When I took the Myer-Briggs personality test I was put into the ESFJ category‚ also known as the ‘provider’. ESFJ stands for Extraverted‚ Sensing‚ Feeling‚ and Judging. After doing a little more research on the Myer-Brigg personality test‚ I found there were a total of 16 different personality results one could score. I believe I was put into the right category especially after reading the personality description. After taking the personality test I found my personality to be categorized under the
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The Myers-Briggs test involves all the ways of becoming aware of things‚ people‚ happenings‚ or ideas. The test provides insight into personality traits that people possess. It helps people understand their qualities as to know how to plan their lives. With the test‚ it is easier to categorize different characteristics or traits that people might otherwise not be aware of‚ which will help people learn how others could react to something in their environment. Therefore‚ the Myers-Briggs test can be
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This week we began learning more about our own personality type through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment. I am a ISFJ. According to Kummerow and Hirsh (1998)‚ this means I am an introvert who prefers to take in information using my five senses‚ base my decisions on personal and social values‚ and like a planned and organized approach to the outside world (pg. 1). The MBTI score gave me a lot of insight in myself‚ but the most significant thing I learned this week was reading the rest
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According to the Myers-Briggs personality test I am an ENFP. Reading the description I thought it was very accurate. It is said ENFP are warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. Which is true because I’m always interested to try new things I rarely shot down an idea. That we see life with full of possibilities and make connections between events and information very quickly. The world isn’t as simple as black and white that there are fifty shades of gray and I am quick to accept it all. Ready to give
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In the year 1962‚ Psychological pioneers Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers published one of the first modern personality assessment questionnaires. This questionnaire would then be further developed and eventually become one of the most popular personality type indicators in the US. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (or MBTI) was based off of Jung’s theory of psychological types and was designed to help people pinpoint the specifics of their personalities so that they could
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a list of questions that are designed to measure psychological preferences in how they perceive the world and how they make decisions. These preferences were first described by Carl Jung and published in his book Psychological Types. Jung speculated four principal psychological functions by which we experience the world inlcuding: sensation‚ intuition‚ feeling‚ and thinking. Out of these four conditions‚ one is dominant most of the time. I took the
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I. GENERAL INFORMATION For my research‚ I have selected to review the Myers-Briggs type indicator personality test. The authors of the test are Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Katherine and Isabel are a mother and daughter team that worked on the test together. They were influenced by the Swiss psychologist‚ Carl Jung. In 1921‚ he published his ideas regarding different personality. Since Catherine and Isabel had many of the same ideas and agreed with his published work‚ they conducted
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After taking the Myers-Briggs personality type test‚ I received the ISFJ personality type: Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging. While reading the description for ISFJ‚ I could agree with what it was saying almost one hundred percent. The description stated that ISFJs by their desire to serve others and obtain the “need to be needed.” I found that this description fits me very well: I often feel the need to serve and be needed by others. I enjoy helping out in ministry‚ at home‚ and within other homes
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Jungian Personality Type i Reaction to the Personality Type ENTJ Davina Copeland Professor Veronie Lawrence Wright July 25‚ 2013 Jungian Personality Type ii Reaction Paper to Personality Type ENTJ After taking the Personality Test my thinking and reactions are identical to the description of the results. According to Jungian Personality Type my personality code is ENTJ; this is an acronym for Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging. ENTJ’s are described as “focused individual that
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Myers-Briggs Personality Test Q1. Which is your most natural energy orientation? Every person has two faces. One is directed towards the OUTER world of activities‚ excitements‚ people‚ and things. The other is directed inward to the INNER world of thoughts‚ interests‚ ideas‚ and imagination. While these are two different but complementary sides of our nature‚ most people have an innate preference towards energy from either the OUTER or the INNER world. Thus one of their faces‚ either the Extraverted
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