MBTI is a personality test classification index. It is a personality assessment test proposed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs in 1942 after long-term research based on Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s book ‘Psychological Types’.
The MBTI is a widely used psychological tool that helps people understand their behavioral patterns, preferences, and how they interact with others. It divides personality traits into four dimensions, each with two tendencies, for a total of eight tendencies. These dimensions are:
- Extroversion (E) and introversion (I): focus on the flow of energy and the direction of attention.
- Sensing (S) and intuition (N): ways of acquiring and processing information.
- Thinking (T) and Feeling (F): the main factors when making decisions.
- Judgment (J) and perception (P): approach to life and organizations.
The tested question-and-answer tendencies are roughly combined into 16 personality types, allowing subjects to further explore and understand their own personality, such as ‘personal likes and dislikes’, ‘strengths and weaknesses’, ‘possible career preferences’ or relationships with others. Interactive style.
Of course, none of the 16 personality types are absolutely good or bad, and no one type is better or worse than the others. The purpose is to understand the truer self, explain that people may have different reactions and emotions when facing the same thing, and different majors and occupations may be more suitable for which type of people.
If you don’t know your MBTI personality type yet, you can take this 28-question simple version of the test.
The higher-scoring letters in each pair represent your four strongest preferences, which, when combined, determine your personality type.
For example, you might be (ENFP), or (ISTJ), or any of the sixteen personality types, depending on the combination of those four letters.
**If the score for your preferred letter is 4, it means the preference is moderate. A score of 5 or 6 indicates a crescendo preference. A score of 7 represents a very strong preference. **
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