✦ LIBER ✦
Over-representation of Myers Briggs type indicator introversion in social phobia patients
✍ Scribed by David S. Janowsky; Shirley Morter; Manuel Tancer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
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✦ Synopsis
The purpose of this study is to profile the personalities of patients with social phobia. Sixteen patients with social phobia were compared with a normative population of 55,971, and with 24 hospitalized Major Depressive Disorder inpatients, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, a popular personality survey, divides individuals into eight categories: Extroverts versus Introverts, Sensors versus Intuitives, Thinkers versus Feelers, and Judgers versus Perceivers. Social phobia patients were significantly more often Introverts (93.7%) than were subjects in the normative population (46.2%). In addition, using continuous scores, the social phobia patients scored as significantly more introverted than did the patients with Major Depressive Disorder, who also scored as Introverted. Introversion is a major component of social phobia, and this observation may have both etiological and therapeutic significance. Depression and Anxiety
11:121-125, 2000.