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.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Applications to Accounting Education and Research

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Psychometric Instrument ◽  
Jungian Theory ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Personality Theories ◽  
Research Stream

Many of the challenges facing the accounting profession involve personality characteristics of accountants. Personality theories have generated a rich research stream outside accounting and are widely applied in other disciplines and professions. Yet little research using these theories has been done in accounting. To redress this imbalance, this paper examines Jungian personality-type psychology—one of the main personality theories—and the major psychometric instrument that has arisen from it—the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The MBTI has been extensively tested for reliability and validity, and used in a large number of basic and education research studies. Results from reliability and validity testing indicate that the MBTI reliably measures personality characteristics predicted by Jungian theory. A small amount of published research has been conducted in accounting using the MBTI. These 16 articles are reviewed, with suggestions for additional research.

scholarly journals Physician personality and patient confidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 30-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kopel
Keyword(s):  
Personality Types ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Potential Importance ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
Patient Confidence

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a reliable and valid screening test for describing the natural personality of an individual, especially in the medical field. The indicator gives an individual a four-letter abbreviation summarizing his/her personality characteristics. The categories include: extraverted (E) / introverted (I), sensing (S) / intuition (N), feeling (F) / thinking (T), and perception (P) / judgment (J). The personality types of physicians vary considerably across the medical field. Specific personality types indicated by the Myers-Briggs fit better with certain medical specialties than others. The alignment of physician-patient personalities and its effect on patient confidence and compliance have potential importance in the management of some disorders, such as, for example, substance abuse. This review will examine the alignment of physician-patient personalities and its effect on patient confidence and treatment outcomes. 

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.

Selection and Attrition Profiles of Physician-Extender Students

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 1009-1010
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Buhmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Normal Personality ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Physician Extender ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Personal Orientation

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Personal Orientation Inventory, and Rokeach's scale provided measures of various normal personality characteristics for 170 applicants interviewed between 1974 and 1977 for the physician-extender training program. Those 71 applicants selected were more self-actualizing and more intuitive than those 76 not selected. The 23 students who failed were significantly less intuitive than those graduating. They also were more judgmental, more dogmatic, and less perceptive.

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.

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