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The EIS Research Initiative (EISRI)
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
JOMC 97.55: Electronic Information Sources (EIS)
Final Research Project by CAROLINE RUTLEDGE
Fall Semester, 1995

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Sources

Introduction:

My research topic focused on using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help you choose a career. I found this study interesting because of its focus on various levels of the temperaments. The MBTI breaks everyone down into sixteen personality temperaments and describes how each person interacts with the world and directs their energy, the kind of information they naturally notice, how people make decisions, and whether people prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way. Using this information, people are able to discover what careers suit them. I was able to do research of this specific topic fairly easily because of the numerous studies done on the peronality assessment. The World Wide Web has been an invaluable resource by providing the personality test and an automatic evaluation. The WWW also connects people with various personality types with one another. 

  • The Keirsey Temperament Sorter
    URL: "http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/personality/keirsey.html"
    This site provides the actual test that determines the sixteen personality types. After taking the test, the information is evaluated and tells you the percentage of each category along with a description of the personality type.
  • alt.psychology.personality home page
    URL: "http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mdavarle/personality.html"
    This site provides information regarding the MBTI such as links to FAQ, a list of the sixteen profiles and a newsgroup. The home page also provides links to a variety of other sources and topics of interests regarding MBTI.
  • Duniho and Duniho Life Pattern Indicator (DDLI) page
    URL:"http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/psychology/alt.psychology.personaltiy/html/ddli.html"
    This page also goes into great detail of the MBTI, yet it looks at it from a supplemental point of view. This is a competing personality assessment that discusses many aspects of the MBTI in more detail while listing the pro's and con's of each.

      Print Sources:

  • Tieger, Paul D. and Barbara Barron-Tieger.Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 2nd edition, 1995.
    This is my favorite of all of the listed sources. The book provides descriptions of the various personality types, how to type watch and clearly explains the dominant and auxilary functions. It also gives a detail guide of the perfect career for each type.
  • Briggs-Myers, Isabel (wih Peter Myers).Gifts Differing. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychology Press, 1980.
    This book is a valuable resource, which describes the MBTI and the personlity types according to one of the original reasearchers, Isabel Briggs-Myers.
  • Kroeger, Otto, and Thuesen, Janet M. Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Types Determine Your Success on the Job. New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1992.
    This book is the second Type Talk by these authors. It applies the MBTI, which was discussed regarding each aspect of life in their first book, to the work setting. It describes which types belong in which settings as well as who should work together.
  • The Type Reporter published eight times a year.
    This publication contains articles and information on various topics of interest concerning psychological type. Susan Scanlon, Editor, 524 North Paxton Street, Alexandria, VA 22304.
  • Duniho, Terrence. Patterns of Preference. Providence, RI: Career Designs, 1993.
    If you enjoyed the DDLI page, you should check out this source. The book provides information regarding career sources for personality types as written by Terrence Duniho.

      What is Information?

  • Information is defined as 1.) knowledge derived from study or experience. 2.) knowledge of an event or situation; intelligence. 3.) a collection of facts or data. 4.) informing or being informed: communication or knowledge. 5.) Comp Sci. A nonaccidental signal used as input to a computer or communications system.
    (Source: The American Heritage Dictionary. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 3rd edition, 1994, p.430)

      Some Good Quotations

  • Obviously, a man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it.

                 Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
                   from his address to the New York State Publishers Association on August 30, 1948.
    (Source: Bartlett, John. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 15th edition, 1980, p. 820:11.)

      Comment

  • I found the Web to be a valuable source of information reagrding this topic. If I were to do more research regarding this topic, I would be sure to continually look at updates regarding the MBTI and those involved in the various newsgroups. Yet, print resources still provide in-depth information that may become too tedious to study over a computer terminal.

    Wednesday, December 13, 1995
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    Caroline Rutledge, BA, Journalism and Mass Communication -- Advertising sequence, May 1996
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