scholarly journals Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for Modeling Multiagent Systems

2022 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando Braz ◽  
Jaime Simão Sichman
Keyword(s):  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Behavioral Preferences ◽  
Performance Teams

The formation of high-performance teams has been a constant challenge for organizations, which despite considering human capital as one of the most important resources, it still lacks the means to allow them to have a better understanding of several factors that influence the formation of these teams. In this sense, studies also demonstrate that teamwork has a significant impact on the results presented by organizations, in which human behavior is highlighted as one of the main aspects to be considered in the building of work teams. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator seeks to classify the behavioral preferences of individuals around eight characteristics, which grouped as dichotomies, describe different psychological types. With it, researchers have sought to expand the ability to understand the human factor, using strategies with multiagent systems that, through experiments and simulations, using computer resources, enable the development of artificial agents that simulate human actions. In this work, we present an overview of the research approaches that use MBTI to model agents, aiming at providing a better knowledge of human behavior. Additionally, we make a preliminary discussion of how these results could be explored in order to advance the studies of psychological factors' influence in organizations' work teams formation.

A Critique of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and its Operationalization of Carl Jung's Psychological Types

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Barbuto
Keyword(s):  
Individual Behavior ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs

Personality, as represented by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and its interpretative literature as a means of understanding behavior, is critically analyzed. Specifically, the dichotomous nature of the indices is criticized as is its operationalization of Jung's psychological types. This paper argues that Jung's stated intentions for understanding individual behavior suggest that personality variables exist in various levels of consciousness and unconsciousness which require study to consider the proportions with which each exists. The paper also considers a reconstruction of the measure of Jung's psychological types and reconsideration of the descriptions and characteristics of each personality function measured.

Psychological Types of Male and Female Lay Church Leaders in England, Compared with United Kingdom Population Norms

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Francis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Population Norms ◽  
United Kingdom Population ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs

A sample of 322 evangelical lay church leaders completed Form G (Anglicized) of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Among the female church leaders extraversion and introversion were equally represented. There were preferences for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving. Among the male church leaders there were preferences for introversion over extraversion, intuition over sensing, for thinking over feeling, and for judging over perceiving. The type preferences of the current samples were statistically analysed in comparison with the United Kingdom population norms (Kendall, 1998). It was found that evangelical lay church leaders differ from the United Kingdom population in a number of significant ways; most notably, intuitive types are significantly over-represented among both male and female evangelical lay church leaders compared to the United Kingdom population norms.

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to Study Managers: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Gardner ◽  
Mark J. Martinko
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Myers Briggs

This paper provides a review of research into the relationships between psychological types, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and managerial attributes, behaviors and effectiveness. The literature review includes an examination of the psychometric properties of the MBTI and the contributions and limitations of research on psychological types. Next, key findings are discussed and used to advance propositions that relate psychological type to diverse topics such as risk tolerance, problem solving, information systems design, conflict management and leadership. We conclude with a research agenda that advocates: (I) the exploration of potential psychometric refinements of the MBTI, (2) more rigorous research designs, and (3) a broadening of the scope of managerial research into type.

Relationships between Conceptual Systems and Psychological Types

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Carskadon ◽  
Marshall L. Knudson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs

137 college students were given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and O. J. Harvey's This I Believe test for conceptual systems. For each of the four Myers-Briggs scales, the proportion of each type classified in each of the four main conceptual systems was analyzed. It was hypothesized that sensing and intuitive types would be nonrandomly distributed across conceptual systems, such that the lower conceptual systems would contain higher proportions of sensing types while the higher conceptual systems would contain higher proportions of intuitive types. This was confirmed. An additional unhypothesized trend emerged in which feeling types were overrepresented among System I individuals. The main results were interpreted as supporting the construct validity of the Sensing-Intuition scale of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Job Satisfaction as a Function of Personality-Job Congruence: A Study with Jungian Psychological Types

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afzalur Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Occupational Environment ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Favorable Influence

The study tested the hypothesis that congruence between personality and occupational environment has a favorable influence on job satisfaction. Personality and job satisfaction were measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Brayfield and Rothe's Index of Job Satisfaction, respectively ( N = 586). The occupations were classified as technical, intellectual, and social. The results did not provide support for the hypothesis. But personality characteristics, such as extravert-introvert and judging-perceiving, did influence job satisfaction irrespective of occupations.

Jungian Typology of Professional Psychodramatists: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Analysis of Certified Psychodramatists

1986 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Richard Buchanan ◽  
Jane A. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Indicator Analysis ◽  
Jungian Typology

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores of 170 certified psychodramatists were collected. As anticipated, self-selection was readily apparent in the group as 87% were intuitive rather than sensing types. Psychodramatists are most likely to be intuitive feelers, and extraverted intuitive feeling perceivers represent 29% of all certified professionals. In general there were no major differences in psychological types between psychodramatists and samples from their original academic training (psychology, social work, etc.). In comparing psychodramatists with other psychotherapeutic orientations, psychodramatists were most like experiential psychotherapists and most different from psychoanalytic therapists. As compared to Jacoby's scale of innovative versus conservative types, 87% of the psychodramatists are innovative. That spontaneity and creativity are regarded as essential to psychodrama is suggested by both the preponderance of innovative types among professionally certified psychodramatists and the systematic exclusion of most conservative types. Studies of other certified therapists would provide a base for further comparison of psychological types between psychotherapeutic orientations.

Increased Prevalence of Sensing Types in Men with Cluster Headaches

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Mueller ◽  
R. Michael Gallahger ◽  
Robert A. Steer ◽  
Carman A. Ciervo
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Headache ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychosomatic Symptoms ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
Migraine Headaches ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Cluster Headaches ◽  
Headache Patients

To ascertain whether the percentage of men who suffer with cluster headaches and are classified as sensing types according to Jung's theory of psychological types was comparable to the percentage (74%) of Sensing types that was found by Gallagher, et al. among women who experience migraine headaches, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® was administered to 25 male cluster-headache patients. There were 19 (76%) male Sensing types, and this was comparable to the percentage of Sensing types for migrainous women. The results are discussed as supporting previous contentions that Sensing types may be prone to developing psychosomatic symptoms related to stress.

Assessing the dream-lag effect among participants with different intuition score measured by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.

Dreaming ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-277
Author(s):  
Jiaxi Wang ◽  
Xiaoling Feng ◽  
Ting Bin ◽  
Huiying Ma ◽  
Heyong Shen
Keyword(s):  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Lag Effect ◽  
Myers Briggs

Validity of a Measure of Critical Thinking Skills

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1223-1230
Author(s):  
Bruce Thompson ◽  
Janet G. Melancon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Myers Briggs

Based on data from 343 subjects, results suggest that Thompson's Test of Critical Thinking Skills has reasonable item difficulty and discrimination coefficients and appears to be valid. Construct validity was investigated by administering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Group Embedded Figures Test. Although conclusions must be considered tentative pending additional study, the results warrant continued inquiry regarding the measure's value.

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