Validity Evidence for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a Measure of Hemisphere Dominance: Another View

Abstract

Shiflett reported results to support the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (M-BTI) scales as surrogates for the assessment of brain dominance. The M-BTI scales were compared to the Left and Right Dominance Scales of the Human Information Processing Survey (HIP-S). The current research employing the same instruments with 554 college students, both confirmed Shiflett's findings and yielded results contrary to those of the Shiflett study. Specifically the association between M-BTI Intuition and both HIP-S Right and Left scales was in the opposite direction, with more intuitive types being more Right and less Left dominant in the current study. Shiflett also reported a reverse finding to those obtained with regard to the M-BTI Perception scale. In the current study, perceptive types were found to be more Right and less Left dominant. Finally, Shiflett reported that sex moderated the relationships among many of the HIP-S and M-BTI variables. The current study only found one significant difference between males and females among the correlations for these variables.