Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test: Critical Analysis Of Personality Test

Author's personality analysis through MBTI test

Question:

Discuss about the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test.

The following article has concentrated on a personality test called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test (MBTI) that enlightens different aspects of human being (Sethuraman and Suresh 2014). I have conducted the test to analyse my own personality. Therefore, the report has articulated critical analysis of the MBTI Test.:

The result of MBTI test has highlighted my several features that can provide vivid idea about my personality and qualities. As per the result of the test, I am an introvert, who does not prefer to socialize much or communicate with people. I have secured only 3% only in this sector of the test, which is poor. It shows that I am not comfortable to perform or participate in new or unknown surroundings. It makes me uncomfortable when I have to share my view or opinion in front of the unknown people. According to the study, I prefer to keep my point of view within myself. I do not agree with the result of the test, as I believe that I can be an extrovert when required. I feel I can share or raise my voice over an issue when I have vivid idea about the fact. Otherwise, I do not make any comments on the basis of my assumption. Although, it is true that I prefer to be surrounded by my dear and near ones, but it is also contradictory as I can interact or maintain healthy relation with unknown people as well if it is required or beneficial. I am a combination of extrovert and introvert, as I usually take time to interact with unknown person and I have some kind of hesitation in me to start any interaction with a person who is unknown for me. However, I can easily maintain an interactive relation with an unknown person, if it is required for my professional commitments or development.

I have secured 16% in sensing over intuition. Thus, according to the test I can sense any upcoming occurrences by using my senses and previous experience. It means I only rely on my senses and experience over assumption or intuition. I do agree with the result as, I rely on my previous experience and evidence to reach to any conclusion instead of assumption. I think it is important for any plan to work. Assumption may lead a person or a team to meet any awful consequences. I believe a person must learn from his or her previous experience, it helps them to avoid many future risks. In my scenario, I also try to stick to this value while making any crucial decision. Although, I have not secured much score in the section, but te result is related to my personality.

MBTI Test Result analysis

The result shows that I prefer feeling over thinking, which signifies that I am an emotional person. According to the reports, I mostly rely on my feelings while making any decision. It shows that I am an emotional person and has a great value for my emotions or feelings. I do agree with the result. I rely on my feelings and emotions while dealing with any situation. It does not mean I do not think over any issue, but while taking any general decision I mostly depend on my feelings. At the same time, while making any critical decision I often use both my feelings and thinking capability to reach to the conclusion. Although, it leads me to face various difficulties often, but I think it is important to value own emotion or feeling. It helps us sometime to avoid many mistakes that can put negative impact on our life. However, I do not take impulsive decisions often and try to avoid this factor.

Another section of the MBTI test shows that I prefer understand or observe any situation instead of judging it unknowingly. I have secured 16% score in this section. The result of the test shows that I have the capabilities to observe any situation before making any decision. It signifies that I prefer analysing any situation or circumstances instead of making any sudden statement, which is not suitable for any matured person to lead ay organization or any team. One, who wants to be an effective leader, must be aware of the fact that it is one of the key success factors of every efficient leader. He must analyse various aspects of the situation to understand it before making any critical decision. I completely agree with the fact that I try to observe situation instead of assumption and making random and in efficient decision. I believe it helps a person to avoid many future risks.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of the personality test that helps people to analyse their own personality (Radwan 2014). This test shows how the world around us can affect our decision making process. The test at first has been conducted by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. The test highlights different features of a person that plays important role in his decision-making process and personality (Hamada et al. 2016). This test is often used in the professional workshops. There is a conflict between some researchers about the effectiveness of MBTI test. According to a group of researchers, this test is highly beneficial for observing or analysing the personality of a human being. On the other hand, there are some critiques that claim that the result of MBTI test is worthless and fails to interpret one’s personality (Seol and Park 2015). According to the critiques of MBTI test, the result or score of the test is not capable of analysing a person’s personality in an appropriate manner (Stoltz, Young and Bryant 2014). The test divides people in sixteen different groups, which is considered as irrelevant by many psychologists. They claim that there is no scientific reason behind this personality test. It is merely based on the assumption (Tananchai 2017). There is another criticism about this model that is the inventors of the model are not professionally trained psychologists. They have not taken any kind of professional training in Psychometrics or psychological assessment (M. Ayoubi and Ustwani 2014). Thus, how they can create such model to judge anyone’s personality and his or her decision making process. It raises a question against this personality test, as this is highly crucial to conduct this type of personality test that reflects the personality of an individual person. There are many aspects that can only understand after gathering knowledge in this respective field. It leads psychologists re-think upon this issue. This model is not capable of highlighting all the features of human being which plays crucial role in the decision making process of the organization. According to the critiques, the model has not concentrated on life events to analyse personality of a person, such as- job satisfaction, performance measurement and so on (Wang 2015). It has focused on some lame features, which may not play an active part in the decision-making process of a person or his commitment level towards his team or organization. Thus, it can be stated that this model will not be beneficial to make any decision on the personality or skills of a person. One may face several difficulties by using this model. It will not be helpful for any organization to reach to the conclusion about the personality of their employee.

Conclusion:

As per the previous discussion, it can be concluded that the Although, MBTI test enlighten some key features of  a person that ma play vital role in the success of  person, there are many features or aspects are not highlighted by this model. At the same time, this model does not have any scientific relevance, which works as a major weakness for the model. Thus, one who may want to use this model to analyse the personality of a person must consider this factors while conducting their test.

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