7LEAD001W: In-depth Analysis and Critique of MBTI Psychometric Test

This report provides a detailed critique of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) psychometric test. It begins with a description of psychometrics and the MBTI's role in understanding personality types, highlighting its use in identifying individual strengths and preferences. The report discusses the development and design of the MBTI, tracing its origins to Katharine Cook Briggs' interest in Jungian psychology. It explains the test's structure, including the questionnaire format and its focus on assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report also addresses the availability and access of the MBTI tool, noting its widespread use in organizations for improving culture and resolving workplace conflicts. It identifies the target group as working professionals, organizations, and government institutions, emphasizing the tool's potential to reveal areas for personal and professional growth. Furthermore, the report outlines the uses of the MBTI in understanding personality traits and its reliance on a questionnaire approach. The document also discusses the different personality traits like introversion vs extroversion, intuition vs sensing, feeling vs thinking and perceiving vs judging. The report concludes by touching upon the strengths and weaknesses of the MBTI, information, and support research. Desklib is a platform where students can find similar assignments and study resources to enhance their understanding.

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Table of Contents
Description............................................................................................................................................3
Development and design....................................................................................................................4
Availability and access......................................................................................................................6
Target group......................................................................................................................................7
Uses...................................................................................................................................................7
Strength and weaknesses...................................................................................................................7
Information........................................................................................................................................8
Support research................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................9

Description
Psychometric is a field of study comprises with different theories and techniques that
involve measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitude and personality trait. All these are a
part of the psychometric study. The role of the study is to understand the different concepts
and techniques that can support the people to understand and grab the different areas of
knowledge and understanding. Personality typing is also a part of this entire practice that
favours and empowers the individual to understand and acquire the best level of knowledge
and understanding. The MBTI that precisely demonstrated as The Myers Briggs Personality
Type indicator that focuses over self reporting of inventory which specifically designed to
identify the type of personality an individual contain, strength and possible preferences of the
person holding the personality (Atanbekov and Shirzad, 2020). MBTI is most trust worthy
technique that understand the personal ability of the person and motivate the people to grab
the best form of personality development at an individual level. The key goal of the use of the
MBTI is to guide the individual to understand and identify the individual own personality
traits and features associated with the personality. This entire practice motivate and guide the
individual to understand and know different areas related to the personality such as strength,
weakness, opportunity and threat part of the personality of the individual. This test is
significant and crucial for the individual as it precisely guide the person to get a clearer
overview about the personality and the ability individual contain to perform any set of
operation and functional area. Questionnaire is developed under this technique so that
individual can cover all areas about the personality that included the features, strength,
weakness, opportunities and threats part of the overall personality of the individual.
Questionnaire is a key and strategic approach to measure the whole personality of the person
acquiring the respective professional area. The entire model is based on t6he fact that a
person should understand different elements about the individual own personality that make it
more significant for the person to precisely understand the role of the MBTI to guide the
person for approaching the best level of knowledge at an individual level.
The questionnaire is designed in such manner that individual get the complete
overview about the personality that is hold by the person. Strength, weakness, opportunity
and threat are the different areas associated with the personality of the person. The aptitude
test is a very essential and significant part of the whole personality of the person. This is
important for the individual to understand the different aspects and traits about the
personality that can direct the person in the best way possible (Bartko, 2018). The personality

