Florence Nightingale: Her Personality Type

This article casts new and refreshing light on Florence Nightingale’s life and work by examining her personality type. Using the theory-based Myers—Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the author examines Nightingale’s personality type and reveals that she was an introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging type...

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Published in:Journal of holistic nursing 2010-03, Vol.28 (1), p.57-67
Main Author: Dossey, Barbara M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Holistic nursing
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Nurses
Personality
Social sciences
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Summary:This article casts new and refreshing light on Florence Nightingale’s life and work by examining her personality type. Using the theory-based Myers—Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the author examines Nightingale’s personality type and reveals that she was an introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging type. The merit of using the MBTI is that it allows us to more clearly understand three major areas of Nightingale’s life that have been partially unacknowledged or misunderstood: her spiritual development as a practicing mystic, her management of her chronic illness to maintain her prodigious work output, and her chosen strategies to transform her visionary ideas into new health care and social realities.
ISSN:0898-0101
1552-5724
DOI:10.1177/0898010109356473