Girelli S A, Stake J E
University of Missouri-St. Louis.
J Pers Assess. 1993 Apr;60(2):290-301. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa6002_7.
The standard form of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI; Myers & McCaulley, 1985) was constructed to measure introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuiting, and thinking/feeling as single, bipolar dimensions. We tested this assumption of bipolarity with a Likert form of the MBTI that allowed for the independent assessment of each attitude and function. A total of 106 female and 59 male undergraduate and graduate students completed the standard and Likert MBTI forms approximately 3 weeks apart. Evidence for the bipolarity of the introversion/extroversion dimension was weak, and findings did not support the bipolarity of the sensing/intuiting or thinking/feeling dimensions. Results provide evidence that high negative correlations within MBTI dimensions are an artifact of its forced-choice format. Implications of the findings for typology measurement are discussed.
迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标（MBTI；迈尔斯与麦考利，1985）的标准形式旨在将内向/外向、实感/直觉以及思考/情感作为单一的双极维度进行测量。我们使用MBTI的李克特量表形式对这种双极性假设进行了测试，该量表允许对每种态度和功能进行独立评估。共有106名女学生和59名男学生（包括本科生和研究生）在大约相隔3周的时间里分别完成了标准形式和李克特量表形式的MBTI测试。内向/外向维度双极性的证据很薄弱，研究结果也不支持实感/直觉或思考/情感维度的双极性。结果表明，MBTI各维度内的高负相关是其强制选择格式造成的假象。本文讨论了这些研究结果对类型学测量的启示。
