Predominant psychological types in a group of psychology teachers

Abstract

Analytical Psychology has as one of its assumptions that relationships have modifying effects on subjects. From this the present study aimed to investigate the relation between the psychologic types of Psychology professors of a private higher education college in São Paulo, Brazil, and the characteristics of “Tabela de Profissões Mais Encontradas em Cada Tipo” (List of Occupations Found in Each Type), (ZACHARIAS, 1994), based on the junguian typology highlighted in the following occupations: college professor and psychologist. This study had a descriptive and exploratory character in which we has invited to participate all of 30 professors in practical and theoretical subjects of the Psychology course of a college in a country town of São Paulo state. Therefore, to the 22 professors that had accept to participate of que research was applied the QUATI test, a questionnaire to evaluate the typology, of Zacharias (1994), based on the psychological types of Jung. After that, the result was compare to the “Tabela de Profissões Mais Encontradas em Cada Tipo” (ZACHARIAS, 1994). The analysis and the processing of the results was analyze in a symbolic archetypic view by the Analytic Psychology perspective (PENNA, 2009). Among the main results, we found that the professors earn, as a main psychological function “Feeling”, detonating positive relation with the List of Zacharias (1994) to the Psychologist occupation. The result diverge when it compared to the college teacher occupation, which on had the type “Thinking” in the most prevalent typology. The hypothesis of the research about this is that psychologists teachers have chosen this occupation as a second option being people who lead more contexts into account if they like or dislike something emphasizing the Feeling function than to evaluate targeted by a logical reasoning would be the Thinking function, addition are people who tend to be affable and welcoming aspects amenable to career psychologists. It is considered, as hypothesis of the research based on the relationship between test data and questionnaire data, that psychologists teachers chose this position as a second choice of carrier because they have traits of values dimension of people and objects, empathy, kindness emphasizing the Feeling function.