbances
 Emotions
 Trauma
 Stress
 Learning
 Normalcy
 Maturity
 Illness
 Affluence
 PREFERENCE SCALES

 Extraversion -------------- Introversion

Sensing -------------- I ntuition
Thinking ------------- Feeling
Judging -------------- Perception
 Extravert :-action oriented
 Introvert :-contemplative
 Sensing :-pragmatic
 Intuition :-visionary
 Thinking :-logical
 Feeling :-compassionate
 Judging :-planful
 Perceiving :-adaptable
 E-I DICHOTOMY

Extraversion INTROVERSION
 Attention Focused Outward People,  Attention Focused Inward
Things, Action Concepts, Ideas, Feelings
 Using Trial And Errors With
 Considering Deeply
Confidence
Before Acting
 Relaxed And Confident
 Reserved And
 Scanning The Environment For
Questioning
Stimulation
 Probing Inwardly For
 Seeks Variety And Action Stimulation
 Wants To Be With Others  Seeks Quiet For
 Live It, Then Understand It Concentration
 Wants Time To Be
Alone
 Understand It Before, Live It
 S-N DICHOTOMY
Sensing
 Perceiving With The 5 Senses
 Reliance On Experience And
Actual Data
 Practical
 In Touch With Physical Realities
 Attending To The Present
Moment
 Live Life As It Is
 Prefer Using Learned Skills
 Pay Attention To Details
 Make Few Factual Errors
INTUITION
 Perceiving With Memory And
Association (6th Sense)
 Seeing Patterns And
Meanings
 Innovation
 Seeing Possibilities
 Future Achivement
 Projecting Possibilities For The
Future
 Change, Rearrange Life
 Prefers Adding New Skills
 Look At Big Picture
 Identifies Complex Pattern
 T-F DICHOTOMY

THINKING
 Decision Based On The Logic Of
The Situation
 Uses Cause And Effect Reasoning
 Strive For An Objective Standard
Of Truth
 Can Be Tough-minded
FEELING
 Decisions Based On Impact On
People
 Guided By Personal Values
 Strive For Harmony And
Positive Interaction
 May Appear Tender Hearted

 Fair- Want Everyone Treated  Fair-want Everyone Treated

Equally As An Individual
 J-P DICHOTOMY
 Focuses on completing
task
Deciding and planning
 Focuses on starting task
 Organizing and Taking in information
 scheduling  Adapting and changing
 Controlling and  Curious and interested
 Open minded
regulating
 Resisting closure in
 Controlling and regulating
 order to obtain more data
Wanting closure even when
 Wants to find out about
data are incomplete
 the job
 Wants only the essentials of
the job
 ADVANTAGES OF MBTI
 Self awareness for better self- management
 Identification of behaviour trends that have positive
outcomes
 Identification of behaviour trends that have less
desirable outcomes
 Link trends with other data points to clarify personal
or professional developmental opportunities
 DISADVANTAGES OF MBTI
 Trying to predict others behaviour
 Trying to estimate another individual type (eg. You
must be an extravert because you are so gregarious)
 Assuming that how a preference plays for you is
exactly how it would play out for someone else
 Justifying behavior (eg. Declaring that the individual
must be P because he is always late)