Effectively, it is a self-report questionnaire designed to make Jung’s theory of psychological types more accessible, understandable and useful in everyday life (Briggs et al., 1998). The MBTI helps identify and explain differences between normal healthy people, which can be the source of much misunderstanding, by identifying their dominant type or preference. The mother and daughter team, Myers and Briggs, published the first MBTI edition in (1962) and over the next four decades it has been heavily investigated and researched (CAP, 2012).To date thousands of people have completed the MBTI and research has continued to the present day. Also, MBTI has been translated into thirty languages and it is arguably the most widely used instrument for understanding normal personality differences (McCrae & Costa, 1989; Francis & Jones, 2000).
Myers and Briggs’ solution for the problem of putting Jung’s dynamic theory fully into operation in a psychometric instrument was to design four separate preference scales.…