MyersBriggs Personality Type Indicator MBTI

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung developed a theory early in the 20th century to describe basic individual preferences and explain similarities and differences between people

Main postulate of the theory is that people have inborn behavioral tendencies and preferences

Your natural response in daily situations

Used when we are generally not stressed and feel competent, and energetic

Could be defined as those behaviors you often don’t notice

Jung’s theory important but inaccessible to the general population

Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs (mother-daughter team) expanded on Jung’s work by developing an instrument to help people identify their preferences

The MBTI tool is an indicator of personality type (i.e. innate preferences) that has proven to be remarkably reliable and valid

Represents the result of over 50 years of research

Is used globally in both education and corporate settings; over 2 million people each year