Analysis of networking characteristics of different personality types

TL;DR

This study explores how different personality types, as classified by MBTI, relate to social network centrality and path length measures using Facebook data, revealing some intuitive behavioral patterns.

Contribution

It provides empirical insights into the relationship between MBTI personality types and social network characteristics, an area with limited prior quantitative research.

Findings

Some personality types show higher centrality in social networks.

Path length measures vary across personality types, indicating different social behaviors.

Results support anecdotal claims about social tendencies of personality types.

Abstract

The MBTI personality test and a personal facebook network were used in order to gain some insights on the relationship of social network centrality and path length measures and different personality types. Although the personality classification data were scarce, there were some intuitive quantitative results supporting anecdotal statements, based on empirical observations, about the expected social behavior of personality types.