Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg PDF

Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg Unit lecture MBTI myers-brigg type indicator is an extremely popular measurement tool adaptaed from Carl Jung’s psychological types theory of personality...

Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg Unit lecture MBTI myers-brigg type indicator is an extremely popular measurement tool adaptaed from Carl Jung’s psychological types theory of personality psychoanalytic, neuro-freudian fully rejects biology as causing personality personality types theory: introversion vs extraversion → primary trait sensing vs intuition → lower traits feeling vs thinking → lower traits Lower Traits sensing → ppl use thier 5 primary senses intution → referes to finding patterns in the world feeling → reliance on personal values and others’ pov thinking → reliance on logic Jung says these must be ranked: primary → extraversion and intrasversion secondary → differs (some ppl hv intuition vs feeling as seocndary and some hv feeling vs thinking as second) creates 16 types Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg 1  Briggs and Myers (1942) Katherine Briggs → enlists daughter in quest to understand personality add new dimension: judging vs perceiving → do you prefer to plan or are you spontaneous developed letter coding system: ENFP 16 types also goes by name MBTI, 16 types, personailty types indicator, most common places we see MBTI: very popular in popculture (celebrities or fictional characters many companies also use MBTI instrument to assess employee’s personality popularity - world’s most widely used personality test second instrument is big 5 with whom? researched psychologists → very rarely use MBTI bc not a lot of empirical backing companies → frequently use MBTI (89 of Fortune 100 companies) everyday use → 50 mil ppl per year Evaluating/Critiquing MBTI theoretical contradictions: personality is not genetic personality is inborn jung’s theories are interesting, but generally not scientifically rigorous Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg 2  pre behaviourism era valued narrative and anecdotal observation told stories to help us understand what it means to be humam less value placed on empiricism reliability split-half → if a question evaluating one trait is given in another phrasing, person should both choose answer for same trait ex. extraversion → do you like parties? and are you talkative? → answers should be same we want correlation of at least 0.8; MBTI = 0.74; Big Five = 0.89; MMPI = 0.83 other measures of personality matches benchmark, MBTI does not internal consistency → compare answers to each individual question from all individuals who are that trait MBTI = 0.69; Big Five = 0.93; MMPI = 0.89 test-retest 2 month → took MBTI today and again two months from now, are answers same? MBTI = 0.42; Big Five = 0.84; MMPI = 0.84 validity → are yo umeasuing what you say you are measuring concurrent validity → how does the measure correlate w other measures of the same idea big 5 → correlates strongly w other measures like MMPI, HEXACO ( r = 0.8) MBTI → corelates weakly w other measures like MMPI, HEXACO (r = 0.35) how MBTI sees personality is different than other measures of personality predictive validity → making predictions of real world behaviours based on how you scored on personality test Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg 3  big 5 predictive validity: neuroticism → high = mental health diagnosis; low = low GPA, low job performance coscientiousness → high = lifespan, GPA, job performance ; low = MH diagnosis agreaableness → high = GPA, relationship quality; low = income (cannot negotiate income) MBTI predicive validity: type predicts schizotypal diagnosis and OCD thats itttt, not a lot → Big 5 can predict way more we can imagine what the shape of distribution of each MBTI category is extraversion + # of ppl: ppl on extreme ends of extraversion; inside is mistake Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg 4  in reality most ppl somewhere in middle the Big 5 provides more accurate representation of personality traits distribution mostly continuous Myerrs-Brigg (MBTI) forces ppl into binomial categories → unreliable which way you get pushed if ur in middle MBTI Foundation Reply to Criticism not meant to be predictive tell you who you want to be, not who you are; just about preferences not sold on scientific rigor, but on its ability to make the theory of psychological types understandable and useable in ppl’s lives Research on MBTI more than half of literatire is amde or the conference of the association for psycholgical type international or published in journal of pschological type both journals are hosted and published by company ETS ETS Personality Profiles on Big 5 Inventory and Myers Brigg 5