Personality Assessment General Information

Personality Intro

Your type is determined by the four preferences that you “voted for” when answering the questions on the personality type indicator test. Since each of the eight preferences can be represented by a letter (E, I, S, N, T, F, J or P), a four-letter code can be used as a short-hand for indicating type. For example, ESTJ indicates a person who is energized by the external world (E), whose preferred way of attending to incoming information is sensing (S), whose way of deciding is thinking (T), and who adopts a judging (J) style of living. The four-letter code also stands for a complex set of dynamic relationships. Every person likes some of the preferences better than others.

The middle two preferences (SN and TF) are called functions. For each type, one of these four functions takes the lead, or is most preferred. This function is called the dominantfunction as no person can be effective or consistent without one of the functions taking the lead.People use their dominant function most in their favourite environment.

That is, if you are more energized by the external world (Extraversion), then that is where you use your dominant function. If you are more energized by the internal world (Introversion), then you use your dominant inside. So, Extraverts use their dominant in the extraverted world, and introverts use their dominant in their introverted world.

The other function in the type code (the other of the middle two letters) is called the auxiliary function because it helps out and supports the dominant function. To continue the analogy, all organizations need at least two things to survive and be effective: Good information and someone to make decisions about that information. The same is true of a personality.

That is why if the dominant function is an attending function (S or N) then the auxiliaryor secondary function will be one of the deciding functions (T or F) and vice versa. Besides balancing attending and deciding, the auxiliary function helps to provide balance to the personality in another way, because the dominant and auxiliary functions are used in opposite worlds. In other words, if the dominant is extraverted, the auxiliary will be introverted.

If the dominant is introverted, the auxiliary will be extraverted. One way to think about this is to think of the leader of an organization. Some leaders focus primarily on the outer world; they concentrate on those people or things in the environment that might affect the organization. This kind of leader needs people to help maintain the internal functioning of the organization. Other leaders prefer to direct their energies primarily to the internal organization and delegate the external monitoring to others.

Even though they do not show up in the type code, everyone also uses the other two functions at times. The third or tertiary function is the one opposite the auxiliary on the preference scale.The fourth or inferior function is the one opposite the dominant on the preference scale. The inferior is most likely to show itself when people are under stress, pressure or ill,… and not acting like themselves.

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