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Date: January 20, 2011 03:58PM
According to Myers Briggs Educator Danielle Poirier, the dominant mental function is the most distinctive marker of a person’s personality type. Following this principle, she organizes the 16 Personality Types in four clusters:
The Four Primary Personality Types
Dominant Intuitive Types: INFJ, INTJ, ENFP, ENTP
Dominant Sensing Types: ISFJ, ISTJ, ESFP, ESTP
Dominant Thinking Types: ISTP, INTP, ESTJ, ENTJ
Dominant Feeling Types: ISFP, INFP, ESFJ, ENFJ
If you examine the MBTI Type letters within each group, You’ll note the Personality Types within a given cluster sometimes share only one letter with another member of their group. Some would find this odd, yet none-the-less all the types within a cluster have a solid basis for collaboration and communication because they share the same dominant mental function.
These four primary Type groups can be further sub-divided based on their energy orientation or attitude (Extraversion vs. Introversion):
The 8 Secondary Personality Types
Dominant Introverted Intuitive Types: INFJ & INTJ
Dominant Extraverted Intuitive Types: ENFP & ENTP
Dominant Introverted Sensing Types: ISFJ & ISTJ
Dominant Extraverted Sensing Types: ESFP & ESTP
Dominant Introverted Thinking Types: ISTP & INTP
Dominant Extraverted Thinking Types: ESTJ & ENTJ
Dominant Introverted Feeling Types: ISFP & INFP
Dominant Extraverted Feeling Types: ESFJ & ENFJ
Note within each of these 8 sub-groups, the individual Personality Types share 3 out of 4 MBTI ® letters. So not only do they share the important core mental function, individuals within each of these groups will likely share a number of behavior traits that are correlated with the three MBTI Type letters they share.
Organizing or ordering the Personality Types in this manner flows into a more recent extrapolation of the Myers-Jung mental functions. The original four (Intuition, Sensing, Thinking, and Feeling) now become eight when one considers the attitude or direction of the mental function (either Introverted or Extraverted). Thus the mental function of Intuition is divided into two: one mental function is Introverted Intuition and the second is Extraverted Intuition. While the two are related, Type educators who hold to this model believe the differences are enough to warrant the distinction. Some educators, like Hartzler and Nardi (see references and sources at this end of this article), have developed coaching models on these 8 functions - helping people learn to sharpen skills associated with one of more of the 8 mental functions (most typically those skills associated with mental functions that are less favored by a given type)
More of that at the following web address.
http://www.personalitypathways.com/16-personality-types.htmlEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2011 03:59PM by experienceheals.