The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment tool developed in the 1940s based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. It assesses preferences in four dichotomies: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving. Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers created the MBTI to help people better understand individual differences. The MBTI is the most widely used personality indicator in the world and provides self-awareness that can help with self-management and understanding behavior trends. However, it does not measure traits like IQ or psychiatric disturbances.

1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)

2. Personality
The relatively stable set of characteristics that
influences an individual’s behavior and lend it
consistency.

3. A BIT OF HISTORY
• Based on Swiss psychologist Carl G Jung’s type
theory (1920s)
• Behaviour is individual and predictable
• Developed by Katherine Briggs (mother) and Isabel
Myers (daughter) 1940s
• The most widely used personality indicator in the
world
• Approximately 1 to 3 million people are
administered by MBTI each year

4. MOTHER-DAUGHTER

5. Myers and Briggs developed the MBTI
to understand individual differences
by analyzing the combinations of
preferences.

6. UNDERSTANDING
PERSONALITIES

7. EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION
Interest Orientation
E I-TALKATIVE
-SOCIABLE
-FRIENDLY
-OUTSPOKEN
SHY
RESERVED
QUITE
HOW DO YOU GET YOUR ENERGY?

8. SENSING INTUITION
Perception
S N-ORGANISED
-PRACTICAL
-FOCUS
DETAIL
-LESS REGULAR,
-UNCONSCIOUS,
-FOCUS BIG
PICTURE
HOW DO YOU SEE THE WORLD & GATHER INFORMATION?

9. THINKING FEELING
Judgment
T FReliability
of logical
order –
cause and
effect,
Apathy
Priorities
based on
personal
importance
and values,
Sympathy
HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR DECISIONS?

10. JUDGMENT PERCEPTION
Environment Orientation
J P
-JUDGING
-ATTITUDE
-CONTROL
OF EVENTS
AND
SYSTEMATI
C PLANNING
-SPONTANEIY
-CURIOUS,
-AWAITING
-EVENTS AND
ADAPTING TO
THEM
-FLEXIBLE
HOW MUCH DO YOU LIKE TO PLAN AHEAD?

12. ADVANTAGES OF MBTI
• Self awareness for better self- management
• Identification of behavior trends that have
positive outcomes
• Identification of behavior trends that have
less desirable outcomes
• Link trends with other data points to clarify
personal or professional developmental
opportunities

13. DISADVANTAGES OF MBTI
• Trying to predict others behavior
• Trying to estimate another individual type (eg. You
must be an extravert because you are so gregarious)
• Assuming that how a preference plays for you is
exactly how it would play out for someone else
• Justifying behavior (eg. Declaring that the individual
must be P because he is always late)

14. THE MBTI IS
• A SELF REPORT INSTRUMENT
• NON JUDGMENTAL
• AN INDICATOR OF PREFERENCES
• WELL RESEARCHED
• RICH IN THEORY
• PROFESSIONALLY INTERPRETED
• USED INTERNATIONALLY
• A WAY TO SORT, NOT TO MEASURE

15. THE MBTI DOES NOT MEASURE
• IQ
• PSYCHIATRIC DISTURBANCES
• EMOTIONS
• TRAUMA
• STRESS
• LEARNING
• NORMALCY
• MATURITY
• ILLNESS
• AFFLUENCE

16. THANK YOU