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Myers & Briggs' 16 Personality Types
Explore our in-depth descriptions of each of the 16 personality types to learn more about yourself and your loved ones. Or, if you're not sure which personality type fits you, take our free personality test.
The 16 personality types were created by Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs, developers of the MBTI® assessment. Myers and Briggs created their personality typology to help people discover their own strengths and gain a better understanding of how people are different.
When you discover your own personality type, you'll understand more clearly why you do the things you do. You will gain confidence in your strengths and be better able to make decisions that suit your true nature.
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INFP
The Healer
INFPs are imaginative idealists, guided by their own core values and beliefs. To a Healer, possibilities are paramount; the reality of the moment is only of passing concern. They see potential for a better future, and pursue truth and meaning with their own flair.
INTJ
The Mastermind
INTJs are analytical problem-solvers, eager to improve systems and processes with their innovative ideas. They have a talent for seeing possibilities for improvement, whether at work, at home, or in themselves.
INFJ
The Counselor
INFJs are creative nurturers with a strong sense of personal integrity and a drive to help others realize their potential. Creative and dedicated, they have a talent for helping others with original solutions to their personal challenges.
INTP
The Architect
INTPs are philosophical innovators, fascinated by logical analysis, systems, and design. They are preoccupied with theory, and search for the universal law behind everything they see. They want to understand the unifying themes of life, in all their complexity.
ENFP
The Champion
ENFPs are people-centered creators with a focus on possibilities and a contagious enthusiasm for new ideas, people and activities.
Energetic, warm, and passionate, ENFPs love to help other people explore their creative potential.
ENTJ
The Commander
ENTJs are strategic leaders, motivated to organize change. They are quick to see inefficiency and conceptualize new solutions, and enjoy developing long-range plans to accomplish their vision. They excel at logical reasoning and are usually articulate and quick-witted.
ENTP
The Visionary
ENTPs are inspired innovators, motivated to find new solutions to intellectually challenging problems. They are curious and clever, and seek to comprehend the people, systems, and principles that surround them.
ENFJ
The Teacher
ENFJs are idealist organizers, driven to implement their vision of what is best for humanity. They often act as catalysts for human growth because of their ability to see potential in other people and their charisma in persuading others to their ideas.
ISFJ
The Protector
ISFJs are industrious caretakers, loyal to traditions and organizations.
They are practical, compassionate, and caring, and are motivated to provide for others and protect them from the perils of life.
ISFP
The Composer
ISFPs are gentle caretakers who live in the present moment and enjoy their surroundings with cheerful, low-key enthusiasm. They are flexible and spontaneous, and like to go with the flow to enjoy what life has to offer.
ISTJ
The Inspector
ISTJs are responsible organizers, driven to create and enforce order within systems and institutions. They are neat and orderly, inside and out, and tend to have a procedure for everything they do.
ISTP
The Craftsperson
ISTPs are observant artisans with an understanding of mechanics and an interest in troubleshooting. They approach their environments with a flexible logic, looking for practical solutions to the problems at hand.
ESFJ
The Provider
ESFJs are conscientious helpers, sensitive to the needs of others and energetically dedicated to their responsibilities.
They are highly attuned to their emotional environment and attentive to both the feelings of others and the perception others have of them.
ESFP
The Performer
ESFPs are vivacious entertainers who charm and engage those around them. They are spontaneous, energetic, and fun-loving, and take pleasure in the things around them: food, clothes, nature, animals, and especially people.
ESTJ
The Supervisor
ESTJs are hardworking traditionalists, eager to take charge in organizing projects and people. Orderly, rule-abiding, and conscientious, ESTJs like to get things done, and tend to go about projects in a systematic, methodical way.
ESTP
The Dynamo
ESTPs are energetic thrillseekers who are at their best when putting out fires, whether literal or metaphorical. They bring a sense of dynamic energy to their interactions with others and the world around them.
Personality typing is a system of categorizing people according to their tendencies to think and act in particular ways.
Personality typing attempts to find the broadest, most important ways in which people are different, and make sense of these differences by sorting people into meaningful groups.
What is personality typing?