test is a significant part of the MBTI model or technique that highlights all the key areas
regarding the individual personality of the person holding it. In life if the person knows about
all different elements of the personality this would benefit the person to approach any filed of
career and professional development in a more strategic way possible. This is a essential
element that support the person to identify all the key personality trait and develop the
individual own personality in the best way possible.
Development and design
From the initial stage of the life of Kathariune Cook Biggs she looks forward to study
a theory of Jung’s theory of psychological types. The time when she studied the whole theory
it found more complex to understand and grab any strategic benefit with the theory. Once the
study was done she aimed to design a theory that can bring more positive an dynamic results
in favour to the respective individual who approach the whole theory (Betta and Iwko, 2019).
She was initially very much keen to understand about the different personality types and the
features about the different personality individual hold. It is important for the respective
individual to understand all the feature about the personality such as strengths, weakness,
opportunities and threats of the personality of the person. This theory is designed in such
manner that detailed overview about each element of personality could been assessed by the
person understanding the whole theory.
The entire test of personality development is developed in such way that individual
approaching the respective test get a clear overview about the different elements of the
individual own personality. This test is designed in such manner that a person approaching
the respect test annual will get to know about the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat
part of the overall personality of the person holding all these different areas (Coron, 2020).
This is necessary for the person to precisely acquire all different areas and elements that
associate with the overall personality of the person holding all these factors. The test is
designed in the questionnaire format where the questions about the personality are asked. The
role of the MBTI is very certain in this context as it strategically guide and direct the
individual to understand all areas and aspects about the personality.
Aptitude test is commercially produced in such manner that this can be approached by
the individual or the normal people or the professionals as well. Both the type of people the
person who are approaching the studios and also the professional looking for maximising the
career growth opportunities can understand this concept easily and approach the test in the

best way possible. The role of the MBTI strategically directs the individual to identify all the
key elements regarding the personality of the person taking the respect test. The personality
assessment is mandatory for the people as it completely guide and direct or highlight all key
facts and features about the individual own personality of the person (Eng, 2020). This make
it more significant for the individual to identify all the top features and factors about the
personality that can depict the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat associated with the
individual. The entire test manual is designed in such manner that is highlighting all the
elements strength, weakness, opportunity and threat of the person holding the entire test. This
is necessary for the individual to precisely direct and guide the whole test manual in the best
way possible. The efficiency of the test manual is such that this can acquire by any type of
individual or professional to measure the different personality traits. The test is sufficient
enough to direct all set of areas that can guide and direct the person to approach the
personality development in the best way possible.
Introversion vs extraversion
Personality is of different types one is introversion and the other one is extraversion.
The introversion is the person that try to limit the individuals own personality. This is a
person that tries to keep the thoughts with it and do not like to share the conversation with
any one so easily. On the other hand the extraversion is the person that likes to talk with new
people and share the views and discuss over different areas and topics with the people
(Ganoo, 2018). The extroversion is the person that can easily adjust at any place but on the
other hand the introversion is the one that will take plenty of time to get adjust in between the
people. This is essential to understand the difference between the extroversion and the
introversion. Both the personality types is different. The test is well sufficiently designed to
understand the personality type of the person approaching the whole test.
Intuition vs sensing
Sensing is the one that is all about to collect the information. This is a process that is
about to accumulate the whole set of information. Intuition is all about finding the context of
the information collected. The both elements are different from each other (Jelley, 2021).
Sensing is more like grabbing the whole information and intuition is more like identifying the
right source that can provide the best form of information.
Feeling vs thinking

Feeling is more like an instant way of taking the decisions. On the other hand the
thinking is a strategic process of taking out the best level of decision making by understand
the different areas of the information. Thinking involves more strategic choices, analysis,
evaluation of the entire concept before making any decision.
Perceiving vs judging
Judgers defined and believe in the well designed structure that can interpret the entire
situation. The judges are more restricted and limited in nature on the other side the perceivers
are more like analysis the whole situation and keep themselves open to understand the whole
situation.
The MBTI is very sufficiently designed to highlight different elements about the
individual own personality of the person approaching the whole test. The basic aim of this
whole concept is to make the reader and acquire understand different sides of the individual
own personality.
Availability and access
There is not any possible restrictions are opposed over utilising the MBTI tool. The
tool become very famous as it support and guide the professionals and organisation to
improve the culture, leadership and all other areas of the different elements. The tool also
support in solving the issues and resolving conflict at the work place that make it more useful
for all the users. All conflict related to career, work place is getting too resolved over this
tool. The legal restrictions arte not imposed over utilising the tool but this is strictly permitted
to use this whole tool in the surveillance of the human resource professional or any other
person having specified knowledge about the tool (Remann and Nordin, 2021). The qualified
coaches, human resources professional and other such people contain knowledge e about the
tool can bring and guide the individual taking up the test to use it properly. This is essential to
understand the basic elements of the tool and understand it than only to approach the whole
practice. This would bring and derive the best level of professional results against utilising
the tool. This is essential to use any tool at a professional level so than an individual can
derive the best level of results and understanding about the topic. This tool is useful for both
organization acquiring the tool and participant who are interesting in using the respective
practice. Developers of the tool tried to support and guide every single individual using the
tool in the best way possible so that everyone can entertain the advantage of this whole
technique.

