Myers-Briggs Type Theory Applied to Career

Jung. (1921/1971). Psychological Types Concerned with what people pay attention to their world, And how they make decisions based on what they see.

Myers-Briggs typology used Jung’s work, defining 4 bi-polar categories. Perception-Judgment Extroversion-Introversion Sensing-Intuitive Thinking-Feeling

Myers-Briggs typology The two most basic concepts are those of Perception-judgment and Extraversion-introversion

Perceiving & Judging According to Myers, much of an individual’s mental activity is devoted to perceiving and/or judging. Making conclusions about Perceiving observed the world events, people, ideas

Two Ways of Perceiving Sensing: Refers to taking in information by using visual and auditory processes along with smell, taste, and touch. Intuition: Concerns the use of the unconscious. Insight into observations and ideas.

Two ways of Judging Thinking Refers to analyzing and being objective about observed idea or event. Concerned with logic and analysis. Feeling Refers to deciding based on the values applied to observations or ideas (Myers).

Combinations of Perceiving and Judging Sensing and thinking: Focus on collecting facts that can be verified by their observations. Sensing and Feeling: Relying on vision, hearing and other sensed, they are aware of the importance of feelings when making decisions. Intuition and Feeling: Relying on hunches and feelings about observations. Intuition and Thinking: Likely to make decisions based on analysis that uses hunches and projections.

Preference fro Perception or Judgment Perception Make decisions by weighing facts. Judgment Make decisions using relatively few facts.

Extraversion and Introversion Extraversion Refers to using perceptions and judgments in the outer world. The dominant process is the outer world of people and things. Introversion Refers to making perceptions and judgments based on one’s interests in one’s inner world. The dominant process is with ideas and thoughts.

Interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Myers & McCaulley (1985). See these types as gifts or attributes that people make use of. They discourage the notion that there are only 16 types of people in the world and that all people with a category are similar to each other.

Interpretation: Think of the last letter of the type code as determining the dominant or auxiliary process. If the last letter is P, then the style of perceiving (either intuitive or sensing) is the key process. If the last letter is J, then the style of judging (either thinking or feeling) is the key process.

Interpretation: Auxiliary process Is the operating one, It is the lieutenant. Extraverts The last letter of the code (J or P) indicates the dominant process. Introverts The last letter indicates the auxiliary function. Dominant Process Is the guiding one, It is the general.

Interpretation Introverts Use their dominant process for the inner world And their auxiliary process for the outer world Extraverts Use their auxiliary process for the inner world And their dominant process for the outer world.

Interpretation Introverts Whose dominant process is judging (thinking or feeling) show perceptiveness of their auxiliary process in dealing with the outer world and live their lives in this perceptual frame. The inner judgingness is not apparent to others. Whose dominant process is perceptive (sensing and intuition) do not outwardly behave as if they were perceptive people. They show the judgingness of the auxiliary process. Others may see then as leading their outer lives in the judging attitude.