Myers Briggs Questionnaire


Myers Briggs Questionnaire is intended to assess psychosomatic preferences, this questionnaire can be called as psychometric questionnaire. The questions would be on how citizens observe the world and make judgment. Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers were two who started this myers briggs personality test with an intention to carry a survey on women who were joining the industrial employees. The first myer briggs typology first took place 1921, later a book was published in 1923.

Now this questionnaire is called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the main concept goes with 2 functions the first theory has thinking and feeling and the second is sensing and intuition. So this gave raise to myers briggs types, there almost 16 combination types

extraversion (E), sensing (S), thinking (T), judgment (J)
introversion (I), intuition (N), feeling (F), perception (P)
these are combained as

ESTJs, ISTJs, ISFJs, ESFPs, ISFPs, ESTPs, ISTPs, ENTJs, INTJs, ENFJs, INFJs, ENTPs, INTPs, ENFPs and INFPs.

Myers Briggs Types


E stands for Extraversion, people with this nature express their energy or vigor with outer world. There people deal with things and situations.
Introversion: beliefs, ideas, explanations and information.
Sensing: common sense and good judgment on whatever they see.
Intuition: deal with Sixth sense
Thinking: Accepted wisdom and objective logic
Feeling: values and Reaction
Judging: stable and prearranged
Perception: flexibility and Observation

Sample Myers Briggs Questions


You are almost never late for your engagements
You are interested in a general idea than in the details of its understanding
Is it tricky to make you provoked?
Are you very responsive by your nature?
Do you ever think about destiny and humankind?
Do you stay with your decision or take help of others before making a decision?
Do you look for exact reason or feeling?
Do you make work the plan or plan the work?
Do you place every?
Do you like doing social service?