Target group
The MBTI tool is designed in such manner that the user of the tool can be working
professionals, organization, government owned institutions or any other individual. The use
of the tool makes the scale of the entire tool extensive. This makes it more dynamic and
famous as it can use by working professionals, government owned organisations, companies
and all other individual or peoples. The role of the tool is to highlight the detailed areas about
the individual personality of the user of the tool. With support of this tool user can depict and
know about the potential and possible areas where the individual can grow and develop the
individual own personality (Rivera-Mata and Martorell-Riera, 2019). This is important for
the user of this tool to adopt and acquire it in the best way possible. The extensive nature of
this tool make it more popular that entities and organisation at a global level of operations are
tend to use this tool in order to grab and approach all different objectives and targets behind
the operations and functions of the respective areas.
Uses
The MBTI is very effective to understand the different personality traits of the person
approaching the whole practice. The entire concept of the MBTI tool is tend or based on the
questionnaire approach that can highlight and guide the person about the different elements
and areas about the individual personality. This tool requires professional approach to
practice the whole concept than only it is possible for the user to derive and bring out the
most authentic results. The primary use of the tool is more based on leadership, business
management, team building and team development, solving issues and conflicts and all such
areas that can provide the extensive level of information and direction (Thomas, Goel and
Agrawal, 2020). The tool carry both short term approaches and the long term approaches that
make the user more professionally to approach the whole practice. The use of this tool make
a user identify not only the different personality traits but also the user get to know about the
skills that are positive in nature of the user and the skill that could negatively affect the user
of the tool.
Strength and weaknesses
Strengths
 MBTI is a tool that depict about the different facts and features over the personality of
the user.

 The tool make a user understand about the strengths and also highlight all the key
weakness part of the personality.
 The use of this tool is simple and easy to approach the whole practice.
 This tool highlights all the essential feature that can project the best level of
personality assessment of the user.
 This tool requires professional assistance that makes it more reliable as compare to
other such techniques.
Weakness
 This is very challenging for the user to identify the right professional to use the
respective tool.
 The information derived under this tool is not secured as anyone can get access over
such information.
 Time consuming practice makes it less useful.
Information
MBTI tool effectively convey all the key areas and features associated with the
personality of the one taking up the whole test. The information depicted under this test is
certainly related to personality, skill set and the mindset of the person approaching the test.
The role of the test is to precisely identify the different areas associated with the personality
of the person taking up the test. Information collected under this test is measured over
different areas and aspects inbuilt with the tool that access and analysis all the different sides
of the concept and then bring out an present the results of the test (Wei and et.al., 2017). The
entire process makes it more professional for the user of the test. This is important for the
reliability of the information as it measured over different parameters and this tool provides
access of all the possible parameter to access to the right information.
Support research
The research is a significant part of the entire practice. This tool is very healthy and
helpful for the users and the developers conducted all the possible research befo4e
developing the whole tool. This make it more significant for the developers to understand the
individual concept and bring the best level of results. All the areas are researched while
developing the entire tool about the personality and the mindset and skill set of the human
minds. This tool has been developed professionally.

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