Attitudes determine how and individual uses his / her four functions. The two attitudes developed by Jung are those of extraversion and introversion. These two attitudes refer to the way in which an individual relates to his/ her environment. Extraverts relate to their environment outwardly, their focus is on people and objects in the outside world. An extrovert gains psychological energy from the outside world. Extraverts interact continuously with the environment, are easily approached by others, talk through situations in order to think, and are energized by numbers of people . Approximately 75% of the U.S. population prefer the attitude of extraversion and 25% of the population prefer introversion . Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs, the developers of the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI), devised the second set of attitudes judging and perceiving. The attitudes of judging and perceiving have a dual purpose their primary purpose as stated by Myers is to “describe unidentifiable attitudes and behaviors to the outside world ”. An individual who prefers the judging attitude seeks order, structure and closure in their environment. An individual who prefers the attitude of perceiving seeks a flexible, spontaneous and open-ended environment. Approximately 50% of the U.S. population prefer the attitude of judging and the other 50% prefer the attitude of perceiving. The second purpose of the judging and perceiving attitudes is used in conjunction with the attitudes of extraversion and introversion to determine which of the functions is the dominant function and which is the auxiliary function.
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