Eric B
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The MBTI's attempt to keep up is the Type Differentiation Indicator, which adds the Comfort-Discomfort dimension as the fifth factor. But this seems to be only a specialty instrument (like in psych wards or something).MBTI is like a Big Five test without the neuroticism dimension. That's really the only interesting thing about it. The theory behind it is utter, laughable crap, just like the theories of Freud.
The Five Factor Model has by far the most support. There really is no competition, and the NEO-PI-R is the best and most reliable personality test out there. When I studied personality psychology, MBTI was never mentioned, and there was no research findings referenced in the book that used MBTI, while there were tons of studies which had used the Five Factor Model.
You cannot really use MBTI in research and expect to be taken serisouly, the golden standard is the Five Factor Model...
In 1984 two jungian analysts--Singer and Loomis-- began developing an alternative to MBTI, called the S-L TDI.
The main reasons were:
1) The profiles were not consistent with the characteristics of many individuals.
2) Criticisms of MBTI
In a nutshell, Singer and Loomis determined the cause:
The oppositional pairs and the forced-choice test format.
MBTI claims but never actually proves an ENTJ's order of 8 functions are:
Te
Ni
Se
Fi
Ti
Ne
Si
Fe
MBTI doesn't allow for even the possibility of any other order.
If one is seeking the truth, we don't do so by playing a rigged game.
To validate (or invalidate) is easy:
Test each function independently.
If you claim the function order of a particular type is 12345678,
then create a system to check it.
Singer and Loomis did.
They used a completely different test format: no forced-choice questions.
Instead, they used a Likert scaled format: 20 situations, with 8 possible responses.
Each response correlates with the two orientations ( extraverted or introverted), and 4 functions.
The individual would rank how often they would respond a certain way,
in each of the proposed scenarios. 1= never, leading up to 5=always.
By doing so, they actually proved Jung's own assumption of bi-polarity,
did not hold up for all, but did hold up for some.
Data Source:
Singer-Loomis TDI : The Next Generation of Psychological Type Instrument
S. Dugan and K.Wilson
Haskayne School of Business
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
July 3, 2002.
I'd like to try that! It doesn't seem to be offered online anywhere, though I did find a site selling the reports and literature.
Otherwise, the closest thing to this in concept would be Nardi's cognitive process tests. I wonder if he got the idea or drew from them.