Studies of Jungian typology: II. Representations of the personal world.

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Derivations from Jung's (1923) theory of psychological types were confirmed in 3 studies of qualitative personal documents. Ss were 67 18–55 yr old college and community adults chosen on the basis of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to constitute theoretically relevant samples. Study 1 predicted and found introverted thinking and extraverted feeling types to differ in qualities of their affective memories. Introverts and extraverts differed in interpersonal closeness vs distance of thematic content; thinking and feeling types differed in their emphasis on cognitive clarity vs vividness of feeling. Although some interactions of extraversion–introversion and thinking–feeling preferences were suggested, these were independent of sex. Study 2 predicted and found differences between sensing and intuitive types in the nature of personal constructs offered on a modified version of the Role Construct Repertory Test. In Study 3, sensing and intuitive types differed in the style of self-descriptions offered to an imagined foreign correspondent. The results indicate type differences in memory and social perception and question the assumption that S variables can be ignored in research on cognitive processes. Jungian theory is recommended as a framework capable of bridging nomothetic and idiographic modes of inquiry. (16 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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