Type Approach of Personality

Question 1

Fluffy & face-value approach to personality

Answer 1

Putting personalities in categories (an easy way of organising / saves energy and time/ convenient). Yet, we can overgeneralise when we end up putting things in a box.

Question 2

Determine a TYPE of personality

Answer 2

• Hippocrates: body fluids
• Freud: Id, ego & superego
• Sheldon: body type
• Myer-Briggs: 2 categories across 4 dimension (MBTI)

Question 3

There are issues with the MBTI Test for Personality

Answer 3

• there is a spectrum and the MBTI test does not really take into account those who do not fit 100% into the categories of personality (e.g., fall in the middle, not 100% in judging, or perceiving)

Question 4

MBTI leads to a whole lot of bias, it is not at all reliable, very questionable validity, and there is no good reason to use this in assessing for person-job fit!

Answer 4

Moreover, why 16 types? There are certainly more than 16 types of people in this world.