TITLE:
The Dark Side of the MBTI: Psychological Type and Interpersonal Derailers
AUTHORS:
Adrian Furnham, John Crump
KEYWORDS:
MBTI; Psychological Type; Derailers; Personality Disorders
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.2,
February
27,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Over 4000 British adults completed the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) (Hogan
& Hogan, 1997) which measures eleven potential derailment behaviours (“dark
side” traits) based on the personality disorders and the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (Briggs & Myers, 1987) a famous measure of “normal” personality
functioning. In all, five of the eleven “dark side” traits were correlated with
the Extraversion-Introversion dimensions, none with Sensing-Intuition, seven
with Thinking-Feeling and four with the Judging-Perceiving scale. Correlations
were modest. Regressions with the four MBTI scales as criterion variables
showed nine of the HDS factors were related to the T-F scale and accounted for
12% of the variance. Thinking types tended to be Sceptical, Reserved and
Diligent. Overall correlations were low suggesting the MBTI assesses some
aspects of dark side traits.