The personality types described here were created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, in the 1960's. Their theories were based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung, although they extended his ideas to create a more complete framework of personality typing. Myers and Briggs proposed that there were four key dimensions that could be used to categorize people:
- Introversion vs. Extraversion
- Sensing vs. Intuition
- Thinking vs. Feeling
- Judging vs. Perceiving
Each of the four dimensions was described as a dichotomy, or an either/or choice between two styles of being. Myers and Briggs described this as a "preference" and proposed that any individual should be able to identify a preferred style on each of the four dimensions.
The sum of a person's four preferred styles becomes their personality type.
Myers and Briggs theorized that our preferences on each of the four dimensions would combine to create predictable patterns in thought and behavior, so that people with the same four preferences would share many commonalities in the way they approach their lives, from the hobbies they choose to the work that might suit them.
What is the meaning of the four letters in a personality type?
Each of the four letters in a personality type code stands for a preference in your style of thinking or behaving.
I/E: Introversion or Extraversion
The Introversion/Extraversion dimension describes how a person manages their energy.
Introverts are energized by spending quiet time alone or with a small group. They tend to be more reserved and thoughtful.
Extraverts are energized by spending time with people and in busy, active surroundings. They tend to be more expressive and outspoken.
S/N: Sensing or iNtuition
The Sensing/Intuition dimension describes how an individual processes information.
Sensors focus on their five senses and are interested in information they can directly see, hear, feel, and so on. They tend to be hands-on learners and are often described as "practical."
Intuitives focus on a more abstract level of thinking; they are more interested in theories, patterns, and explanations. They are often more concerned with the future than the present and are often described as "creative."
T/F: Thinking or Feeling
The Thinking/Feeling dimension describes how people make decisions.
Thinkers tend to make decisions with their heads; they are interested in finding the most logical, reasonable choice.
Feelers tend to make decisions with their hearts; they are interested in how a decision will affect people, and whether it fits in with their values.
J/P: Judging or Perceiving
The Judging/Perceiving dimension describes how people approach structure in their lives.
Judgers appreciate structure and order; they like things planned, and dislike last-minute changes.
Perceivers appreciate flexibility and spontaneity; they like to leave things open so they can change their minds.
How do I know which personality type I am?
Easy—take our in-depth personality type test!
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The Myers & Briggs Foundation
Isabel Myers (1897-1980) and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968),
developers of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, shared
a vision.
They wanted to enable individuals to grow through an understanding
and appreciation of individual differences in healthy personalities and to enhance
harmony and productivity in diverse groups. (For more details about this mother-daughter
team, refer to the biography Katharine and Isabel: Mother's Light, Daughter's
Journey by Frances Wright Saunders.)
From the time she was a young girl, the vision of Katharine Briggs was to understand
human development and to discover the keys that would enable each individual
to reach his or her full potential. She observed differences in personality
among healthy effective people in the world around her and became determined
to understand and describe the origin of and the reasons for the differences.
After years of gradually creating her own formulation, she discovered and adopted
the ideas and framework expressed by C. G. Jung in his book, Psychological
Types.
The rest of her life was focused on studying the works of Jung and
striving to bring the potential benefits of knowing and applying his ideas to
the world.
Katharine and Isabel encountered Jung's ideas in 1923. They decided his ideas were so powerful that they could help people make better life choices and use individual differences in constructive ways. Thus they began two decades of "type watching."
After several years of adding her own observations to those of Jung, Isabel Myers, a graduate of SwarthmoreCollege, began creating a paper-and-pencil questionnaire to assess type. The MBTI® instrument was developed over the next three decades as research was collected from thousands of people. Research on the MBTI instrument has continued into the present, with dozens of articles published each year.
The type descriptions of Jung and Myers capture
the essence of the types. The MBTI questionnaire helps people identify
the type that fits best.
It points people to a description to "try on for size."
This was the first step in helping people determine their best-fit type.
The mission of Isabel Myers in the second half of her life was to accomplish what she saw as a foundation piece of her mother's vision. This meant giving individuals access to and understanding of their Jungian preferences through the development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument. Her life and work were focused on developing the most accurate instrument possible and validating both the instrument and related theory through research. From the very beginning, she became intensely interested in exploring individual differences within type and effective type development.
In 1975, Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc. (now
called The Myers-Briggs Company) began publishing the MBTI instrument for practical
applications instead of only for research. In that same year, Isabel Myers and
Mary McCaulley, Ph.
