Organizational researchers continually strive to establish models and patterns to predict the behavior of employees within the organizational context. However, much of this research relating to personality types has been conducted in silos. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to explore the relationships among Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, A/B Personality Types, and Locus of Control. Data were ...

El pasado mes de marzo de 2009 se aprobó la creación del Nodo Cochrane de Cuidados de Enfermerı́a, coordinado por el Instituto Joanna Briggs (IJB) que, posteriormente, pasó a formar parte de la Colaboración Cochrane como un Área de Trabajo en Cuidados de Enfermerı́a. Su principal función es apoyar la realización de revisiones sistemáticas de interés para los Cuidados de Enfermerı́a en la Colaborac...

The type dynamics model of psychological type was examined and criticized from several perspectives. Problem areas include the following: Type dynamics has persistent logical problems and is fundamentally based on a series of category mistakes; it provides, at best, a limited and incomplete account of type-related phenomena; epistemologically, type dynamics is not based on efficacy or the prepo...

This study examined the overlap and correlations among two well-known personality measures (NEOPI–R; Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI) and two widely used intelligence tests (the Graduate Management Assessment (GMA), Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA)). The GMA measures both fluid intelligence (Gf) and crystallized intelligence (Gc), whereas WGCTA mainly assess Gc. A total of ov...

In recent years, language learning research has been paying more attention to the factors that may  affect  the  choice  by  language  learners  of  language  learning  strategies  in  general  and writing strategies in particular to enhance their own learning. Given the socio-cognitive nature of  the  act  of  writing,  as  Roca  de  Larios  et  al.  (2002)  note,  both  writer-internal  and  ...

This paper explores the use of personality type instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in a cross-cultural analysis of UK and Taiwanese Design students. Personality typing is now widely used in the western business community for Human Resources, training, counseling and career planning, however very little information exists with regards to the Asian personality type. The results ...

A prototype model is presented that demonstrates the idea of modulating agent behavior using human personality type. The psychological theory of personality type known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is applied here. The MBTI theory defines four dichotomies to explain how individual humans differ in the ways that they perceive their environment, interact with others, and make decision...