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Type and Theory Research
Carolyn Biediger Barnes

Applications

Research is essential to the viability of a theory. As is true in all of nature, that which does not continue to grow begins to die. We need continuing type research in two directions:

Applied--How can we apply Psychological Type effectively?
Theoretical--How can we enlarge and improve the theory?

Resources

Print Materials

Journal of Psychological Type is the research journal of the Association for Psychological Type. It has published over 330 studies over nineteen years on a variety of subjects relating to Personality Type. Available in many libraries, it is included in a membership in APT.

The Bulletin of Psychological Type, published eight times a year, contains numerous articles, many written by Interest Area Coordinators in relating to the following applications of Personality Type: careers and occupations, counseling and psychotherapy, education, management and organizational development, theory and research, religious and spiritual issues, and multicultural and international issues. It also contains information on upcoming conferences, and reviews of new books and materials about Type. The Bulletin is another benefit of APT membership.

The CAPT Bibliography is the most comprehensive compendium of type research. It contains over 6,400 entries, including dissertations, theses, journal articles, and conference presentations. It is available on IBM compatible equipment.

The Isabel Briggs Myers Memorial Library is maintained by CAPT and contains many of the items in bibliography. It is open to researchers during normal business hours.

Selection ration type table program: The SRTT program on diskette is used for comparing MBTI® type tables with each other. It was specifically designed to provide a statistically proper, yet simple tool to consuct tyhpe research. The program is menu driven and interactiave, requesting facts one at a time (for example, how many ISTJs?). Comupted tables can be read on the screen or routed to a printable file. Availabie for IBM or Macintosh.

Web Sites Related to Psychological Type

CAPT is a research and educational organization sustaining the work of Isabel Briggs Myers. Provides training programs, qualifying programs, research scoring of the MBTI®, research support services, and a wide range of books and publications about Psychological Type. They also provide consultation for people working on theses and doctoral dissertations which includes literature review, and assistance in design and data interpretation. 800-777-CAPT http://www.capt.org/

Articles Available on Internet

This is the website of Steve Myers of Team Technology in the UK. He has an ongoing research project on a personality questionnaire, The Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator and a number of interesting articles on Personality Type. http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/

Type Languages, Dialects, Styles and the Extraverted Function: Is there a Relationship? Henry L. Thompson, Ph.D. http://www.hpsys.com/resrch~1.htm

Tom Carskadon, editor of the Journal of Psychological Type since 1977 has promised to add his articles to his personal website soon. http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/Psychology/carskadon.html

Bio

Carolyn Biediger Barnes (ENTP) is the chairman of the Psychology Department at Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, a position she has held for 28 years. This probably represents a World Indoor Record of job stability for an ENTP. She is currently the Psychological Research & Theory Interest Area Consultant for the Association of Psychological Type and will be chairing the Research and Theory Symposium for APT this summer in Scottsdale, Arizona on July 15, 1999. She started learning about Type twelve years ago and teaches it to her students in a three week unit offered every semester and conducts type research. She is almost through rearing three children, who serve as Continuing Education in Type Development.

Email: cbarnes@swtjc.cc.tx.us