D., co-founded the Center for Applications of Psychological
Type (CAPT®), a nonprofit organization that supports research of the MBTI
instrument.
Since the publication of the MBTI instrument,
applications and research on type have expanded nationally and
internationally. The MBTI
instrument has been officially translated into thirty languages.
Since type describes differences in how people approach the world,
take in information, and make decisions, it relates to situations
people encounter every day. Articles and books have been written
about how to use type in education, careers, management, leadership,
intimate relationships, counseling, parenting, children, teamwork,
spirituality, lifelong development, and other areas of interest
for people using type.
Development and applications of psychological type are founded on the idea that understanding your type can help you (a) appreciate your own strengths, gifts, and potential developmental needs, and (b) help you understand and appreciate how other people may differ from you.
Everything you need to know about MBTI (Myers-Briggs Typology) in one place
An article by Elena Lustina, a certified MBTI practitioner and author of the project about 16 types of MBTI
Online MBTI test
Many people are interested in how to pass the MBTI test and determine your type by MBTI. I will say right away - you can take the MBTI test only from a certified MBTI practitioner using the online link , which he will provide you with and only in this way.
All other tests are analog developments based on the methodology developed by Jung, Isabelle Briggs and Katharina Meyers.
But you can also take the free Personality Test, which will give you a variant of your personality type.
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MBTI personality types or
types of Mayers-Briggs
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Complexly conceptual types Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, exists 16 MBTI personality types.
Each type is based on the choice of one of the preferences according to 4 dichotomies:
1. E-I scale - energy orientation:
E ( E xtraversion, extraversion) - orientation to the outside world,
I ( I ntroversion, introversion) - orientation to the inner world.
2. Scale S—N — perception of information:
S ( S ensing, feeling) — reliance on facts, details, specifics, statistics,
N (i N tuition, intuition) - focus on possibilities, ideas, abstraction.
3. T-F scale - decision making:
T ( T hinking, thinking) - objective analysis prevails,
F ( F eeling, feeling) - decisions based on value choices prevail.
4. J-P scale - action:
J0018 P ( P erception, perception) - preference to act without a plan, according to circumstances.
Descriptions for 16 types here.
The combination of scales gives the designation of one of the 16 types of MBTI, for example:
MBTI type - ISFJ - is a person who:
I - focused on the inner world
S - appreciates facts and specifics
F - trusts his feelings in decision making
J - prefers a structured and planned life
MBTI type - ENTP - is a person who:
E - is energized by new events, actions and people
N - likes to work with ideas and abstractions
T - operates with logic in making decisions
P - prefers freedom and unpredictability
If you do not know your personality type according to the Myers-Briggs approach, determine it by taking the test.
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What do you need to know about MBTI
Typology Mayers-Briggs and MBTI are not synonymous concepts, despite the fact that most people use them without distinguishing context
MBTI:
- self-knowledge and personal growth;
- career development and career guidance;
- conflict resolution;
- team building;
- people management;
- leadership development;
- problem solving;
- family counseling;
- education;
- coaching;
- improvement of interpersonal interaction.
MBTI is the abbreviation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Diagnostic Questionnaire and hence the term applies to any results, products and solutions using it.
For example, a team diagnostic session using MBTI, a feedback session on MBTI, etc.
Facts about the MBTI questionnaire:
- Transferred to 30+ languages
- is the most widespread personal questionnaire in the world
- more than 2 million people are held annually
- applied in 89 compounds from TOP100 in the world
- Only specialists who have passed special certification can use the questionnaire in their work.
MBTI 9 Certified0011
This is a training that you can take either European or American standards. I received my US certification in Florida from the CAPT Center for Applications of Psychological Type. This certification gave me the right to work with two MBTI tools at once - MBTI Step 1 and MBTI Step 2. What is the difference between MBTI Step 1 and MBTI Step 2 can be seen in the example of reports, in MBTI Step 2 - the report shows an individual profile for 20 characteristics along with with type.
The MBTI Step 1 report is used for type identification and verification. When a type is correctly defined, you learn the application areas of your type knowledge and how to use it in an organization or career. You can work with the questionnaire both individually and diagnosing a management team.
