Makale Özeti: The Relationship between Psychological Type and the Three Major Dimensions of Personality

In this study, the relationship between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the short-term Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised are examined.
There are lots of studies about dimension of personality. Aim of these studies is to classify human characteristics in order to establish basis for understanding, explaining, predicting individual differences in attitude, behavior, and performance.
Some of personality assessment instrument from past to now;
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the work of Cattell, Eber, and Tatsuoka in their sixteen Personality Questionnaire, the work of Costa and McCrae in their Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory, and by the work of Eysenck, Wilson, and Jackson in the Eysenck Personality Profiler.
Myers-Briggs Type indicator offered that there are four sets of dichotomous mental processes:
Orientation;
Extraversion (E): preference talking rather than listening and reflecting, sociability, expressiveness, possession of an apparent breadth of interest. In other word, it is acting and outer world. High score: hearty (over quiet), sociable (over detached), and lively (over calm).
Introversion (I): preference listening and reflecting rather than talking or doing, reservedness, contemplativeness, and the possession of apparent depth of interest. High score: quiet (over heart), detached (over sociable), and calm (over lively).
Perceiving Functions;
Sensing (S): focus on present actualities, attention to details, trust of experiences, and practicality. High score on this scale: like ideas (over facts), concept (over statement), and theory (over certainty).
Intuition (N): focus on meanings and relationship, attention to patterns, trust of inspiration, and inventiveness. High score on this scale: like facts (over ideas), statement (over concept), and certainty (over theory).
Judging Functions;
Thinking (T): decision-making using by analytic thinking and feeling; reasonableness, tough-mindedness, fairness, and integrity. High score on this scale: like firm (over gentle), justice (over mercy), and analyze (over sympathize).
Feeling (F): decision-making using by subjective; empathy, compassion, tender-heartedness, and desire for harmony. High score on this scale: like gentle (over firm), mercy (over justice), and sympathize (over analyze).
The core of last dichotomous is “How people orient themselves to the external world”
Judging Process (J): feeling or thinking of people who employ judging process; seek to order, rationalize, structure their outside world. High score on this scale: like decision (over impulse), orderly (over easygoing), and scheduled (over unplanned).
Perceiving Process (P): Sensing or intuitions of people who employ perceiving process; do not seek to order, but more spontaneity, flexibility, openness, and casualness. High score on this scale: like impulse (over decision), easygoing (over orderly), and unplanned (over scheduled).
Eysenck’s Model;

Neuroticism Scale: from emotional stability, through emotional lability, to neurotic disorder.
Psychoticism Scale: from tender-mindedness, through tough-mindedness, to psychotic disorder.
Extraversion Scale: from introversion, through ambiversion, to extraversion.

The major difference between short-term EPQ-R and MBTI is that the Eysenckian scales test to understand normal personality and abnormal personality; MBTI scale are designed in order to assess normal personality features.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the short-term Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised are used. 554 undergraduate first-year students were participated this study form United Kingdom.
Results of this study;
First; MBTI’s scale of introversion and extraversion is highly correlated with Eysenckian’s neuroticism and extraversion. MBTI’s introversion scale would be described neurotic introverts, extraversion of MBTI described as stable extraverts.
Second; Perceiving scale of MBTI correlates positively with Eysenckian Psychoticism scale. Both of scale includes impulsivity. According to Myers and McCaulley described preference for perceiving as involving impulsivity and also if individual have high score on psychoticism scale than impulsivity of individual increases.

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References
Francis, L., J., Craig, C., L., & Robbins, M.(2007). The relationship between psychological type and the three major dimensions of personality. current psychology