Paper on MBTI and favoured communication modes

[dracodraconis]

Population: university students in Singapore ages 17 to 25
600 questionnaires (60% personally administered, 40% via email
75% response rate

Source Goby, "Personality and Online/Offline Choices: MBTI Profiles and Favored Communication Modes in a Singapore Study", CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol.9, No.1, 2006


Context key:
Widening Social Circle = ways to meet new people and interact socially
Looking for casual work = interviews and sending resumes
Positive interaction with friends = sharing good news, displays of consensus, etc.
Negative interaction with friends = sharing bad news, arguing, etc.

Correlation p=0.0074 (significant)

Interaction context	Extravert		Introvert
	Online	offline	Online	offline
Widening Social Circle	10.6%	89.4%	22.6%	77.4%
Looking for casual work	63.6%	36.4%	78.6%	21.4%
Positive interaction with friends	8.9%	90.1%	17.9%	82.1%
Negative interaction with friends	1.5%	98.5%	11.9%	88.1%

Correlation p=0.5718 (not significant)

Interaction context	Sensing		iNtuition
	Online	offline	Online	offline
Widening Social Circle	13.4%	86.6%	13.3%	86.7%
Looking for casual work	74.4%	25.6%	68.4%	31.6%
Positive interaction with friends	13.3%	86.7%	15.0%	85.0%
Negative interaction with friends	8.9%	91.1%	5.0%	95.0%

Correlation p=0.0259 (significant)

Interaction context	Thinking		Feeling
	Online	offline	Online	offline
Widening Social Circle	5.3%	94.7%	21.6%	78.4%
Looking for casual work	68.4%	31.6%	75.7%	24.3%
Positive interaction with friends	11.8%	88.2%	16.3%	83.7%
Negative interaction with friends	5.2%	94.8%	9.5%	90.5%

Correlation p=0.0347 (significant)

Interaction context	Judging		Perceiving
	Online	offline	Online	offline
Widening Social Circle	17.6%	82.4%	7.7%	92.3%
Looking for casual work	75.3%	24.7%	67.7%	32.3%
Positive interaction with friends	17.6%	82.4%	9.2%	90.8%
Negative interaction with friends	9.4%	90.6%	4.6%	95.4%

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Are these numbers for which they prefer?

This is very cool... something to post on the mbti communities maybe.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

Yes, I forgot to indicate that the numbers indicate the percent that preferred the particular mode within the given context.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

The part that surprised me was the T vs F results. I thought it would go the other way.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

Yes, the significantly larger number of Feelers who expressed a preference for online interaction is a bit puzzling.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Would you post this to ntpersonality?

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

I too was suprised by that