How MBTI and Big Five differ, and why psychology uses Big Five
MBTI and Big Five measure nearly the same four personality dimensions, but MBTI splits people into 16 discrete groups while Big Five keeps continuous scores.
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Do MBTI and Big Five measure the same thing?
For the most part yes, but not entirely. The four MBTI scales correlate strongly with four of the five Big Five factors, while MBTI has no corresponding scale for the emotional instability dimension. The biggest difference lies in how they divide things up: MBTI cuts each dimension into two poles and then combines them into 16 groups, whereas Big Five keeps continuous scores on each factor and does not assign a type label to each person.
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