title: Relationship of self-management to personality types and indices.
abstract: This study addressed the relationship between self-management (as measured by the Lifestyle Approaches Inventory, Williams, Moore, Pettibone, & Thomas, 1992) and personality types and indexes (as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers & McCaulley, 1985) in a sample of 347 university students. Correlational analyses indicated that the self-management factor most consistently linked to the Myers-Briggs indices was Organization of Physical Space. The Myers-Briggs index most consistently correlated with the self-management factors was Judgment-Perception. Overall, male and female subjects showed similar patterns of relationships between the self-management and personality indices. When the self-management scores were compared for the various Myers-Briggs types, the analysis indicated that types having a J (planful and organized) or S (precise and practical) in the typology tended to score higher than those having a P (spontaneous and flexible) or N (imaginative and insightful).
authors.affiliation: University of Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Verble
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Layne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012649:Self Concept; D012928:Social Desirability