"This INFJ girl, I want to meet INFP", "LEO ENFJ", "ENTJ gathering"... Recently, the use of four mysterious letters to refer to their own personality has become a new trend for young people on social platforms.
The MBTI personality test is a theoretical model of personality types jointly formulated by American writer Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Kathryn Cook Briggs, and is a large number of personality tests in the field of psychology. one of the tables.
However, when it became a social trend, the charging platform under the guise of free and the self-professed professional charging analysis, the personality test originally intended to "find yourself", is more like a game of "harvesting leeks".
Four letters to sum up yourself
MBTI Personality Test Becomes Social New Password
"Big data looks at 16 kinds of personalities and wealth luck" "I and Gu Ailing are both INFJs" "If you are an ISTP, then we are good friends"... Recently, many young people are keen to use four letters to summarize themselves.
These 16 personality types are derived from the MBTI personality test.
The MBTI personality test divides individual behavior differences into four dimensions, including energy sources, information acquisition methods, decision-making methods, and life attitudes.
Each dimension includes two directions, namely extroversion (E) - introversion (I), real feeling (S) - intuition (I), emotional (F) - thinking (T), judgment (J) )—Perceptual (P).
The different preference tendencies of the four dimensions are combined to form 16 personality types.
For a time, the four mysterious letters have become new labels for young people, and various personality analysis has also become a new topic on social platforms.
On Douban, there are 260,000 people discussing the characteristics of each personality in a group called "Personality Temperament Group"; videos on the topic of the MBTI personality test on Douyin have been viewed more than 600 million times; More than 20,000 notes are shared, including tests, personality emojis, exclusive personality outfits, makeup, and playlists.
Blogger Xiao Chen has recently gained a large number of fans by relying on various MBTI personality expression packs.
"An emoji package can simply and rudely express the characteristics and contrasts of a personality." Xiao Chen told reporters that in order to resonate with everyone, he would chat with friends of different personalities around him and interact with fans to get inspiration.
If you want to integrate into the topic of MBTI, you must first know your corresponding personality, so taking the test has become a must for young people to keep up with the trend. The MBTI personality test has also begun to flood on the web and various platforms, and test links and advertisements can be seen everywhere.
"Are you quiet or are you a friend?" "Which is more suitable to describe you, quiet or lively?" "When you are with friends, do you prefer to be a talker or a listener?" "Do you plan ahead or follow your heart when you go out? Where?" The reporter randomly clicked on a test platform, and in the standard version of the 65 questions, starting from the first question, it was an either-or multiple-choice question.
After about 10 minutes, the reporter got a four-letter result - ENFJ.
In order to find out the meaning of these four letters, the reporter spent another 9.9 yuan to buy an analysis report, which included the strengths and weaknesses of the personality, such as "you like communication and value harmony", "not suitable for jobs with strong competition and tense atmosphere" environment”, etc., are some generalized and universally applicable contents.
"Seeing that everyone was taking the test, I followed the trend." Ms. Ye told reporters that after completing the 93 test questions, she felt that the questions were very watery and asked straightforward questions, "Basically when taking the test You know what type of personality you are."
The "free" test is just a guise
If you want to see the result, you have to spend money to unlock it
"It's too pitiful! It's obviously free. After I finish the test questions, I have to pay to see the results." Ms. Tang talked about her experience of taking the MBTI test on the website, and clicked to enter the free test website. Pay 9.9 yuan to view the analysis.
The reporter found in the investigation that most MBTI test platforms attract people under the brand of "free", but the free test is only the test process of answering questions, but it is not free to obtain test results.
The reporter randomly clicked on a test platform marked "MBTI Personality Test Free Version". When preparing to view the results after completing 93 questions, what popped up was not an analysis report, but a payment QR code, which required "29.9 yuan to unlock personal depth". analysis report".
The platform payment page shows that more than 70,000 people have spent money to unlock the report.
Afterwards, the reporter checked the other two platforms that wrote free MBTI tests one after another. It also cost 9.9 yuan and 29.9 yuan to unlock the report, and it also showed that tens of thousands of people have paid to complete the MBTI test on this platform.
The reporter compared and checked the three platform link entrances, and found that although they are three different websites, they have exactly the same entrance interface, and even the number of paid testers displayed is not bad at all.
