Relation between Myers Briggs Psychological Types and Stress among University Students

It was hypothesized that there is no significant relation between the Myers Briggs psychological types and stress among university students. Hence, correlation design was made to see the relationship of Myers Briggs psychological types: Extrovert-introvert, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, judging-perceiving and stress on 120 university students in the age range of 20-26 years. The sample consisted of randomly selected 60 male and 60 female university students of arts, science, commerce and education faculties. Out of the sample of 120, 80 were under graduate or graduate and 40 were post graduates. Psychological types were measured by Myers Briggs Type Indicator Scale by Myers and Briggs. Stress was measured by ICMR Psychosocial Stressor Questionnaire by Srivastav. Coefficient of correlation for psychological types (extrovert-introvert, sensing-intuition, thinkingfeeling, and judging-perceiving) and stress scores indicated no significant relationship. Multiple regression analysis shows that highest contribution was of thinking psychological type (b value is 1.053) in the determination of stress and second highest contribution was of judging psychological type (b value is −0.925) in the determination of stress. Introvert and intuition psychological type has negligible contribution in the determination of stress.