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I have enclosed the results of a "JUNG TYPOLOGY" personality test as background information (see the attachment).
Can you guide me in the right direction to answer the question below? One scholarly source is required on a brief description on the history of personality questionnaires.
I am thinking of Cattell or Costa & McCrae Five Factor Theory?

How does the "Jung Typology" personality test affect career and effectiveness in a job?

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I'm a bit confused as to what's happening here. I think you mean that I should help you figure which sorts of test results make sense with a specific job. (Is that right?)

What I will do is deal with the Jung test with respect to the nature of job performance (etc).

Jung's basic view is that these types are natural, and are all necessary for both survival and human flourishing at the communal level. That's the fundamental notion. Jung is about how a personality can analyze information and life events.

We have two very general types: the thinking and the feeling. Of course, there are many sub-types. The feeling type is about values; the thinking type is about analysis. The one can see the big picture, the other, the important details and how they relate to each other. Society needs both.

Another way to look at it is that the 'feeling' type loves to think in holistic terms; they think organically, bringing many things together into unity. The Thinking/analytical type takes things apart and sees an object or event at the simplest set of levels.

Here is a good article from 'Psychology Today':
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201205/essential-secrets-psychotherapy-jungs-typology-eudaemonology-and-the-elusive-

The nature of the introvert: the turn towards the internal world of your own ideas and thoughts.
The nature of the extrovert: meaning comes from the outside world and its interactions.
The balance between the two is needed for mental health. Each, taken to extremes, can lead to pathology (social fears for the introvert and risky, irrational thrill seeking for the extrovert).

Here's a resource concerning Jung relative to the workplace (and more to the point you're interested ...

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