INTERPERSONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
UNDERSTANDING
PERSONALITY TYPES
WHO
AM I?
BENEFITS OF SELF KNOWLEDGE
- Personal growth -Reach
your potential by knowing potential -learn things about yourself you didn't
know
- Interpersonal effectiveness
understand how other personalities work
- Learn universals of human
behaviour share of fear, anxiety, insecurity
- Appreciate the uniqueness
of individuals
- Learn to love self-->
love others
- Learn to get along with
difficult people
MYERS- BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
(MBTI)
- Katherine Briggs and
Isabel Briggs Myers took insights of Jung and developed an instrument to identify
personality types
- MBTI used for human resource
development, team building, problem solving, counselling,therapy and education
- assesses how you perceive,
make decisions, orient to world
PERSONALITY TYPES: PATTERNS
OF DIVERSITY
- Jung says human diversity
not completely random-there are patterns
- Perceptual mental
processes: how we perceive the world
- Judgement function:
how we decide about what we see
- Psychological Attitude:
energizing sources
- External orientation:
stance adopted toward people
Four Psychological Preference
Scales:
Extroversion
or Introversion
Sensing
or Intuition
Thinking
or Feeling
Judging
or Perceiving
16 Personality types
ISTJ ISTP ESTP ESTJ ISTJ
ISFP ESFP ESFJ INFJ INFP ENFP ENFJ INTJ INTP ENTP ENTJ
ENERGY
SOURCE: EXTROVERSION OR INTROVERSION
Introvert to extrovert:
"Pardon me for speaking while you were interrupting"
Extrovert to Introvert:
"Do you have any other speeds beside slow and stop"
- division extrovert/introvert
neither good nor bad but an approach to life
- are you excited going
into room full of people?
- extroverts--> mingle
-introvert--> stick with one or two
Introvert
- focus on their perceptions
inwardly
- deal with inner world
of ideas -would rather listen than talk
- needs private time to
recharge
- could feel underestimated
- extroverts outnumber
introverts 3 to 1
- introvert can learn extrovert
game to succeed
- can do well in human/public
relations
Extrovert
- energized by people and
action
- orient outward
- sociable, expressive,
external
- extrovert wants breadth
vs depth
- may act before thinking-think
out loud
- we all display some of
each
Introversion--Extroversion Scale
INTROVERSION ...............................................................................................EXTROVERSION
______________________________________________________________________
HIGH........... MODERATE.........
LOW............ I........... LOW.......... MODERATE......... HIGH
INFORMATION
GATHERING: SENSING OR INTUITION
- how we take in information
by sensing or intuitively?
SENSORS: THE REALISTS
- no nonsense
- pay attention to information
from sensory channels
- seeing is believing-focus
on here and now
- enjoy what is now rather
than past or present
- focus on details, facts
of situations, people and events
- greatest trust is experience
-likes set procedures and routines
- deviation is not welcomed
-like to look at things in parts or pieces
- sequential approach
- like hands on, concrete
INTUITIVES: THE INNOVATORS
- like to use 6th sense,
hunch
- like variety-future orientation
- possibility thinkers-love
to be inventive
- bored by routine-can
jump in anytime
- look for patterns relationships,
designs rather than pieces or parts of whole
- whole is first object
of attention
Sensing-Intuiting scale
SENSING .................................................................................................INTUITIVE
_________________________________________________________
HIGH........ MODERATE......
LOW.... I........ LOW........ MODERATE.......... HIGH
DECISION
MAKING: THINKING OR FEELING
Do you decide with head
or heart?
THINKERS: LIFE'S LOGICIAN
- take logical approach
- careful consideration
to justify action
- look at the consequences
in unbiased way
- search for truth -intellectual
orientation to life
- truthful rather than
tactful
- value fairness over compassion
FEELERS: LIFE'S LOVERS
- base decision on emotions
and personal values
- logic may be used to
support feeling decision
- the people people
- prefer tact over truth
- more compassionate than
firm
- humane and personally
involved
Thinking-Feeling Scale
THINKING...........................................................................................
FEELING
_________________________________________________________
HIGH ........MODERATE......
LOW.... I..... LOW...... MODERATE............ HIGH
ORIENTATION
TO THE OUTER WORLD: JUDGING OR PERCEIVING
- your psychological stance
to world, external reality
JUDGERS: LIFEÕS ORGANIZERS
- making lists
- a place for everything
and everything in its place
- tend to create structured
environment
- everything organized
and planned
- well organized, structured
and decisive
- need closure on matters-
- enjoy decision making
- these things give them
control
PERCEIVERS: MELLOW TYPES
- live a different lifestyle
- live for spontaneity
- last minute change as
opportunity
- change is a friend
- open to possible
- uncomfortable being forced
into quick conclusion -desire to learn more
- tolerant and adaptable
- live and let live
- go with flow
Judging-Perceiving Scale
JUDGING.......................................................................................
PERCEIVING
_________________________________________________________
HIGH...... MODERATE .......LOW........
I.... LOW...... MODERATE.......... HIGH
TYPE
CLASSIFICATION
SENSING-THINKING TYPES
( ISTJ,ISTP,ESTP,ESTJ)
- focus on facts and details
- speak and write directly
to the point
- adapt easily to established
procedures and guidelines
- concerned with efficiency
and utility
- goal or task oriented
- emphasize accuracy
- approach tasks sequentially
- focus on present
SENSING FEELING PEOPLE
(ISFJ, ISFP,ESFP,ESFJ)
- open to impulse and spontaneous
acts
- do what feels good
- sensitive to other's
feelings
- decisions made according
to personal likes/dislikes
- prefer to learn through
human interaction and personal experience
- enjoy activities involving
emotional expression
- persuasive through personal
interaction
- keen observers of human
nature
- interested in people
INTUITIVE-FEELING PEOPLE
(INFJ, INFP, ENFP,ENFJ)
- open to the nonconventional
- see facts and details
as part of larger picture
- express themselves in
new and unusual ways
- adapt to new circumstances
- process oriented
- highly interested in
beauty symmetry and form
- enjoy exploratory activities
- focus on future
INTUITIVE-THINKING PEOPLE
(INTJ, INTP,ENTP,ENTJ)
- need time to plan and
consider consequence
- like to organize and
synthesize information
- focus on impersonal considerations
- decisions based on evidence
and logic
- prefer to learn vicariously
through books or symbolic forms
- enjoy logical thinking
activities
- persuasive intellectually
- store huge amounts of
knowledge and information
- interested in ideas,
theories and concept
Source:
Mastering Human Relations 3rd Edition, A Falikowski, 2002. Pearson
Education