title: Myers Briggs Type indicator personality profiles in unipolar depressed patients.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. David_Janowsky@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Janowsky
authors.forename: Elliot
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morter
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Howe
mesh_terms: 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