Negative: The MBTI: Not Ready for Routine Use in Counseling

Healy, Charles C.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1989.tb02125.x

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“…This conclusion is supported by recent reviews (Healy, 1989;Wiggins, 1989) that urge that the MBTI be used cautiously until more validity studies have been conducted. Therefore, the present study was conducted and designed to investigate the validity of the three major assertions described above.…”

Section: Related Research Studiessupporting

confidence: 68%

The Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems

Douglass¹,

Douglass²

1993

Family Relations

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Section: Related Research Studiessupporting

confidence: 68%

The Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems

Douglass¹,

Douglass²

1993

Family Relations

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“…However, popular Jungian measures have been criticized on various grounds (cf. Healy, 1989;Merenda, 1991). For example, the MBTI's dichotomous scoring, forced-choice response format, and differential gender weighting of responses have all been criticized.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the MBTI has been very popular, heated controversy has occurred, nonetheless, regarding the measure's psychometric properties (cf. Carlson, 1989;Healy, 1989;McCaulley, 1991;Merenda, 1991). In particular, three criticisms may be argued.…”

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Alternative Ways of Measuring Counselees' Jungian Psychological‐Type Preferences

Vacha‐Haase

Thompson

2002

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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Instruments measuring Carl Jung's (1921/1971) theory of psychological types have been widely used in various counseling contexts, including career counseling, marital and family therapy and team building. The most popular measure of types, the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), was developed by Katherine C. Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, but the MBTI has been criticized for (a) dichotomous scoring, (b) forced‐choice response formats, and (c) differential gender weighting of item responses. The authors conducted 2 studies (N1 = 207; N2 = 894) exploring the psychometric properties of scores from an alternative measure of types, the Personal Preferences Self‐Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ). Results suggest that the PPSDQ may successfully address concerns with alternative measures.

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“…The MBTI. Carlson (1989) and Healy (1989) debated whether the MBTI was ready for counseling use. Although it was apparently widely used by our respondents, it is still plagued by questions about the reliability of the continuous and the dichotomous type scales.…”

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Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development, 1989

Spokane

Hawks

1990

The Career Development Quart

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In writing this review, we asked ourselves what novel cut of the 1989 career literature we might make. Several earlier reviews were cleverly organized using the structure inherent in the research and theoretical literature published during the review period (Fitzgerald & Rounds, 1989;Savickas, 1989a). Other reviews selected articles for inclusion based on methodological rigor, author preference, or preponderance in number. We believed that it was possible to organize a selective review based upon counselor practice and to highlight any discrepancies between what counselors actually do and the topical coverage in the career literature.Thus, our organization reflects our belief that an analysis of counselor practices would produce a different representation of the state of our field than would the standard literary analysis. The title also underscores Myers's (1986) assertion that advances in career counseling sometimes proceed from the practitioner to the researcher or Arnold R.

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Negative: The MBTI: Not Ready for Routine Use in Counseling

Cited by 33 publications

References 5 publications

The Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems

The Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems

Alternative Ways of Measuring Counselees' Jungian Psychological‐Type Preferences

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development, 1989

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