This document is an overview and research on the relationship between Myers-Briggs type index (MBTI) and Clifton strength index, which provides more opportunities to know yourself through personal tests.
As a unique individual, people are often difficult to measure and explain, so the process of classifying people is extremely challenging and easy to fall into randomness.
As an effective means of self-cognition, psychological assessment can promote the understanding and discussion of preferences and talents of groups and organizations, which is very valuable.
The main difference between these two tools is that they are designed to measure different dimensions of individuals: Clifton Spander measures talents that bring performance, while MBTI measures cognitive psychological patterns.
In a word, MBTI provides information about a person's experience and understanding of the surrounding environment, while Clifton Stransford provides insight into a person's performance and recurring thoughts, feelings and behavior patterns related to success.
The classification of MBTI is based on carl jung's theory of psychological types of consciousness. MBTI classifies individuals into one of 16 personality types by measuring four opposite bipolar dimensions: extroversion or introversion, perception or intuition, emotion or thinking, judgment or perception. The middle two categories are considered as "psychological functions"-how a person's natural tendency to accept information (feeling or intuition) and how to evaluate information (emotion or thinking).
The first and fourth categories are considered as the "directions" of how psychological functions are presented. That is, the direction in which individuals gain energy and concentration (inward or outward) and how to deal with the relationship with the outside world (judgment or perception). The resulting four-letter type represents two opposite extreme personal preferences in each category.
The dynamic relationship between these four preferences shows the basic personality types. This information helps to gain a deeper understanding of how individuals gain energy, process information and take actions according to their judgments.
For example, an "inward thinking" person may spend a lot of time dealing with internal ideas, while an "outward thinking" person may spend a lot of time dealing with ideas in the world, and he will "think loudly" (talk while thinking) when exploring the value and significance of these ideas.
An individual can develop skills and abilities contrary to his type, but the most comfortable thing is to develop in the direction he likes.
Clifton Stepford was founded by Dr Clifton Donald. Dr. Donald focuses on what he is best at. The American Psychological Association praised his personal talent and achievements and called Clifton "the father of leading psychology".
Talent is defined as the spontaneous and continuous thinking, feeling and behavior patterns displayed by individuals. Research shows that when a person's greatest talent is used efficiently, it is his greatest opportunity to develop an advantage-an advantage: a continuous and almost perfect performance of doing one thing.
Clifton StrengthsFinder measures 34 talents and calls them "themes". After a person completes the 177 sentence selection test, he or she will receive a special report, introducing the five most important talent topics he or she showed through the evaluation.
Five themes are unique to individuals: five of the 34 themes have 278,256 possible combinations, and when you consider the order of the five themes, this number becomes more than 33 million sets of different featured themes.
Clifton StrengthsFinder provides people with a way to discover talents and creates a language system to describe talents, so that people can express their unique talents. Compared with the traditional superficial description, the dominant language is deeper and more accurate.
For example, when considering how a person may communicate with others, it is helpful if you know that this person will naturally discover and cultivate the potential of others and grow up to be satisfied with seeing others (Bole).
Clifton StrengthsFinder recognizes talent, a person's spontaneous and lasting performance, and reveals its powerful potential, which will produce the greatest investment value. When these in-depth findings are shared within the organization, employees will naturally and enthusiastically pay attention to how to better improve what they and the team are best at.
comparative study
Phil Si Tong, a late Gallup senior scientist and former psychology professor at Harvard University, studied the relationship between MBTI and Clifton Strangfield. Alice made these two complete evaluations through her 206 students. The research shows that there is an expected correlation between the two assessments.
For example, if Clifton Stransfield shows that analysis is one of your five themes, you may belong to MBTI's third-dimensional thinking. If understanding is one of your five themes, your second dimension of MBTI may be sensory. Similarly, if you have discipline, you may be MBTI. The fourth dimension is judgment.
Si Tong students' feedback on Clifton strength theory is more applicable and accurate than MBTI.
For example, imagine a house with several rooms. MBTI said that one of them is the most comfortable room to live in. Clifton StrengthsFinder represents the furniture, equipment, decoration and other details in the room, thus helping us to understand the unique natural abilities of individuals. Both MBTI and Clifton Stenfeld can reveal valuable information about personality and help individuals and organizations to carry out strategic development.
Recognizing the different measurement objectives of these two tools will enable us to use them more effectively.
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