Relationships between Jungian typology and value-orientation

Author

Thomas Richard Funkhouser, University of the Pacific

Date of Award

1966

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Wilfred M. Mitchell

First Committee Member

Leonard P. Campos

Second Committee Member

Jerry S. Saff [?]

Abstract

This study hypothesizes that there exists between a person's value orientation as measured by the Study of Values and his function-types as described by Jung. It is the E's assumption that there is some kind of correspondence between the value processes and the function-types because of their similar approaches. For example, the sensing function is identical with perception of stimuli being received through the sense organs while the aesthetic value seeks form and harmony in an experience. Each is concerned with an impression as it is perceived. The thinking function and the theoretical value are concerned with cognition, logical analysis of events, and rational inferences. The feeling function places a value or a judgement on an object, whether personal, impersonal, or identical, in a manner void of any prior logical analysis. The social value is more related to group interaction than is the feeling function. But, as with the feeling function, the group interaction of the social value is based more upon a judgement rather than upon a logical analysis. Both the intuiting function and the religious value are concerned with the mystical meanings and potential of a content. In summary, and in testing Jung's theory concerning the relationships between the functions, it is hypothesized that:

1(a) there is an inverse relationship between the sensing and the intuiting functions;

1(b) there is an inverse relationship between the thinking and the feeling functions;

2. (a) there is a positive relationship between the sensing function find the aesthetic value; in other words, the higher the sensing function, the higher the aesthetic value;

2(b) there is a positive relationship between the thinking function and the theoretical value; in other words, the higher the thinking function, the higher the theoretical value;

2(c) there is a positive relationship between the feeling function and the social value; in other words, the higher the feeling function, the higher the social value; and,

2(d) there is a positive relationship between the intuiting function and the religious value; in other words, the higher the intuiting function, the higher the religious value.

Pages

43

Recommended Citation

Funkhouser, Thomas Richard. (1966). Relationships between Jungian typology and value-orientation. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1618