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Gifts Differing

Gifts Differing

Understanding Personality Type

Author: Briggs Myers, Isabel, Myers, Peter B.


Paperback, ISBN 978-0-891060-74-1
£12.99
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Quick Overview

Every year over 2.5 million people take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator© assessment, the most widely used personality measure in history. Gifts Differing describes the ground-breaking insights embodied in the MBTI© inventory and explains its many practical applications. Distinguishing four categories of personality preferences - Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving - this book details how different combinations of these qualities determine the way we perceive the world and how we respond to and interact with it. Type tables show how type preferences correlate with occupational interests, and clear descriptions of the sixteen types illustrate how the different functions interact. Over 150,000 copies sold.

Publication Date: May 3, 1995


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Every year over 2.5 million people take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator© assessment, the most widely used personality measure in history. Gifts Differing describes the ground-breaking insights embodied in the MBTI© inventory and explains its many practical applications. Distinguishing four categories of personality preferences - Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving - this book details how different combinations of these qualities determine the way we perceive the world and how we respond to and interact with it. Type tables show how type preferences correlate with occupational interests, and clear descriptions of the sixteen types illustrate how the different functions interact. Over 150,000 copies sold.
Contents Preface Preface to Original Printing Publisher's Foreword Publisher's Note Part I: Theory 1 An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences 2 Extensions of Jung's Theory Part II: Effects of the Preferences of Personality 3 Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery 4 Effect of the EI Preference 5 Effect of the SN Preference 6 Effect of the TF Preference 7 Effect of the JP Preference 8 Extraverted and Introverted Forms of the Process Compared 9 Descriptions of the Sixteen Types Part III: Practical Implications of Type 10 Use of Opposites 11 Type and Marriage 12 Type and Early Learning 13 Learning Styles 14 Type and Occupation Part IV: Dynamics of Type Development 15 Type and the Task of Growing Up 16 Good Type Development 17 Obstacles to Type Development 18 Motivation for Type Development in Children 19 Going on From Wherever You Are Endnotes References About Isabel Briggs Myers Full Size Type Table Index
The late Isabel Briggs Myers devoted her life to the observation, study, and measurement of personality. With her mother, Katharine Briggs, she authored the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator© personality inventory. Peter B. Myers, Ph.D., continues research work on the development and application of personality type. Former staff director of the National Academy of Science, he is currently extending the use of the MBTI© intrument worldwide.

”Ringing with practical implications, Gifts Differing both educates and inspires.”—Judy Waterman, Principal, Career Management Group