TITLE:
MBTI and Aberrant Personality Traits: Dark-Side Trait Correlates of the Myers Briggs Type Inventory
AUTHORS:
Adrian Furnham
KEYWORDS:
Aberrant Personality, Dark-Side Traits, MBTI, Thinking-Feeling
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.13 No.5,
May
31,
2022
ABSTRACT: This was a semi-replicative study on the relationship between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs & Myers, 1987) (MBTI) and the aberrant (dark-side) personality traits. Over 8000 British adults completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs & Myers, 1987) and the NEO-PI-R which allows for scoring of the Aberrant Traits/Personality Disorders (PDs) (De Fruyt et al., 2009). Correlations and regressions indicated that the PDs were weakly related to the SN dimension but strongly related to the TF dimension. Most aberrant traits were associated with the Feeling preference. The results are compared to other studies using different measures of the dark-side variables. Implications and limitations are discussed.