In psychology, there are different classifications of personality types. One of the most popular was developed by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss physician, psychotherapist. Jung believed that everyone is either extroverted or introverted; to touch or intuitive; to ethical or logical.
Why you need to know the personality type
- Predict behavior, one's own and others'.
- Understand your strengths and weaknesses, on this basis, choose a profession, job, area for development.
- Be more tolerant of your own and others' characteristics.
What not to do with your personality type
- There is no need to try to draw yourself to a certain type, because knowledge of a personality type turns from useful information into a label, and the label is bad because behind it we do not see a living person with his real manifestations, including himself.
- You shouldn't use your personality type for self-justification. Instead, you need to consider your strengths and weaknesses when making decisions, and draw conclusions from the consequences of those decisions.
What are the types of personality in psychology
By personality type, a person can be
- extrovert or introvert,
- intuitive or sensory type,
- ethical or logical type.
Each person belongs to one pole in each of these three dichotomies. This means that at the same time you can be an extroverted, sensory and ethical type, for example. Either inverted, sensory and logical. Etc.
How personality types differ from each other
An extrovert is a person who is primarily oriented towards the outside world, while an introvert is oriented towards the inner world. This manifests itself in each case in different ways. Here we are talking more about the sphere of values, the value orientation of a person - outward or inward - than behavior. In other words, in different situations one and the same person may behave like an introvert or an extrovert, but the dominant personal attitude remains the same.
Sensory and intuitive types differ in what a person is more focused on, where he is more comfortable and interesting, and in which of the worlds he is ready to solve complex problems - in the material world or the world of ideas.
Logical and ethical types differ according to whether a person is directed at information exchange with other people, with the environment. Either communication, interaction, establishing contact is more important for him.
