Traits and Types
Traits and Typology approach
Foremost, the trait approach tends to explain personality for the perspective of psychological traits or characteristics. The attributes can get described as habitual patterns of emotion, behavior, and thought (Bornstein, 2019). Moreover, characters act the personality aspects that are relatively consistent over time and tend to differ between individuals. On the other hand, typology approaches look at personality from a different perspective. Foremost, in typology, it is believed that character gets classified into broad categories where types act as a cluster of the same traits. The standards tend to be comprehensive and never overlap or example; an individual can be either extrovert or introvert.
Big 5 personality
Personality can get explained or measured through five aspects of the big five personality theory. The big five personality traits include openness, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extroversion. Each tends to measure a unique character for human personality (IDRlabs, 2018). Thus, openness evaluates the extent to which a person is creative and imaginative. Agreeableness measures personal tendencies in comparison to social harmony.
Additionally, extraversion looks at how sociable energetic and outgoing a person is. Conscientiousness measures how careful, self-disciplined, organized, and deliberate a person is. Lastly, neuroticism looks at the tendency to experience negative emotions and measure their response to stress and negatively.
The Myers-Brings typology
The Myers-bring typology acts as a self-report inventory created to identify an individual’s personality strengths, type, and preferences. The theory gets adopted from Carl Gustav’s theory of 16 personality types (Psych2Go, 2019). However, Myer-Brings theory gives four choices: whether an individual deals with people and things or ideas and information (extroversion and introversion (E, I)). Additionally, it looks at facts and reality or possibilities and potential ((sensing(S) and intuition (I)). Furthermore, it deals with logic and truth or values and relationship ((Thinking (T) and feeling (F)) and lastly looks at a lifestyle that is well structured or one that moves with the flow ((judgment (J) and Perception (P)).
Similarities and differences
Both Big 5 personality and The Myers-Brings typology have some similarities and some differences. Foremost, the apparent similarity is the use of introversion and extroversion traits in the two. Another analogy comes in the judging trait from Myer-Brings and the consciences trait from the big five, which tend to relate to a tendency towards organization and order. However, there are also small differences like in Myer-Brings; it operates using polar traits where one is either one trait in the dyad or the other (Vaughn, 2017). In the big five, one works using a sliding scale between features where one can land between introverted and extroverted.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I find the big five theory to be more robust compared to the Myer-Brings since its traits tend to be broader, and they are among the strongest predictors of well-being for people. Additionally, the personality traits in big five also prove to have precise and accurate measurements for individuals traits.
References
Bornstein, R. F. (2019). The trait–type dialectic: Construct validity, clinical utility, and the diagnostic process—personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 10(3), 199.
IDRlabs, (16, December 2018), The Big Five Personality Traits and 30 Subtraits / Facets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_E0qtqc0QQ&feature=youtu.be
Psych2Go, (4, July 2019), Myers Briggs Personality Types Explained – Which one are you?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXcWZnQPUXw&feature=youtu.be
Vaughn, R. (2017). Myers-Briggs Personalities and Our Perceptions of Them.