The Dark Side of the MBTI: Psychological Type and Interpersonal Derailers

Abstract

Over 4000 British adults completed the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) (Hogan & Hogan, 1997) which measures eleven potential derailment behaviours ("dark side" traits) based on the personality disorders and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs & Myers, 1987) a famous measure of "normal" personality functioning. In all, five of the eleven "dark side" traits were correlated with the Extraversion-Introversion dimensions, none with Sensing-Intuition, seven with Thinking-Feeling and four with the Judging-Perceiving scale. Correlations were modest. Regressions with the four MBTI scales as criterion variables showed nine of the HDS factors were related to the T-F scale and accounted for 12% of the variance. Thinking types tended to be Sceptical, Reserved and Diligent. Overall correlations were low suggesting the MBTI assesses some aspects of dark side traits.

Testing the bipolar assumption of Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory for Korean adults using classification and multidimensional scaling

“…There are very few studies testing dimensions with less adaptive personality traits ( McCrae and Costa, 1989 ; MacDonald and Holland, 1993 ; MacDonald et al, 1994 ; Furnham et al, 2003 ) and psychological disorders ( Coolidge et al, 2001 ; Furnham and Crump, 2014 ), and ours is the first to directly test the bipolarity of personality types in the population with varying levels of psychological distress. Thus, it was challenging to compare our study with previous studies.…”

“…Out of the bipolar dimensions, S vs. N and F vs. T were not as significantly correlated with MMPI subscales as other dimensions. Furnham and Crump (2014) used the Hogan Development Survey to measure dark-side variables that depict personality disorders and the MBTI on working adults in England. Five of the 11 dark-side traits were correlated with the E vs.…”

Are Personality-Based Intellectual Styles Culture Specific or Universal?

“…Of the nine studies centered on the Jungian personality styles, four involved cognitive outcomes (Karimnia and Mahjubi, 2013 ; Kim et al, 2013 ; Ayoubi and Ustwani, 2014 ; Rashid and Duys, 2015 ), two concerned affective outcomes (Ahmed, 2015 ; Choi et al, 2018 ), one pertained to ego development (Vincent et al, 2013 ), and two concerned interpersonal behaviors (Brandt and Laiho, 2013 ; Furnham and Crump, 2014 ). In the following, these studies are introduced.…”

“…In the second study, Furnham and Crump ( 2014 ) investigated the relationship between personality styles and dysfunctional interpersonal behaviors among 4,812 British working adults. The participants responded to the MBTI-Form G (Briggs and Myers, 1987 ) and the Hogan Development Survey (Hogan and Hogan, 1997 ).…”

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