![]() ![]() The MBTI results help you to explore and understand your strengths and weaknesses, what your likes and dislikes are and your compatibility with other people. It is not designed to be a screening test for employment or as a decision-making tool in considering an employee for promotion, but rather a tool for self-assessment. The MBTI is used to assess personality and understand the way that seemingly random variations in behavior are actually quite orderly and consistent. The model assigns personality traits based on the answers to ‘either/or' questions and each of the sixteen possible results is designated with a 4-letter acronym. Jung’s personality theory was based on the four major archetypes the persona (how we present to the world), the shadow (our repressed ideas and weaknesses) the anima/animus (or masculine/feminine features) and the self (unified conscious and unconscious).įrom these major archetypes, there are many 'lesser' archetypes based around a higher focus on one or another, such as the caregiver, the ruler, the rebel, the jester, the hero, and the lover – and Jung said these can be found universally in the collective unconscious. The Myers-Briggs model took Jung’s archetypal personality descriptions and expanded on them, creating a usable methodology that could reliably assess each test-taker and place them in one of 16 personality brackets. ![]()
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