Psychological Exploration: Understanding MBTI in Education
This article delves into the use of MBTI in a psychological education setting at Zhengzhou No. 20 Middle School, discussing its role as a social tool and emphasizing the importance of avoiding labels while using it to understand oneself and others.
Title: Psychological Classroom | Role Exploration: My MBTI - A Series of Psychological Education Courses at Zhengzhou No. 20 Middle School
In students' daily interactions, there is always a sentence like this: 'Are you an I person or an E person?' The terms I person and E person come from the MBTI personality type test, which has clearly become a popular new social tool and password among students. In today's psychology class, the teacher will lead students to explore personality and understand MBTI. At the same time, students are guided to correctly view MBTI as a social tool and avoid labeling themselves.
At the beginning of the class, the teacher first leads students to learn about the relevant concepts of personality and distinguish personality from temperament and character. Personality is an individual's personalized behavior, emotion, and thinking response pattern. It covers an individual's response to the situation they are in. Personality is malleable and is the product of the interaction between innate heredity and acquired environmental stimuli. It changes with physiological maturity and environmental changes. In simple terms, if everyone had a chip that could represent themselves, it would definitely be personality.
Next, the psychology teacher asks students to watch a short video. During the viewing process, students are asked to think about what they would do if they were in the same situation. Why would they make such a choice? Some students say, 'This is exactly the same as me. It's simply the inner monologue of a socially anxious person.' Others say, 'If it were me, I would directly rush in and get to know everyone.' These two students are typical representatives of I people (introverted tendency) and E people (extroverted tendency).
The psychology teacher introduces Myers' personality theory to help students understand what MBTI is. MBTI, fully known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, is a personality type theory model jointly developed by the American writer Myers and her mother. Myers' personality theory model has four types, and each type has two different directions. After permutation and combination, 16 different personality types are obtained. Due to time constraints in class, the teacher asks students to take a simplified version of the test to obtain their own personality types.
Different personality types have unique personality characteristics and behavioral preferences. For example, the famous poet Li Bai is most likely an ENFP, that is, enthusiastic, creative, sociable, and likes to be free. Obtaining one's own personality type is very simple. But as a tool, how we should use and view it is crucial. On the one hand, through MBTI, we can better understand ourselves and others. We can also develop our strengths and avoid our weaknesses and choose the path that is more suitable for us. On the other hand, MBTI is only a tool, not the truth. Students should also avoid using this tool to label themselves and others and maintain a rational and objective attitude.
Teacher Luo Xiang said, 'We must maintain an open attitude towards the mysterious fate.' Only by continuously improving scientific literacy and discrimination ability, actively developing our own uniqueness, and looking at ourselves from a dynamic perspective can we have a confident and unconfused life direction!
Author: Zhang Fanglin Responsible Editor: Xu Yue Reviewer: Bai Huijun