Myers Briggs Type indicator personality profiles in unipolar depressed patients.
OBJECTIVE
The current study was designed to compare the distribution of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types in patients with Unipolar Depression compared to normative data.


METHODS
The MBTI divides individuals into four dichotomous types: Extroverted and Introverted, Sensing and Intuitive, Thinking and Feeling, and Judging and Perceiving. This yields eight single-factor and sixteen four-factor types. One-hundred-thirty Unipolar Depressed patients were administered the MBTI-Form F.


RESULTS
Unipolar Depressed patients were significantly more often Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving single-factor types respectively, and Introverted-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving, and Introverted-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceiving four-factor types. The male Introverted-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving four-factor type was the most dramatically over-represented.


CONCLUSIONS
The MBTI effectively discriminates a patient group with Unipolar Depression from a normative population.
Janowsky
David S
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School of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. David_Janowsky@med.unc.edu
Hong
Elliot
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Morter
Shirley
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Howe
Laura
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017678:Sex Distribution