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The Relationship Between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Among Adult Churchgoers

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A sample of 377 adult churchgoers completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Form G) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The data demonstrate that the measures of introversion-extraversion proposed by the two instruments are highly correlated, that there is a moderate correlation between the EPQ psychoticism scale and the MBTI measures of judging and perceiving, and that the MBTI scales map in quite a complex way onto the three-dimensional model of personality proposed by the EPQ.

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  1. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    Leslie J. Francis (Professor of Practical Theology at)

  2. St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, UK

    Susan H. Jones (Director of Pastoral Studies at)

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Francis, L.J., Jones, S.H. The Relationship Between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Among Adult Churchgoers. Pastoral Psychology 48, 377–386 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022036504232

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