RELIABILITY RANKING AND RATING SCALES OF MYER AND BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR (MBTI)

One of the personality models is Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This model has been developed in the personality instrument using force choice and has been administration by the simple format. The base of force choice is ranking format. It has weakness completed by rating format. The study aims to analyze the reliability of MBTI personality using ranking and rating format, and to present the characteristic of personality undergraduate student using two format. The study employed quantitative methods. The subject of the research is 134 undergraduate students of Yogyakarta State University. They come from three study programs, the educational of math, the educational of economic, and guidance and counseling. The data were collected by giving questionnaire. The reliability of each dimensions instrument was analyzed using alpha Cronbach. The all dimensions were analyzed using composite reliability. The personality characteristics subject was analyzed by descriptive statistic. The findings of this study show that two instrument were reliable. The reliability instruments were various in many dimensions. The lowest reliability was sensing type and the highest reliability was thinking and feeling in the ranking format, and the extrovert in the rating format. The lowest reliability was the sensing not only in the ranking but in the rating format as well. The all reliability instrument or composite reliability of ranking format was 0.74 and the rating format was 0.72, It showed that the reliability of forced-choice format was higher than rating format. The result of measurement personality characteristic of Yogyakarta undergraduate student is dominant extraversion in focus attention, dominant sensing in finding out about things, dominant feeling in making decision and dominant judging in orientation the other world. Consequently, Yogyakarta undergraduate students prefer to outer world, strive for harmony with others and friendship, and prefer to do something ordered and scheduled