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Comparison of DiSC® Classic and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Research Report  \nItem Number: O-231  \n©1996 by Inscape Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright secured in the US and foreign countries.“DiSC” is a registered trademark of Inscape Publishing, Inc.  \nA Comparison of DiSC® Classic and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®  \nResearch Summary  \nBoth DiSC® Classic and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® are currently used in business settings for the purpose of employee development and team building. Each has its origin in theories developed during the first decades of the twentieth century. DiSC Classic is based on the theories of Dr. William Marston while the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is based on the theories of Dr. Carl Jung.  \nThe purpose of this research report is to compare DiSC Classic and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as instruments used for employee development and team building. It is written to explain the theoretical origins of both instruments, to elaborate on how they differ in purpose, and to suggest the appropriate application of each. It will also address how the profile obtained from one instrument relates to the profile obtained from the other.  \nThis report shows that in addition to arising from different theoretical origins, the instruments measure different things. DiSC Classic describes behavior based on how people view themselves in their various environments. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator describes how people approach the environment intellectually and attitudinally and how they process information.  \nThe profiles obtained from each instrument can not be expected to be correlated. They were designed for different purposes and based on different views of human behavior. Because the two instruments provide different kinds of information, they might very well augment each other as separate views of the same individual.  \nA Comparison of DiSC Classic and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as Instruments Used for Employee Development and Team-building  \nTheoretical Origins  \nEach of these popular instruments reflects important theoretical developments which started when psychology was in its infancy, and theorists were exploring ways to explain human behavior. Each one has been refined by more contemporary students of the theory. Inscape Publishing refined and expanded on the theories of William Marston to create DiSC Classic, originally called Personal Profile System®, and Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers adapted the theories of Carl Jung to create the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.  \nAn important distinction between the two measures is found in their theoretical origins. Both original authors sought to find a systematic way to understand human behavior.  \nDr. Marston intended to explain how normal human emotions lead to behavioral differences among people as well as to changes in a person's behavior from time to time. His work focused on finding practical explanations which would help people understand and manage their experience in the world. He also related his ideas to issues in interpersonal relationships.  \nInscape Publishing used Marston’s theories to develop a measuring tool using words and phrases in forced-choice, four-item sets. In so doing, they built on a body of research into the semantic meaning of words. Unlike most word-choice measures, they focused primarily on positive words and created a four-dimensional profile which highlights preferred behavioral strategies for coping with a particular environment (point of view) .  \nThis instrument, DiSC Classic, is a measure of \"surface traits\" or characteristic ways of behaving in a particular environment. It is not designed to describe human characteristics that are not readily observed. 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