Meyers Briggs

The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality inventory that was developed by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. There are many sites that will allow you to take the test, however there is not a huge amount that will allow you to take the meyers briggs test free of charge.

The history of meyers-briggs test is that it was actually first developed for women during the second world war to help them to identify which war-time jobs would be most suitable for them. The meyer-briggs personality test itself is based on the theories found in Psychological types by Carl Jung (1921).

Comparison to Big Five Factor

The Free Personality Test that can be found on this site is based on the Big Five Factor inventory which include Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness and Conscientousness. Studies have been conducted by McCrae & Costa that attempt to analyse the Big Five Factor and find its relationship to the meyers briggs test.

These studies indicate that four of the Big Five inventory items are correlated with the meyers-briggs type indicator factors of E-I (Extraversion-Intraversion), S-N (Sensing-Intuition), T-F (Thinking-Feeling) and J-P (Judging-Percieving).

Extraversion is obviously fairly strongly related to E-I (75% correlation) as they are measuring what is essentially described as the same factor. Openness to Experience is fairly strongly related to S-N (72% correlation), however J-P is only moderately related to conscientiousness (49% correlation), and T-F has the lowest correlation with only a 44% correlation to Agreeableness. The Big Five factor is also a more comprehensive indicator than the meyers-briggs type indicator in that it measures emotional stability as well.

This data has lead to the conclusion that the theory begin the meyers briggs test is either incorrect or inadequately operationalized by the test itself.

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