Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Myers, I. (1962). The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Information about the active forms of the MBTI is available online. The MBTI is also available for purchase online.

	Table of Contents
	Description
	History of Use
	References

Description:

Purpose		The MBTI was designed to assess a constellation of personality traits.
Questions		The various forms of the MBTI include anywhere from 93 to 144 items using forced-choice format.
Sub-scales		4 "dichotomies": Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I) Sensing (S) and Intuition (N) Thinking (T) and Feeling (F) Judging (J) and Perceiving (P)
Domain
Psychometrics
Sample items		Scale not publicly available.

References:

Scale:

Myers, I. (1962). The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Uses:

Li, S. & Liu, C. J. (2008). Individual Differences in a Switch from Risk-averse Preferences for Gains to Risk-seeking Preferences for Losses: Can Personality Variables Predict the Risk Preferences? Journal of Risk Research 11(5): 673-686.

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