Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Continuous Scales of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: An Analysis Based on Twins Reared Apart

Journal of Personality

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Bouchard Jr , Thomas J ^a   Hur, Yoon Mi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING RELATION; TIME; TWINS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SIBLING RELATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TWINS;

EID: 0346785702     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Akaike, H. (1987). Factor analysis and AIC. Psychometrics, 52, 317-332.
2. Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (1994). Genes, environment, and personality. Science, 264, 1700-1701.
3. Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (1997). The genetics of personality. In K. Blum & E. P. Noble (Eds.), Handbook of psychiatric genetics (pp. 273-296). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
4. Bouchard, T. J., Jr., Lykken, D. T., McGue, M., Segal, N. L., & Tellegen, A. (1990). Sources of human psychological differences: The Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Science, 250, 223-228.
5. Bouchard, T. J., Jr., & McGue, M. (1990). Genetic and environmental influences on adult personality: An analysis of adopted twins reared apart. Journal of Personality, 58, 263-292.
6. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). NEO PI-R, professional manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
7. Eaves, L. J., Eysenck, H. J., & Martin, N. G. (1989). Genes, culture, and personality: An empirical approach. New York: Academic Press.
8. Furnham, A. (1992). Personality at work: The role of individual differences in the work place. London: Routledge.
9. Furnham, A. (1996). The big five versus the big four: The relationship between the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and NEO-PI five factor model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 21, 303-307.
10. Furnham, A., & Stringfield, P. (1993). Personality and work performance: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator correlates of managerial performance in two cultures. Personality and Individual Differences, 14, 145-153.
11. Gangestad, S., & Snyder, M. (1985). "To carve nature at its joints": On the existence of discrete classes in personality. Psychological Review, 92, 317-349.
12. Goldberg, L. R. (1993). The structure of phenotypic personality traits. American Psychologist, 48, 26-34.
13. Harris, J. R. (1995). Where is the child's environment? A group socialization theory of development. Psychological Review, 102, 458-489.
14. Harvey, R. J., & Murry, W. D. (1994). Scoring the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Empirical comparison of preference score versus latent-trait methods. Journal of Personality Assessment, 62, 116-129.
15. Jang, K. L., Livesley, W. J., & Vernon, P. A. (1996). Heritability of the big five personality dimensions and their facets: A twin study. Journal of Personality, 64, 577-591.
16. Loehlin, J. C. (1992). Genes and environment in personality development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
17. Lykken, D. T. (1978). The diagnosis of zygosity in twins. Behavior Genetics, 8, 437-473.
18. Lykken, D. T., Geisser, S., & Tellegen, A. (1978). Heritability estimates from twins studies: The efficiency of the MZA design. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota.
19. Lykken, D. T, McGue, M., Tellegen, A., & Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (1992). Emergenesis: Genetic traits that may not run in families. American Psychologist, 47, 1565-1577.
20. Lykken, D. T., & Tellegen, A. (1993). Is human mating adventitious or the result of lawful choice? A twin study of mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 56-68.
21. McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (1989). Reinterpreting the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator from the perspective of the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Personality, 57, 17-40.
22. McGue, M., & Bouchard, T. J., Jr. (1984). Adjustment of twin data for the effects of age and sex. Behavior Genetics, 14, 325-343.
23. Myers, I. B., & McCaulley, M. H. (1985). Manual: A guide to the development and use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
24. Neale, M. C. (1995). Mx: Statistical modeling. Richmond, VA: Department of Human Genetics, Box 3 MCV.
25. Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & McClearn, G. E. (1990). Behavioral genetics: A primer (3rd ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman.
26. Saunders, D. (1987). Manual: Type Differentiation Indicator: A scoring system for Form J of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Research ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
27. Scarr, S. (1997). Behavior genetics and socialization theories of intelligence: Truce and reconciliation. In R. J. Sternberg & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.), Intelligence: Heredity and environment (pp. 3-41). New York: Cambridge University Press.
28. Vandenberg, S. G. (1967). Hereditary factors in normal personality traits (as measured by inventories). In J. Wortis (Ed.), Recent advances in biological psychiatry, 9, 65-104. New York: Plenum Press.
29. Waller, N. G., Bouchard, T. J., Jr., Lykken, D. T., Tellegen, A., & Blacker, D. M. (1993). Creativity, heritability, familiarity: Which word does not belong? Psychological Inquiry, 4, 235-237.
30. Waller, N. G., & Meehl, P. E. (in press). Multivariate taxometric procedures: Distinguishing types from continua. Beverley Hills, CA: Sage.
31. Waller, N. G., & Putman, F. W. (1996). Types of dissociation and dissociative types: A taxometric analysis of dissociative experiences. Psychological Methods, 1, 300-321.