MYERS BRIGGS PERSONALITY TEST

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

These tests were developed by Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers. They began creating the indicator during WWII, believing that a knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering into the industrial workforce in wartime jobs.

In 1962, the questionnaire had grown into the Briggs-Myers Type Indicator. All of this started with Jung's book, written in the twenties called, Psychological Types. The original German language edition, "Psychologische Typen" was published in 1921. In the book Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function.

The eight psychological types are categorized as follows

Extroverted Sensation
Introverted Sensation
Extroverted Intuition
Introverted Intuition
Extroverted Thinking
Introverted Thinking
Extroverted Feeling
Introverted Feeling

perceiving functions are:
Sensation and Intuition

judging functions are:
Thinking and feeling

attitude functions are:
Introverted
Extroverted

Jung theorized that whichever function dominates consciousness its opposite function is repressed and will characterize unconscious behavior

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