MBTI

Four-letter personality code

MBTI is an abbreviation for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality assessment that categorizes people into sixteen types based on four binary traits: introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving.

The result is a four-letter code like INFJ or ESTP.

Popular in workplaces and online communities, though psychologists question its scientific validity: What's your MBTI?

types

INTJ

Analytical introvert personality classification

  • ENFPPersonality type, warmly enthusiastic
  • INFPIntroverted intuitive feeling perceiver
  • ENTJLeadership-oriented personality classification

ISFJ · ESTP · INFJ · ENTP · introvert · extravert · thinking · feeling · judging · perceiving

workplace

team building

Fostering workplace collaboration

communication styles · corporate training · management · professional development · conflict resolution

community

typology

Classification by shared traits

critique

pseudoscience

Bogus methodology posing as factual

Big Five · pigeonholing · dichotomies · oversimplification

assessment

personality test

Measures individual character traits

results · profile · scoring · online test · certification · practitioner

Categories
Opposites
scientific validity

MBTIBig Five

Premier grouping of five

clinical psychology · psychometrics · MMPI · IQ testing

Family

Briggs

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Abstract · Rated G