PAR41449

PAR41449 Part 1 **__1st Assessment__**

ESFX(JP) Extroversion: I have a tendency to influence other people by talking to them face-to-face Closest to ESFJ: I seek to develop harmony in relationships and promote cooperation and teamwork. Regard the need of others as very important, perhaps more so than my own. Encourage and motivate others, a gender team spirit, and try to overcome any conflict by finding common ground and ways in which people can agree. Leadership style: I'm a participative leader. Participative leaders achieve through people, through team work, and through collective involvement in the task. We involve building collective ownership and commitment within the group. We make people feel valued as as integral part of the team so that everyone achieves the goals through relationships and cooperative teamwork. **__2nd Assessment__**

Factor I: Extroversion (32) between extroversion and introversion II: Agreeableness (32) relatively high III: Conscientiousness (46) relatively high IV: Neuroticism (9) relatively low v: Openness (18) relatively low Part 2

In doing the personality assessments, I felt comfortable about taking them. They were both informative assessments. I choose the second assessment to be the most accurate about me. I make this choice because it gives more expanded information. It did not just localize things, but gave a broader determination of characteristics about me. To me the easiest assessment to take out of the two was the second one. It gave the exact answers to respond to and not questions that puts you between where you really had to think where your answer should go, rather answering in between as the first assessment did. The first assessment was the easiest to interpret because everything was written out and to the point about your results. On the second assessment it gave you an idea of where you fell within a range. Both were decent assessments, but in my opinion, I would stick with the second because of the questions that were presented to me and how they were presented. Part 3

It is being said that scientists are moving from the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) to the Big 5(five-factor model of personality), and there are reasons being given for this change. According to the article by David Pittenger, the MBTI can be used by career counselors to help clients find jobs for which they are best suited and with which they will be most satisfied. There are many researches out there that are suggesting that the claims being made about the MBTI cannot be supported. Even though it is measuring something in individuals, psychologists are not convinced that any significant conclusions can be based on the test. This test was created in the beginning as a test for personnel selection. The creator believed that different occupations favored different personality orientations, and that Jung's theory provided a theoretical link between personality and job performance. MBTI's theory is that each person's personality fits into only one of 16 types. On the reliability side research on the factor analysis are not producing convincing results and says that statistical analysis are being found inconsistent with the MBTI theory. Through ongoing research, there is no evidence to show a positive relation between MBTI and success within an occupations that are other types or that they stay longer in one occupation than do others. The MBTI has become a popular instrument for reasons unrelated to its reliability and validity. The abstract by McCrae and Costa suggests that the MBTI was evaluated from the perspective of Jung's theory of psychological types and the five-factor model of personality as measured by self-reports and peer ratings. The MBTI has features of it that cannot provide a sound basis for interpreting it, and the five-factor model provides an alternative basis for interpreting MBTI findings within a broader, more commonly shared conceptual framework.

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