Becoming Aware of Our Personality Inventory
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Our personality is the result of a combination of different factors, including attitudes, interests, social roles, physiology, emotional development, etc.
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According to Encarta, personality inventory is
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Carl Jung determined that our personality types are based on four dichotomies:
1.- Thinking and Feeling: Opposite ways of making decisions about information and experiences: either by analyzing their order in the placement of things or by evaluating their acceptability.
2.- Sensing and Intuition:Opposite ways of taking in information and making observations: either through the realism of the senses or through patterns and layers of possibilities informed by the senses.
3.- Extraversion and Introversion:Opposite ways of attending to our outer and inner experiences: either to our outer world or to our inner dynamic of understanding, reflection, and analysis.
4.- Judging and Perceiving:Opposite ways of managing interactions with others: either through our preferred judging process (Thinking or Feeling) or through our preferred perceiving process (Sensing or Intuition).
The Myers-Briggs table combines all of these dichotomies in 16 patterns:
To identify your personality type complete a FREE test on the following link:
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx?partid=0
I took this test and my personality type is Introvert Judger in the Sensing Type block with Thinking: ISTJ
Please read a summary of my test results below:
http://gqs-inc.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/fernando-perez-test-results.pdf
Understanding our personality type helps us to find jobs where we feel more capable and safe. At the same time, when we realize that we all have different personality types, we will better understand the behavior of co-workers, students, family members,etc.