Open AccessRelationship Between Primary Guardians Marital Status and MBTI Results
Author(s) -
Mercedes Lyn Stanek,
Patricia Talarczyk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of student research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2167-1907
DOI - 10.47611/jsrhs.v8i2.744
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , marital status , guardian , personality type , clinical psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , population , paleontology , political science , law , biology , environmental health
The goal of this research was to explore the potential relationship between a primary guardian’s marital status and the child resulting from that relationship’s MBTI personality type. Given that personality types are often linked to environmental factors, these two factor appeared to be linked psychologically. The relationship between the five main marital statuses, married, divorced, separated, widowed, and single mother/father, and the results of MBTI tests was explored in this study. To explore the possible relationship, a mixed method approach was employed to high school students ranging from grades nine to twelve. The participants were asked to participate in an MBTI personality test which was followed by a survey asking questions about the participant’s primary guardians. The marital status was found to have no impact on the personality types of the participants; all groups were found to tend to be more introverted than extroverted.