Personality types and learning styles: a study of working people in Bangkok.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the major personality types and learning styles of working people in Bangkok. A mixed-methodology approach was used in this study. The sampling group consisted of 100 people. 2 instruments were used for this research, one was a personality types inventory that was created by Hogan& Champagne, the other one was a learning style questionnaire which was created by Honey&Mumford. Personality type questionnaires were distributed to a sampling group first and after that, learning style questionnaires were distributed to the same group of people. Then, the researcher randomly selected 3 people from each type of personality to interview regarding their preferred learning style. This was done in order to find out what learning style they prefer to adopt when learning. The major personality type of people working in any position in Bangkok is I S T J and the major learning style of this group of people is Theorist.