Definition: The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-help assessment test which helps people gain insights about how they work and learn. It is a framework for relationship-building, developing positivism, and achieving excellence.
Description: The MBTI was developed by Katherine Briggs and is based on the typological theory of Carl Jung who had proposed that there are four essential psychological functions by which we see this world.
These functions are sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. All of us rely on one function more than others. The base of MBTI lies in identifying our preferences which are driven through our interests, values, needs, and motivation. Carl Jung came up with this theory through subjective clinical evaluations.
While the theory itself is quite complicated, it essentially categorises you into four types based on where you are most comfortable.
You may be more comfortable dealing with people, things, ideas, and information
You may be more comfortable dealing with facts, reality, possibilities, and potential
You may be more comfortable dealing with logic, truth, values and relationship
A well-managed life i.e. judgement or going with the flow, perception
In the MBTI theory, you combine your preferences to arrive at your personality type. You may be an extrovert who likes dealing with people or you might be someone who likes dealing with abstract ideas or information and in that case you would be an introvert.
Similarly, you can like dealing with facts and information with a preference for sensing or you may want to explore the unknown which makes you an intuitive person.
The third preference relates to how you make decisions. You either decide objectively or based on gut feelings.
Lastly, your lifestyle might be planned and organised or flexible and haphazard.
When you put these preference or types together, it turns into your MBTI personality code which is the output of the MBTI test.
It is the world's most widely used personality assessment test.
Description: The MBTI was developed by Katherine Briggs and is based on the typological theory of Carl Jung who had proposed that there are four essential psychological functions by which we see this world.
These functions are sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. All of us rely on one function more than others. The base of MBTI lies in identifying our preferences which are driven through our interests, values, needs, and motivation. Carl Jung came up with this theory through subjective clinical evaluations.
While the theory itself is quite complicated, it essentially categorises you into four types based on where you are most comfortable.
You may be more comfortable dealing with people, things, ideas, and information
You may be more comfortable dealing with facts, reality, possibilities, and potential
You may be more comfortable dealing with logic, truth, values and relationship
A well-managed life i.e. judgement or going with the flow, perception
In the MBTI theory, you combine your preferences to arrive at your personality type. You may be an extrovert who likes dealing with people or you might be someone who likes dealing with abstract ideas or information and in that case you would be an introvert.
Similarly, you can like dealing with facts and information with a preference for sensing or you may want to explore the unknown which makes you an intuitive person.
The third preference relates to how you make decisions. You either decide objectively or based on gut feelings.
Lastly, your lifestyle might be planned and organised or flexible and haphazard.
When you put these preference or types together, it turns into your MBTI personality code which is the output of the MBTI test.
It is the world's most widely used personality assessment test.
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