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Understanding Personality Type

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Understanding Personality Type

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From back cover: Gifts Differing has helped to define our understanding of personality. Written by the creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator inventory -- the most widely used personality profile in history and survey you likely took in college or at your job -- Gifts Differing explains the essential personality types described by the MBTI and their practical significance in your daily life.
Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success, in school, at a job, in a career, or in your personal relationships.

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Publisher
Davies-Black Pub.
Language
English
Pages
228

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Subjects
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Typology (Psychology), MBTI, personality, personalities, personality type, personality test, personality and career, Personality, Characters and characteristics, Personality Inventory, Somatotypes

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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
2010, Brealey Publishing, Nicholas
in English
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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
May 25 1995, c1980, Davies-Black Pub.
paperback ; charts in English
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Gifts differing
1990, Consulting Psychologists Press
in English - 10th anniversary ed.
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Gifts differing
1980, Consulting Psychologists Press
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Gifts differing
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First Sentence

"It is fashionable to say that the individual is unique."

Table of Contents

Preface Page xi
Publisher's note Page xvii
I. Theory
1. An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences Page 1 2. Extensions of Jung's Theory Page 17
II. Effects of Preferences on Personality
3. Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery Page 27 4. Effect of the EI Preference Page 53 5. Effect of the SN Preference Page 57 6. Effect of the TF Preference Page 65 7. Effect of the JP Preference Page 69 8. Extraverted and Intoverted Forms of the Process Compared Page 77 9. Descriptions of the Sixteen Types Page 83
III. Practical Implications of Type
10. Use of the Opposites Page 115 11. Type and marriage Page 123 12. Type and Early Learning Page 131 13. Learning Styles Page 139 14. Type and Occupation Page 149
IV. Dynamics of Type Development
15. Type and the Task of Growing Up Page 167 16. Good Type Development Page 173 17. Obstacles to Type Development Page 181 18. Motivation for Type Development in Children Page 185 19. Going on from Wherever You Are Page 191 Endnotes Page 203 References Page 205 About Isabel Briggs Myers Page 207 Full-Size Type Table Page 212 Index Page 215

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Palo Alto, CA : Consulting Psychologists Press, c1980.

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Palo Alto, Calif.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.2/64
Library of Congress
BF698.3 .M94 1995

The Physical Object

Format
paperback ; charts
Pagination
xvii, 228 p.
Number of pages
228
Dimensions
23 x 15 x 2 cm
Weight
14.2 oz

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1272847M
Internet Archive
giftsdifferingun00myer
ISBN 10
089106074X
ISBN 13
9780891060741
LCCN
95004184
OCLC/WorldCat
32051485
Goodreads
49187

Work Description

From the back cover: Distilled in these pages are the insights gleaned during a lifetime of sensitive and loving observation of people and how their behavior reflects their psychological type as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Myers believes passionately that each of the 16 types has its own strengths and that understanding and using these can lead to fulfillment.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI is one of the most popular methods for describing personality. The model divides people into personality preferences on four measures: introversion-extraversion, intuitive-sensing, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving. A combination of these measures gives a possible 16 different personality type preferences. One of the great things about this book is the polls they did matching occupations to personality types. Unsurprisingly there is a connection between what type people are and what jobs they tend to want to do. It's not a one-to-one correlation (thank goodness) but it is an interesting pattern to look at.

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