Their first version of the assessment, The Briggs Myers Type Indicator Handbook, was published in 1944, and it was a test that could be printed out. There are sixteen of these personality types and each one is more likely to have certain talents or skills in the workplace or in relationships. The combinations of these four “sides” creates a personality type: an ENTJ, for example, is more extraverted, uses intuition, is more likely to think than feel, and judges before perceiving. Their assessment determined whether a person was more introverted than extroverted, more likely to think versus feel, etc. So they took all of the dichotomies and created a test that would show which “side” we stood on. Briggs and Briggs Myers believed that if women could understand Jung’s theories and assess their personality, they would be able to look for jobs that would best suit their interests and personalities.
Women were looking for work at unprecedented rates, many for the first time. Perception.Īt the time that Briggs and her daughter were researching Jung’s theories, America was involved in World War Two. These functions were the dichotomies that we associate with the test today: Extraversion vs.
Jung believed that humans experienced the world using four different functions. The duo taught themselves about the science of personality testing through their fascination with in theories created by Carl Jung. They were just a mother and daughter who became interested in studying personalities. Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers were not world-renowned psychologists.
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