Myers-Briggs Typology
The Myers-Briggs Typology is a personality model developed by Americans Isabelle Myers and Katharina Briggs based on the work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
Unlike Jung, who was more interested in clinical cases, Myers and Briggs adapted and developed Jung's ideas, focusing on how knowledge of psychological types can help healthy people in everyday life.
Myers and Briggs sought to create a simple and understandable model that describes the differences between people in a constructive manner in order to reduce unnecessary tension and the number of conflicts in interaction.
Now their approach is widely known in the world and is used to solve a wide range of tasks (from building a personal brand and developing teams to developing personnel).
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Show more articles0018 MBTI Certified Practitioner, Psychologist, Coach Myers-Briggs Personality Types (MBTI)Books Briefly. The main ideas of useful books. A gift for you!We will send you a review of a useful book. Traps of thinking. How to Make Decisions You Won't Regret Chip Heath, Dan Heath Much has been written about the Myers-Briggs personality typology, either a lot and incomprehensible, or little and even more obscure. And, despite the fact that the test for its definition is often criticized, it remains an important key to understanding personality characteristics. Generally speaking, it determines how people perceive the world and make decisions. Many Western companies require the Myers-Briggs test for employment. Also, according to the authors of Wikipedia, about 70% of American graduates are tested in order to find out their strengths and choose their future profession. Brief history The prehistory of the appearance of typology goes back to the works of Carl Jung, who, in his book Psychological Types, published in 1921, suggested that there are four main psychological functions that help a person perceive the world. It happened during the Second World War. It was then that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator appeared (MBTI - typology proper, the term "socionics" is also often used). It was not a "naked" theory - the researchers relied on original tests, compiled by them. The purpose of the research was the most noble: on the basis of testing, to determine individual personal preferences in work and to select women who were supposed to replace men who had gone into the army in the workplace, where they could show their talents at their true worth. The essence of the MBTI psychological testing system is that, by measuring the unique combinations of a person's personality factors, it is possible to predict his inclination to a certain type of activity, his style of action, the nature of his decisions and other features that allow him to feel comfortable and confident. For and what were invented, 4 scales (descriptors), according to which the personality is studied:
Consider each scale in more detail: Scale EI: orientation of consciousness In contrast to extroverts (E-type), whose sociability borders on talkativeness. They are happy to be and work with other people. They solve problems not alone behind closed doors, but through discussion, which allows them to find a compromise. But such situations arise more often - the nature of human communication, and even in abundance, makes itself felt. In simple words, the EI scale tells about the general orientation of consciousness:
SN scale: orientation in the situation N-type is more inclined to rely on intuition. Often these are people with a developed imagination, for whom the world is a concentration of opportunities. They are more casual about the facts, but they are able to see the picture globally, to predict a variety of paths for the development of events. In simple terms, the SN scale reflects the chosen way of orienting in a situation:
TF scale: the basis of decision making F-type is the person from whom you will not write off the problem in physics, but you will be the first to go to him to share your joy or misfortune. These are empaths, for whom the nature of human feelings is almost always more important than everything else. These are people with developed emotional intelligence, and it is he, and not logic, that often guides their actions. In simple words, the TF scale - how a person makes decisions:
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These are thinking, feeling, intuition and sensations. This work was much more fundamental than the ideas of the American Catherine Briggs, who was simply interested in the differences in the characters of different people. But, having become acquainted with Jung's typology, she, supported by her daughter Isabelle Briggs-Myers, began to study this issue in detail and even published a couple of scientific articles. She also singled out four types, and was based, by her own admission, on the works of Jung. But later, the daughter significantly expanded the theory, giving it the outlines of a modern one. 
Already later, in the 1950s and 1960s, prominent scientists spoke positively about the typology, and new experiments were carried out to refine the methodology. But in addition to followers, MBTI also has a number of critics who point out that the Myers-Briggs typology almost duplicates C. Jung's research in the theoretical part and does not always find its validity in practice. 
They can be sociable and sociable, but they draw energy and work better on their own. Such people prefer thoughts, not words, so they always think before they say something. 
They rely on external, already known data and are consistent in their decisions, which are carefully considered and weighed. They are always accurate, guesses that are not confirmed by facts do not matter to them, and only what is happening here and now is of paramount importance. 
T-types are people for whom logic comes first. They follow the voice of reason and make decisions only after careful consideration. Representatives of this type analyze information well, and are also fair and objective. 
