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Type Indicator (MBTI)
 "Every
person is like every other person, like some other persons, like
no other person."
-- anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn (paraphrased).
What Is the MBTI?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire
scientifically developed to identify valuable
differences between normal people. Your MBTI results will
help you understand yourself and others better, and further enhance
your communication and relationship with the people you interact
with daily, at home or at work.
MBTI helps you identify your natural strengths and your areas
for lifelong personal and professional development. It also helps
you understand and appreciate people who differ from you, and
how you may best communicate and work with them.
The authors of the MBTI, Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel
Myers, studied and elaborated the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist
Carl G. Jung about psychological type. After over 50 years of
solid research and development, the current MBTI is the most widely
used instrument for understanding normal personality differences,
and for a wide variety of purposes.
What Is Psychological Type?
Psychological type is a theory of personality developed by Carl
G. Jung to explain the differences between normal people. Jung
observed that behavioral differences are due to people's innate
tendencies. Such tendencies are expressed as preferences, which
gradually develop into patterns of behavior. Jung's psychological
type theory defines eight different behavioral patterns or types.
Briggs and Myers later made explicit part of Jung's theory and
expanded it to the 16 MBTI types.
How Do I Take the MBTI?
We run workshops in Hong Kong, in English or Chinese, to administer
the MBTI and help you grasp the core concepts to meaningfully
apply to all areas of your life. Please visit www.personality-type-test.com
for details. If you are NOT in Hong Kong, please check out relevant
Google links.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI are registered trademarks
of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.
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