In psychology, there are different classifications of personality types. One of the most popular was developed by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss doctor, psychotherapist. Jung believed that each person belongs to either an extrovert or an introvert type; to sensory or intuitive; to ethical or logical.
Why you need to know the type of personality
- Predict behavior, one's own and another's.
- To understand your strengths and weaknesses, on this basis to choose a profession, work, sphere for development.
- Be more tolerant of your own and others' characteristics.
What you do not need to do with personality type
- You do not need to try to attract yourself to a certain type, because knowing the type of personality from useful information turns into a label, and the label is bad because behind it we do not see a living person with his real manifestations, including himself.
- Do not use personality type for self-justification. Instead, it is necessary to take into account your strengths and weaknesses when making decisions, as well as draw conclusions from the consequences of these decisions.
What are the types of personality in psychology
By type of person, a person can be
- extrovert or introvert,
- intuitive or touch type,
- ethical or logical type.
Each person belongs to one pole at each of these three dichotomies. This means that at the same time you can be extroverted, sensory and ethical type, for example. Or inverted, touch and logical. And so on.