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- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Step II Facet Scales & the Strong, Part III
- About the Strong Interest Inventory®: Conventional Theme & College Majors
- About the FIRO-B™: Team Preferences – Central Types
- The 16PF®– The 16 Personality Factors: Correlations with Myers-Briggs, Part V - Thinking
- Group Testing
- Have Brian Speak to Your Group About Myers-Briggs
This month we'll continue looking at the relationships between the facet scores on the MBTI Step II Interpretive Report and the six themes of the Strong Interest Inventory. We'll continue with the five facet scales involving Thinking and Feeling. The sample size used was quite small and mostly male engineering students, so we cannot generalize too much from these results. Still, it's interesting to see the patterns. Most of the Strong themes correlated with Thinking on the Myers-Briggs.
As a quick review, a correlation might be positive or negative. That means scores either move in tandem or in the opposite direction on the two tests. The direction is not the same as the strength of the relationship. It could be strong or weak in either direction.
Let's start with the Realistic theme. All the relationships were negative, meaning all the facet scales were on the Thinking side of the scale. The strongest correlation was with Logical – Empathetic scale, meaning Realistic types are likely to be Logical. The weakest relationship was with Questioning – Accommodating, but it too was negative, meaning Realistic types are likely to show up on the Questioning side of the scale.
The Investigative theme correlations were also all negative, once again meaning Investigative types are likely to score on the Thinking side of the scale. The strongest relationship was on the Logical – Empathetic scale, and the weakest on the Questioning – Accommodating.
For Artistic types, three correlations were positive. The greatest correlation was negative, on the Questioning – Accommodating facet, meaning they were likely to be on the Questioning side. This is probably not what one would expect from Artistic types. The greatest positive correlation was on the Critical – Accepting facet, meaning Artistic types are likelier to score on the Accepting side.
For Social types, only one correlation was negative (Logical – Empathetic), which is surprising. One would likely expect Social types to empathetic rather than logical. The greatest positive effect was on the Critical – Accepting facet, meaning they were likely to be Accepting. The smallest effect was on the Questioning – Accommodating facet.
Enterprising types had all negative correlations, meaning they tend to show up on the Thinking side of the scale. The greatest correlation was with the Logical – Empathetic scale, the smallest on the Questioning – Accommodating facet.
Finally, Conventional types had all negative correlations, with the Logical – Empathetic scale the strongest and the Questioning – Accommodating facet the weakest.
Next month we’ll look at the final set of facet scales.
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The latest version of the Strong was released in December 2004. One study looked at the relationship between themes on the Strong and the college majors chosen by the participants. This month we'll look at those who scored highest on the Conventional scale.
Let's start with the men. The top college majors for this group were Computer Technology, Information Systems, Marketing, Management, Administration, Engineering, Psychology, and Biological Science.
For women, the list included Accounting, Information Systems, Finance, Administration, International Business, Management, Mathematics, and Marketing.
As with all statistics, these results cannot predict how any one individual will respond to the Strong based on his or her major alone. It's also true that people with the same majors had different top themes on the Strong. Therefore, no one should pick or drop a major because his or her top theme on the Strong might indicate it’s not as popular with the group.
People vary considerably in their desire to have contact with others, from very little to a great deal of interaction with others. Your Overall Interpersonal Needs score can tell us a lot about how your will likely perform on a team. This month we'll look at those in the medium-high range, which is a score between 28 and 38. These types are generally considered Central.
People who have scores in this range generally like to be on teams, but may overextend themselves by participating in too many. As a result, other job duties may not be done in a timely manner, or neglected altogether. Many people with scores in this range prefer working in sub-groups, or want to avoid meeting with the whole team. Like other types, they are likely to consider their team role, their own skills, the skills of other team members, the time constraints, and more to determine how much or little they will participate. They are likely to carefully weigh a number of influencing issues to help guide them in choosing a team role. Even though they enjoy teams for the most part, they often prefer not to be on a team continuously. If they have been working on a team for an extended period, they are likely to want a break in the action and work individually again.
Let"s look at how the 16 scales correlate to the scale on the Myers-Briggs. A positive correlation means that as the score on one scale goes up, the score on the other scale goes up also. A negative correlation means the opposite. For example, someone with a low score on Factor A is likely to show up on the Thinking side of the MBTI. Someone with a high score on Factor B probably would too.
For Thinking on the Myers-Briggs, here are the correlations from the 16PF:
Factor A (Warmth): Negative
Factor B (Reasoning): Positive
Factor C (Emotional Stability): Positive
Factor E (Dominance): Positive
Factor F (Liveliness): Negative
Factor G (Rule-Consciousness): Negative
Factor H (Social Boldness): Positive
Factor I (Sensitivity): Negative
Factor L (Vigilance): Positive
Factor M (Abstractedness): Negative
Factor N (Privateness): Positive
Factor O (Apprehension): Negative
Factor Q1 (Openness to Change): Negative
Factor Q2 (Self-Reliance): Positive
Factor Q3 (Perfectionism): Positive
Factor Q4 (Tension): Positive
The factors with the greatest positive correlation to Thinking are N, E, and L. Those with the greatest negative correlation are O, A, and I.
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