Research: Jung, Myers, and Briggs

Hello Readers,

For this blog entry I decided to give some more background information on my topic and to show the extensive research that has been done on personality typing.

Research has indicated that that many different personality types tend to have distinct preference in their choice of careers. Based off of well-known research conducted by Carl Jung, Katherine Briggs, and Isabel Myers there are sixteen prominent personality types that have shown a preference towards some and not others.

Carl Jung first developed the theory that every individual has a personality type, where there are two basic kinds of functions: how we perceive things (how we take in information), and how we make decisions (what we base decisions off of). Jung adamantly believed that these two functions were complete opposites. He viewed that within these two categories there were many other options. He believed that one had the ability to perceive information through either ones’ senses or ones’ intuition, but he also believed that one could make decisions based on objective logic as well as subjective emotions. Jung believed that one uses all four functions in our lives, but the frequency that we use them is determined entirely within the individual. His research led him to believe that there is an order of preference of these functions within individuals, where an individual uses their dominant function first, and then relies on auxiliary, and tertiary, and inferior functions that follow up behind. Jung also believed that the dominant factor was so important that it overshadowed all the other functions following the dominant factors: Extroverted and Introverted.

In conclusion, Jung found and determined eight differing personality types:

·      Extraverted Sensing

·      Introverted Sensing

·      Extraverted Intuition

·      Introverted Intuition

·      Extraverted Thinking

·      Introverted Thinking

·      Extraverted Feeling

·      Introverted Feeling

Jung’s work was later extrapolated and made into Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers own personality test. The mother and daughter duo studied extensively on the work of Jung, and in 1962, they published their own questionnaire: the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The results yielded were similar to those of Jung, but the results that Myers and Briggs made differed greatly. Myers and Briggs results differed in their concept of whether a given personality type's (extrovert or introvert) fourth letter J or P (Judging or Perception) was determined by how that type interacts with the external world, rather than by the type's dominant function as Jung hypothesized.

 

This yielded an additional eight spectrums of personality types:

·      (Modern types: ESFP, ESTP)

·      (Modern types: ISTJ, ISFJ)

·      (Modern types: ENFP, ENTP)

·      (Modern types: INFJ, INTJ)

·      (Modern types: ESTJ, ENTJ)

·      (Modern types: ISTP, INTP)

·      (Modern types: ESFJ, ENFJ)

·      (Modern types: INFP, ISFP)

This is where I will leave now,

Thanks for reading!