RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-MANAGEMENT TO PERSONALITY-TYPES AND INDEXES

This study addressed the relationship between self-management (as meas ured by the Lifestyle Approaches Inventory, Williams, Moore, Pettibone , and Thomas, 1992) and personality types and indexes (as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers and McCaulley, 1985) in a sampl e of 347 university students. Correlational analyses indicated that th e self-management factor most consistently linked to the Myers-Briggs indices was Organization of Physical Space. The Myers-Briggs index mos t consistently correlated with the self-management factors was Judgmen t-Perception. Overall, male and female subjects showed similar pattern s of relationships between the self-management and personality indices . When the self-management scores were compared for the various Myers- Briggs types, the analysis indicated that types having a J (planful an d organized) or S (precise and practical) in the typology tended to sc ore higher than those having a P (spontaneous and flexible) or N (imag inative and insightful).