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The first self-assessment based on Marston's DISC theory was created in 1956 by Walter Clarke, an industrial psychologist. In 1956, Clarke created the Activity Vector Analysis, a checklist of adjectives on which he asked people to indicate descriptions that were accurate about themselves. [6]
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims [6] to categorize individuals into 16 distinct "psychological types" or "personality types". The MBTI was constructed during World War II by Americans Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers , inspired by Swiss ...
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) A psychometric questionnaire measuring psychological preferences in how most people perceive the world and make decisions, based on Carl Jung's four principal psychological functions of how humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. 1921 Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA)
Both DISC, and Myers Briggs, and indeed almost any other personality measurement instrument, can in theory be used to assess another person as well as for self-assessment. That is just as true for Myers Briggs as for DISC. The very important point, however, is the question as to whether assessments of other people are of any value.
Examples are DISC assessment and social styles. One of the most popular today is the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, attributed to the work of David Keirsey, whose four temperaments were based largely on the Greek gods Apollo, Dionysus, Epimetheus, and Prometheus, and were mapped to the 16 types of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
The site is hosted by John A. Johnson, the author of the shorter equivalent inventory. [11] The longer equivalent from 1999 was created by Lewis Goldberg who also created IPIP. [12] Open Source Psychometrics Project hosts Goldberg's 50-question version [13] of the Big Five traits and an IPIP emulation of the 16PF questionnaire. [14]
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One study that directly compared a "type" instrument (the MBTI) to a "trait" instrument (the NEO PI) found that the trait measure was a better predictor of personality disorders. [7] Because of these problems, personality type theories have fallen out of favor in psychology.