1. Amity Business School
Amity School of Business BBA, SEMESTER II INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND NATION Divya Goel Module 1

2. Module I: Individual differences & Personality
Personality: Definition& Relevance
Importance of nature & nurture in Personality Development
Importance and Recognition of Individual differences in Personality
Accepting and Managing Individual differences
Intuition, Judgment, Perception & Sensation (MBTI)
BIG5 Factors

3. Personality Definitions
According to Allport “ Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment.”

4. Determinants of Personality
NATURE(Heredity)
NURTURE(Environment)

5. Introduction to MBTI (Myer’s-Briggs Type Indicator)
MBTI is created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs. Myers concluded there were four primary ways people differed from one another i.e. 2 Kinds of Mental Processes, 2 Kinds of Mental Orientations.

6. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Type of Social
Interaction
Extrovert (E)
Introvert (I)
Preference for
Gathering Data
Sensing (S)
Intuitive (N)
Preference for
Decision Making
Feeling (F)
Thinking (T)
Style of
Decision Making
Perceptive (P)
Judgmental (J)

7. 16 personality types ESTJ ISFJ ESFJ ISTP ESTP ESFP ISFP ENTJ INTJ ENTP
The permutations of these four preference dichotomies result in the 16 personality types that form the basis of Myers' model and the MBTI inventory.
ESTJ
ISFJ
ESFJ
ISTP
ESTP
ESFP
ISFP
ENTJ
INTJ
ENTP
INTP
ENFJ
INFJ
ENFP
INFP
ISTJ

8. Openness to Experience
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Extraversion
The Big Five Personality Model
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Emotional Stability
Openness to Experience