What Is Jungian Personality Self Assessment?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, also known as the Jungian Personality Self-Assessment, allows an individual to explore their psychological personality type by answering a series of questions. The Jungian Personality Self-Assessment was created from Carl Jung's theories of personality types.

History

• Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, created the Jungian Personality Self-Assessment to better help women during World War II enter the workforce. The Jungian Personality Self-Assessment proved a success and was published in 1962.

Function

• The North American Jungian Personality Self-Assessment contains 93 multiple-choice questions that address four pairs of preferences or dichotomies: extroversion-introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling and judgment-perception. The end result of the self-assessment allows the participant to view an achieved personality type -- one of the 16 different combinations of the original four preferences, such as ENTP.

Usage

• The use of the Jungian Personality Self-Assessment has expanded since World War II. Today the assessment gives individuals a sense of their suitability for different jobs, relationships, educational pursuits, learning styles and means of personal growth. According to Western Nevada College, the self-assessment does not define an individual but allows the understanding of different personality types and what they mean.