What is even more outrageous is that after the reporter clicked on the test page to complete the test, they found that the number of people who completed the test displayed on the website had not changed.
"The number of people displayed on this entry page is just a sticker, not real data at all. It just wants to show that the popularity is booming and induce users to pay." A person familiar with the matter said.
At the same time, the reporter noticed that there is a line of small characters under a certain test platform, which says that the copyright belongs to Wuhan Hongge Yibai E-Commerce Co., Ltd. Yunnan Branch.
According to the public information of the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, the company's registered business scope is very wide, including food sales, clothing, shoes and hats, daily necessities, second-hand car wholesale and sales, and business information consultation, etc., and there is no psychological consultation related. 's qualifications.
The reporter then inquired about the companies behind the five personality testing platforms and found that only one included psychological counseling services in its business scope, and the others were small companies with extremely extensive business operations.
4-Day Accelerated Training Certification
University psychology professor said "I have never heard of MBTI policymakers"
In addition to the test fee of 9.9 yuan and 29.9 yuan, the low-cost personality test to attract people, and then charge a lot of consulting fees, analysis fees, and even training certification fees, has also become a part of the current MBTI test chain.
On Dianping, there are many group-buying products tested by MBTI.
The reporter selected a consulting agency near Yonganli and purchased the "9.9 yuan Group Buying Professional Personality Assessment Scale (MBTI)". According to the description, a 30-minute in-store interview can be provided.
After the purchase, the staff immediately threw an online test link and asked the reporter to complete the online test independently, and will use the test results as the basis for consultation.
Afterwards, the reporter took the test report with only one page and went to the store according to the appointment time.
The consulting agency's office is located on the second floor of a building, which is small but delicately decorated.
But the strange thing is that when I arrived at the store, there was no consultant present, only one staff member received the reporter.
"The description on Dianping.com is not accurate. The service only includes an online test scale." The staff member introduced that if you want to continue to analyze the report, you need to make an appointment for a consultant again, and the cost is between 300 yuan and 500 yuan per 50 minutes. Wait.
At the same time, testing and training services are also available in the store.
On Douyin, Xiaohongshu and other platforms, there are also many active so-called "MBTI certified policy practitioners", which not only provide a personality test analysis service with a cost of about a few hundred yuan once, but also provide certification training services.
"People come to me for MBTI in-depth analysis almost every day, and the one-to-one analysis fee is 300 yuan." A teacher named Emily, who is an MBTI certified policymaker, introduced.
"Exploration on career transition of post-95s ENFP", "Four-year transition consultation for post-90s INTJ engineering girls in foreign companies", "Consultation for typical esfj girls in junior year"... In her circle of friends, you can see cases of different personalities coming to consult every day .
However, when the reporter asked the psychology professors of the two colleges and universities, they both said that they had "never heard of MBTI policymakers".
A staff member of a policymaker certification training institution told reporters that they only need to participate in 4 days of offline training and complete an exam with multiple-choice questions within a week, and they can get a certificate in one month.
"We plan to hold one in Beijing in July, the cost is about 30,000 yuan, and you can pass the class." According to him, reporters can analyze it as long as they get the MBTI policy certificate.
"At present, after graduation, our students in the market will charge 500 to 800 yuan for analysis fees, and some can reach thousands. The consultation fee for our institution's teachers is 5,000 yuan per hour."
interpret
A personality test is not a personality test
From a set of test questions, can you really summarize the complete outline of personality?
Zhang Xin, an associate professor at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University, gave different answers, "The conclusion of the personality test cannot draw a conclusion on personality."
Zhang Xin said that people will continue to grow themselves, and the personality is developmental, not static.
For example, scores on each dimension of personality change with age.
Personality tests are one of the ways to help people understand their true self, but don't blindly believe in the results, let alone "label" yourself based on the test results.
At the same time, when individuals conduct personality tests, they should try to select tools with high reliability and validity.
The so-called reliability refers to the stability and reliability of the measurement results, while the validity represents the accuracy and authenticity, and refers to the degree to which the measurement tools or means can accurately measure the things that need to be measured.
"The current popular MBTI personality test has good reliability, but not very good validity. The results of this type of personality test are not rigorous, and they are hardly used in the measurement with high scientific requirements." Zhang Xin suggested that different Characters have different types of lifestyles, learn to understand themselves and accept their own characteristics.
Intern reporter Xia Hua