Manual, a guide to the development and use of the Myers-Briggs type indicator /

Myers, Isabel Briggs.

Manual, a guide to the development and use of the Myers-Briggs type indicator / by Isabel Briggs Myers and Mary H. McCaulley ; [editor, Robert Most]. - Palo Alto, Ca. : Consulting Psychologists Press, c1985. - x, 309 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Bibliography: p. 296-309.

Chap. 1. Introduction -- Chap. 2. Administering and scoring the MBTI -- Chap. 3. The theory behind the MBTI -- Chap. 4. Understanding the sixteen types -- Chap. 5. Initial interpretation and verification -- Chap. 6. Use of type in counseling -- Chap. 7. Using type in career counseling -- Chap. 8. Uses of type in education -- Chap. 9. Construction and properties of the MBTI -- Chap. 10. Reliability -- Chap. 11.Validity -- Appendix A. Glossary -- Appendix B. Sources and description of samples -- Appendix C. Mean preference scores of MBTI preferences by age groups -- Appendix D. Type of publications -- Notes -- References.

The aims of this second edition are to make available all the research reported by Isabel Briggs Myers in the first edition (Myers, 1962), to clarify points that have been frequently misunderstood, to describe more specifically how to interpret the MBTI, and to add new data from research since the first edition.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Typology (Psychology).
Personality inventory.
Counseling.

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