Table 1-3

The Four Preferences Scored to Generate Types


 Does the person's interest flow mainly to

 The outer world of actions The inner world of concepts
 objects, and persons? and ideas?

 E Extraversion Introversion I



 Does the person prefer to Perceive

 The immediate, real, The possibilities,
 practical facts of experience relationships, and meanings
 and life? of experiences?

 S Sensing Intuition N



 Does the person prefer to make Judgments or decisions

 Objectively, impersonally, Subjectively and personally,
 considering causes of events weighing values of choices
 and where decisions may lead? and how they matter to
 others?

 T Thinking Feeling F



 Does the person prefer mostly to live

 In a decisive, planned and In a spontaneous, flexible
 orderly way, aiming to regulate way aiming to understand
 and control events? life and adapt to it?

 J Judgment Perception P


Note. Adapted from McCaulley, M. H. (1981), Jung's theory of
psychological type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In P.
McReynolds (Ed.), Advances in Psychological Assessment (p. 298). San
Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass. Used with permission.