Jungian Typology of Prospective Psychodramatists: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Analysis of Applicants for Psychodrama Training
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores of 10 selected and 27 nonselected applicants to a year-long psychodrama training program were compared. As expected, self-selection was readily apparent in the applicants as 84% were intuitive rather than sensing types. 37 applicants as a group were more likely to be extraverted than introverted but equal numbers of extraverts and introverts were accepted to the program. As compared to Jacoby's scale of innovative versus conservative types, all 10 selected applicants were innovative. That spontaneity and creativity are regarded as essential to psychodrama is suggested by both the preponderance of innovative types among the applicants and the systematic exclusion of all the conservative types. The most prevalent type among trainees is extraverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving. Further studies should be conducted to ascertain the predominant types of professional psychodramatists.