Measuring the Jungian Personality Types of Hispanic High School Students

Abstract

Measures of normal variations in personality, called psychological type, are frequently used in education (e.g., to identify learning styles) and counseling (e.g., in career counseling). However, the most frequently-used measure of types, developed by Myers and Briggs, has been criticized on various psychometric grounds. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of an alternative measure, the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ), which employs normative rather than ipsative (forced-choice) items. Because previous studies of the measure have primarily used older and highly literate participants, the present study was conducted with 328 Hispanic high school students to determine whether the sound psychometric quality of PPSDQ scores was compromised by vocabulary or language issues. The results of reliability and factor analyses were generally favorable as regards PPSDQ score integrity.

Alternative Ways of Measuring Counselees' Jungian Psychological‐Type Preferences

“…This is clearly the biggest limitation affecting our results. However, Mittag's (1999) results with Hispanic high school students were not unlike those in the present study. For example, the factor structures in both studies were very similar.…”

“…These coefficients were slightly better than, but generally comparable to, related PPSDQ results reported by Kier et al (1998) for a similar sample of college students from two other universities. These coefficients were higher than those reported for a sample of Hispanic high school seniors (Mittag, 1999). Such differences might be expected because the PPSDQ was administered in English, and for many of the high school students, Spanish was declared as the primary language spoken in their homes.…”

“…The results here regarding the psychometric properties of PPSDQ scores were very encouraging, were consistent with related previous results for the same measure (cf. Arnau et al, 1999;Kier et al, 1998;Mittag, 1999;Thompson & Arnau, 1998), and were as good as or superior to results reported for the MBTI measure (Myers & McCaulley, 1985).…”

“…The PPSDQ items were revised and refined in a series of studies using various statistical analyses and samples (cf. Arnau, Thompson, & Rosen, 1999;Kier, Melancon, & Thompson, 1998;Mittag, 1999;Thompson & Melancon, 1996;Thompson & Stone, 1994).…”

Reliability, Structure, and Correlates of Learning and Study Strategies Inventory Scores

“…It has been suggested that Jungian-type differences appear in educational aptitude, application, interest, and achievement and that "type theory accounts for the different aspects of these characteristics" (Myers & McCaulley, 1985, p. 95). To overcome difficulties with the most commonly used measure of Jungian types (Vacha-Haase & Thompson, 2002), here the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ) was used to measure these preferences (Arnau, Thompson, & Rosen, 1999;Kier, Melancon, & Thompson, 1998;Melancon & Thompson, 1996;Mittag, 1999).…”