A wide variety of people with differing personalities use texting to communicate every day. In the 1920’s Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers created the Myers-Briggs Personality Test to determine some of the differing traits that make up human personalities. Although the test cannot always predict how a person will act, it does provide insight into a person’s behavior.
The test itself is based loosely on Carl Gustav Jung, the father of analytical psychology’s theory of personality types. The exam uses four different categories for people and sixteen different personality types. In this test people are determined to be either introverts, meaning they are shy and tend to keep to themselves, or extroverts, meaning …show more content…
Introverts are known to blush frequently, be self-conscious, prefer to work alone, turn their attention inward, and feel hurt readily. Introverts are also known to be more reserved and less likely to express their emotions to the outside world. Meanwhile, extroverts are known to have an easy time expressing emotions, are more spontaneous, and more comfortable in social situations. Previous research has shown that introverts and extroverts approach situations differently. For example a study by Nussbaum (2002) found that extroverts tend to use conflict discourse more than introverts. Although this study shows us how introverts and extroverts interact with other people, there are not many studies that show how introverts and extroverts interact with communication technology such as …show more content…
Extroverts will text more often than introverts because extroverts thrive off of communication with others.
2. Introverts will text less often than extroverts because introverts don’t thrive off of communication with others.
3. Introverts will use texting only for basic communication and not as a form of fun or distraction.
4. Extroverts will use texting as a form of fun or distraction.
We are doing this research in order to find out more about the way that different personality types utilize cell phones. This study will give us insight not only into how much introverts and extroverts differ in the amount of their texting, but but also how they differ in their purposes for texting, including having fun and distracting themselves. Fun is defined as enjoyment, amusement, or lighthearted pleasure. Distraction can be defined as a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something