Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

For this week’s assignment in PCN-525, counselors are asked to choose a particular instrument which measures a psychological-personal characteristic. This counselor’s choice would be Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This assessment tool is a psychometric set of questions that looks at how we make decisions based on our perception of the world. This assessment was originally developed by a mother and daughter team that had studied the work of Carl Gustav Jung. They took Jung’s theory of four domains and turned it into a practical working model for women interning into the World War II industrial job market: with hopes of creating a situation where the ladies would find jobs that are "most comfortable and effective" (Myers, 1980). The premise of this assessment starts with Jung’s idea of people having two dichotomous pairs: * thinking and feeling * sensation and intuition
The first we refer to as being rational cognitive functions and the second as being the opposite. Dichotomies | Extraversion (E) | – | (I) Introversion | Sensing (S) | – | (N) Intuition | Thinking (T) | – | (F) Feeling | Judging (J) | – | (P) Perception |
(Kaplan,2009)
From this the ladies created 16 possible psychological types. Mathematically there are 16 different combinations, hence the outcome. When the test is done the outcome will like INTJ or ESTP. Today, this test / questionnaire include 93 questions if you’re in the United States and 88 in the forced version from Europe. Each question has only two possible answers. We have to remember that while taking the test that there is no wrong or right answer. The next question is: how well does it work? From the Myers & Brigs foundation comes this reply: “hundreds of studies over the past 40 years have proven the instrument to be both valid and reliable.” However not everyone agrees with that assessment. The Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance and the National Research Council has