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05 Personality Type Indicator

This document describes the 16 personality types based on four dichotomies: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving. Each dichotomy is characterized by opposing traits. For example, Extraversion is described as gregarious, enthusiastic, and initiative while Introversion is described as intimate, quiet, and receptive. The document provides definitions and examples to illustrate each of the 16 personality types resulting from the combinations of the four dichotomies.

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05 Personality Type Indicator

This document describes the 16 personality types based on four dichotomies: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving. Each dichotomy is characterized by opposing traits. For example, Extraversion is described as gregarious, enthusiastic, and initiative while Introversion is described as intimate, quiet, and receptive. The document provides definitions and examples to illustrate each of the 16 personality types resulting from the combinations of the four dichotomies.

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YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE INDICATOR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Your Extraversion Your Introversion

GREGARIOUS – drawn to large number and variety of INTIMATE - most comfortable in small groups and with one-on-one
relationships. relationships.

ENTHUSIASTIC – being energetically with the "action" and at QUIET - present themselves modestly, drawn to the calm away from
the center of things. the center of action.

INITIATOR - social facilitator, assertively outgoing, build RECEPTOR - content to let others initiate social amenities - even to
bridges among people. the point of being overlooked.

EXPRESSIVE - easy to know, approachable, warm, readily CONTAINED - well controlled, calm exterior, often difficult for others to
show feelings. "read.".

AUDITORY - learn through listening, active dialogue, and VISUAL - learn through observation, reflection, reading, and more
involvement with others. solitary means.

Your Sensing Your Intuition

CONCRETE - depend on verifiable, factual information and ABSTRACT - comfortable with and inferring meaning from ambiguous
direct perceptions. Literal, mistrust fuzzy information and non-literal information. Perceptive.

REALISTIC - value being practical, cost-effective, and IMAGINATIVE - enjoy being ingenious, clever and novel . . . for its
exercising common sense. own sake.

PRAGMATIC - highly values the usefulness or applications of INTELLECTUAL - learning, acquiring knowledge, mental challenges are
an idea - more interesting than idea itself. valued as an end in itself.

THEORETICAL - conceptual, automatically search for patterns in


EXPERIENTIAL - heavily grounded by first hand, past
observed facts, comfortable with theories and inventing new ones.
experience. Reluctant to generalize beyond direct experience.
Resourceful.

TRADITIONAL - trust what is familiar, support established ORIGINAL - values initiative and enterprising, inventive, and novel
groups and methods, and honor precedents. solutions. Often mistrusts conventional wisdom.

Your Thinking Your Feeling

CRITICAL - comfortable making distinctions, categorizing, ACCEPTING - tolerant towards human failings, see positive side of
making win/lose choices, being in adversarial situations. others, instinctually seeks win/win resolutions of problems.

TOUGH MINDED - results oriented, ends justify the means, TENDER HEARTED - use gentle persuasion to influence, reluctant to
stick on task. Firm force compliance..
QUESTIONING - intellectually independent, resistant to ACCOMMODATING - seeks consensus, deferential, conflict avoiding,
influence, self-confident. seeks harmony.

LOGICAL - values and trusts detached, objective, and logical AFFECTIVE - trusts emotions and feelings, values human
analysis. considerations, in touch with feelings.

REASONABLE - is clear-thinking, objective, reasoned, and COMPASSIONATE - makes decisions on overall impressions,
logical in everyday decision-making. patterns, and feelings (including emotional likes and dislikes).

Your Judging Your Perceiving

EARLY STARTER - focused. Structure activities to work on


PRESSURE PROMPTED - prefers variety and multi-tasking. Most
one thing at a time, allowing adequate time for proper
effectively energized when working close to deadlines.
completion.

SYSTEMATIC – prefers orderly, structured and programmed CASUAL - comfortable making adjustments as situation requires.
responses. Likes formal contingency planning. Prefers informal guidelines vs. structured rules. Adaptable.

SCHEDULED – creates and easily follows standardized and SPONTANEOUS - dislikes repeatedly following the same routines.
familiar routines. Seeks variety and change.

PLANNED.- likes to schedule future commitments far in OPEN-ENDED - strongly values preserving flexibility and freedom,
advance, uses dates and deadlines to organize their energies. dislikes being tied down by long range plans. Makes flexible plans.

METHODICAL - implements projects in a planned, organized, EMERGENT - ad hoc planner. Moves quickly into action without
and step-by-step manner. Self-programming. detailed plans, plans on the go. Risk taking.

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