Written by Bedirhan Atabay
Analyzing our status mostly requires extensive knowledge regarding our personalities, the main factor influencing the person. How social you are, how judging you are, or how affected you are. All of those factors are, in one way or another, under the mass influence of your personality, the way you would describe yourself to others, and the way you inscribe yourself to be when it comes to self-analysis. Personality groups, as a result, are deeply required to accomplish such complex requirements with ease, especially since there is a need to interpret some strong personality points to be completely parallel with the mainstream personality itself.
Although we previously mentioned the need for a solid and singular metric for an effective and expansive review, there exist several metrics, each with its own way of determining the term “personality”. For example, the “Four Temperament Personality Types” (2). However, the system we primarily will uncover in this article will be the “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator”. In this personality grouping system, the society is grouped into 16 separate personality groups, each with its own relatively low proximities to one trait or the other trait (3).
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16 personality groups of Myers-Briggs come from the intensification of each trait, with the first trait spectrum being “Introvercy-Extrovercy” (3). If you feel closer to isolating yourself from society in most cases, find solitary moments to be enjoyable periods to be in, and find them necessary, it is most likely that you will have a higher proximity towards an introverted trait (3). On the other hand, if you find constant interaction with others necessary for a sustainable atmosphere of self-charging, you will have stronger extroverted traits (3). Having one of those traits will put you into a division of two separate personality groups, if you are extroverted, you will be grouped with the other personalities starting with the letter “E”. On the other hand, if you have an introverted nature, you are more likely to be grouped with the personalities starting with the letter “I” (3).
Secondly, your personalities are grouped depending on a different and distinct trait spectrum called Seeing-Intuition (3). If you are focusing more on the realities of this world, observing them, and making your decisions regarding this; you are likelier to be grouped as a person with a “Seeing” trait (3). On the other hand, if you have an “Intuition” trait, it is very likely for you to be put into the same category as people focusing more on the patterns of life and giving major value to future possibilities (3). The “Seeing” trait is represented with an “S” letter, and the “Intuition” trait is represented with an “N” letter (3).
Thirdly, we have the “Thinking-Feeling” trait spectrum (3). This spectrum focuses more on determining your rationality and dominance of feelings in the process of making decisions (3). People with the “Thinking” trait tend to be more rational, while people with the “Feeling” trait tend to be more dependent on their emotions (3). “Thinking” is represented with the letter “T”, while Feeling is represented with the letter “F” (3).
Finally, we have the spectrum of “Judging-Perceiving” (3). People with a “Judging” trait tend to be more structural, remaining to be more solid people when it comes to their decisions (3). Meanwhile, people with the trait of “Perceiving” tend to have more adapting skills and are more flexible than a “Judging” person (3). The “Judging” trait is represented by the letter “J”, and the “Perceiving” trait is represented by the letter “P” (3).
Those trait spectrums eventually push you to associate yourself with one of the 16 personality groups. The more dominant a trait is in your personality, the better you are represented with it. This means that the groups of personality according to this system are ISTJ, INTJ, ISTP, INTP, ISFJ, ISFP, INFP, INFJ, ESTJ, ENTJ, ESTP, ENTP, ESFJ, ESFP, ENFP, and ENFJ (1). People tend to feel comfortable in one of those groups, meaning that identifying the specific ways of living is pretty prominent for expansive explanations, as aforementioned (1).
References:
The 16 MBTI® personality types. (2023, July 20). Myers & Briggs Foundation. https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/the-16-mbti-personality-types/
Blog, F. (2019, August 9). What are the 16 personality types? By [Myer Briggs] + free tests. Create Free Online Forms & Surveys in 2 Mins | Formplus. https://www.formpl.us/blog/personality-types
Myers-Briggs type indicator: The 16 personality types. (2011, June 20). Verywell Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-myers-briggs-type-indicator-2795583
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