Some correlates of the Jungian typology: personal style variables

C. G. Jung’s Typology (21) is a richly described and, to the writer, intuitively reasonable method of categorizing individuals. One of its type-pairs, extraversion-introversion, has become a controversial, but apparently lasting, concept in the psychological literature. (The words H extraversion 11 and "introversion" have also been taken into popular culture, to denote sociophilia and sociophobia, a meaning more circumscribed than that originally intended by Jung.) The other type-pairs, thinking-feeling and sensation-intuition, have received minimal research attention despite offering, in the writer’s view, as much potential for research as extraversion-introversion. Sufficient research (some of which is reported briefly at the end of this chapter) exists to provide evidence of the potential utility of extraversion-introversion as descriptive categories. A -small body of research by Myers (26) and by MacKinnon (In Myers, 26) suggests that this potential utility extends to the Typology as a whole. It was felt that the potential utility of the Typology has become actual to the extent that a variety of personality characteristics can be shown to be both theoretically and empirically related to it. The aim of this research was to seek further relations of this sort.This thesis was digitized as part of a project begun in 2014 to increase the number of Duke psychology theses available online. The digitization project was spearheaded by Ciara Healy