Development and personal growthgroup -Apsychodynamic-analytical approach

Abstract

Short-term analytical group interventions could support students or trainees (in social professions field) in order to enhance their personal resources and abilities reflected by the manner of using their psychological typology. A lack of empirical evidence regarding the effect on psychological type dynamic is a source of speculations in this field. The current study investigates, from an analytical psychology perspective, the impact of a short-term analytical group intervention program on psychological typology and personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism). The results provided by analyzing a sample of 69 participants revealed significant transformations of psychological type dynamics that reflect enhancing the intra-personal and inter-personal processes. The impact of this short-term intervention program on personality traits fell short of reaching significant level.

Testing the bipolar assumption of Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory for Korean adults using classification and multidimensional scaling

“…Complementary to these previous inventories, Singer and Loomis developed a Singer–Loomis type development inventory, SL-TDI ( Singer, 1996 ), to measure these functions and Jung’s psychological types with a Likert scale-based construct. The reliability and validity of SL-TDI are tested by various scholars and some observed evidence in the spectrum of the types ( Loomis and Singer, 1980 ; Arnau et al, 2000 ; Capraro and Capraro, 2002 ; Davis and Mattoon, 2006 ; Park, 2013 ; Sato, 2017 ; Minulescu, 2019 ; Turcu and Minulescu, 2019 ). There was mixed evidence for these categorical approaches that the dimensional approach of types in a continuous spectrum with opposing ends was hypothesized and tested using taxometric analysis ( Arnau et al, 2003 ).…”

“…Numerous empirical studies investigated the relationship between personality and health outcomes ( Strickhouser et al, 2017 ). Some studies established that specific mental health is more related to certain personality types ( Janowsky et al, 2002 ; Brown, 2009 ; Minulescu, 2019 ; Lester, 2021 ). In this study, we employed Korean Symptom Check List-95 (KSCL-95) to further explore the relationship between personality and mental health by examining patterns of psychological types according to the severity of mental health via cluster analysis and intersubject correlation analysis.…”