The next generation of type instrument, the Majors Personality Type Inventory™ (MajorsPTI™), is a shorter, less expensive and accurate alternative to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument (MBTI® instrument). This innovative instrument builds on the 50 years of science behind psychological type and brings it up to date with the new technology of type. By using newer methods of asking and weighting the questions (only 52), the MajorsPTI™ provides slightly more accurate results than other psychological type instruments.
Your clients will appreciate taking the assessment in just about 10 minutes. The benefits to you include:
- Significantly less expensive than the MBTI® instrument
- Easy on-line administration at the Breckenridge Institute
- Routing of reports directly to you for distribution to your client
- Availability of up to four different reports
Dr. Mark S. Majors is a counseling psychologist with extensive psychometric experience that includes data analysis on the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory the MBTI® Form M, as well as the development of the IRT scoring. He was coauthor for the new MBTI® Form Q Manual. Mark is also the developer of the Majors Occupational Environment Measure™ (MajorsOEM™) and codeveloper of the Interstrength® X-Styles Assessment. In addition to being a counselor and test developer, Mark is president of a small private college. The college specializes in training pastoral counselors with an emphasis on the use of personality assessment for conflict resolution through the acceptance of differences and personal growth.
Advanced Scoring System
The MajorsPTI™ does not use a forced choice format for item responses. Instead, the MajorsPTI™ uses levels of similarity to provide clarity of results. By using graduated response scales (somewhat like me, very like me), not only do you receive information about a choice decision (direction), you also have knowledge of the level of similarity between the person and the response (intensity). This new form of scoring is called Differential Intensity Weighting (DIW). The addition of levels in the response format (and the corresponding DIW scoring) of the MajorsPTI™ adds new information that improves the precision of identifying the individual’s natural preference.
In addition to the unique scoring method, the MajorsPTI™ is introducing the Type Precision Module—a clarification step, when necessary, to ensure the accuracy of the instrument and to further help your clients get to best-fit-type. If a client’s preferences are still unclear as reported by the instrument, a second “also read” type will be created for the client to explore.
MULTIREPORT OPTION
- MajorsPTI™ report by Mark Majors focuses on the dichotomies of type.
- PTI-AR option by Linda Berens produces 4 reports as seen below:
Type Preferences—6 pages
This fundamental six-page report includes sample characteristics of the type preferences as well as the functional pairs. Sixteen brief descriptions are organized within the type table. References for further reading are included.
Cognitive Processes—7 pages
For advanced type users introducing their clients to the eight function/process model, this seven-page report includes snapshots of the eight Jungian functions/processes, as well as a chart showing the pattern of processes for all 16 types. Sixteen brief descriptions are organized within the type table. References for further reading are included.
Temperament Theory—6 pages
For those professionals taking their clients to the temperament level, this six-page report includes snapshots of the four Temperament patterns (Improviser™, Stabilizer™, Theorist™ and Catalyst™). Sixteen brief descriptions are organized within the Temperament Matrix™. References for further reading are included.
Interaction Styles—6 pages
This groundbreaking new theory is easy to teach and easy to understand. The six-page report includes snapshots of the four Interaction Styles patterns (In-Charge™, Chart-the-Course™, Get-Things-Going™ and Behind-the-Scenes™). Sixteen brief descriptions are organized within the Interaction Styles Matrix™. References for further reading are included.
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