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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

MBTI

What it measures
Four Jungian preference dichotomies - Extraversion/Introversion (E/I), Sensing/Intuition (S/N), Thinking/Feeling (T/F), Judging/Perceiving (J/P) - yielding 16 types; Step II adds 20 facets
Length and format
Form M = 93 items; Form Q (Step II) = 144 items. Forced-choice (two-option) word-pair and statement items (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into 25+ languages (Chinese simplified/traditional, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu, Spanish, and more)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Myers, I. B., McCaulley, M. H., Quenk, N. L., & Hammer, A. L. (1998). MBTI Manual (3rd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: CPP / The Myers-Briggs Company.

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