In Defense of the Myers-Briggs Type

Introduction

Psychology, scientific discipline in the study of human behavior and animal, is a young science. Before the end of the 19th century, the study of "mind" was a discipline practiced as spiritual or philosophical effort. Why psychology is a science, we should expect a continual evolution of psychological theory as well as tweaking and revision of existing theories.

A brief history of psychology

In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist used laboratory setting to run psychological experiments. He is also known as "father of experimental psychology", later known as structuralism.

William James, philosopher, psychologist and scientist, American introduced the concept that the practice of psychological theory should have the practicality. Or use psychological theory to bring tangible benefits to people.

Sigmund Freud introduced the psychoanalytic techniques to discover the causes of behavior. One of Freud's protected was psychiatrist Carl Young, who later broke with Freud and developed his theory of analytical psychology. Carl Jung was the first to declare the psychological makeup of a religious person by nature. He called the trial of a person becoming everything as "Discovery". Discovery is the process of balancing opposites, namely, the unconscious conscious, but while retaining a measure of separateness. In fact, the basic concept of analytical psychology is discovery.

Jung postulated then the reality of two distinct groupings of psychological functions: judging the "rational" functions-feeling and thinking and perceiving functions "irrational"-intuition and sensing.

Jung later stated that the dichotomies are projected in a fashion extrovert or introvert.

An analogy of these dichotomies is seen in the expression of right or left handedness handedness. One develops early in life or is born with it

The Myers-Briggs Type

From Jung's original concepts, Briggs and Myers developed their own theory of psychological type, on which the MBTI is based.

Worked on the MBTI in WWII as a tool to help women in industry zero during the war on the quality of work that would be more satisfied. The first test has evolved in the MBTI in 1962.

Mother Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs has started to investigate the personality traits in 1917. Saw personality differences among members of the same family. He identified the connection between the theory of Jung and his own. Types of personality of Katherine Briggs four were then paired with is, EPs, ETJs and EFJs.

Daughter Isabel advanced by her mother, who she has completely taken over when his mother withdrew.

The MBTI has been used for over 50 years as a tool to bring tangible benefits to people. It is a measure of personality preferences. That is, as the relative strength of the preferences of a person's personality is used to navigate psychologically worldwide.

Sustainable use of the MBTI is in the field of career counseling. The MBTI career report helps people on labor camps that others with their own personality type have reported a high degree of satisfaction. As such, the MBTI career report is a tool to test statistically valid.

Can be used as a starting point for researching careers and one of the many tools and career guidance counsellors, life coaches and corporate executives can use to help others to achieve a high degree of job satisfaction.

Criticism of the MBTI is centered on two points of contention. (1) in the decades, the MBTI has sometimes been used inappropriately, as a means of psycho-therapeutic or as an instrument of testing forced within the company environment. (2) Conflicting Studies questioning the validity of the MBTI as a predictor of job satisfaction.

The MBTI is not to be used as an end all and be all in gaining understanding of personality preferences. The same can be said of any instrument of experimentation in the field of psychology. Human behavior is a manifestation of the complex network of biological imperatives, yet rigid psychological identifiable intangible reasons based on moral values, ethics, and spirituality. Use of the MBTI must be kept in perspective, and applied in the context of this complexity.

For many, job satisfaction can be an ideal, a goal that is never fully achieved. Many factors can affect the satisfaction of career in addition to working a job that is complementary to the preferences of a person's personality, including the health of a person's interpersonal relationships and age of the person. A job that is attractive for a period of 20 years might be less fulfilling a period of 40 years.

Conclusion

Use the type indicator, Myers-Briggs as a predictor of career satisfaction is one of a series of tools that can be used by one person to gain perspective on what career can demonstrate that it meets. Similarly, the MBTI is a tool useful and interesting for help understanding how a psychologically navigates through life. Using the MBTI ideally should be combined with other tools and information to help a person to identify fulfilling careers.

Stephen R Tiebout has over 20 years experience helping people discover their personality type, preferably using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. He is the administrator of Ransdell-Associates.com, a portal for the MBTI test. For more information about personal relationships and MBTI http://ransdellassociates.com/, visit.