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 "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.
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