| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 翻譯研究所 === 93 === The purpose of this research is to investigate the personality profile and anxiety level of conference interpreters in Taiwan. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and State-Trait Anxiety Tests were used to determine the personality types, Trait anxiety, and State anxiety (anxiety at work) of 30 participating conference interpreters. Research findings can be summarized into the following points:
(1) Subjects reported preference for Introversion (66.7%), Sensing (73.3%), Thinking (77.7%), and Judging (70%) on the MBTI. The most frequent personality types were ISTJ (Introverted Sensing with Thinking, 43.3%) and ESTJ (Extraverted Thinking with Sensing,16.7%); (2) subjects’ preference on the four scales and the most dominant types among them bear resemblance to that of Taiwanese university population and Taiwanese workers in other occupational settings; (3) the two most frequent types alone accounted for 60% of the total research population, which suggests that the profession attracts practical, thorough, and perseverant individuals who prefer to analyze facts and organize information, and have a very strong sense of duty which drives them to fulfill the tasks at hand. This conforms to many descriptions of interpreters’ mental qualities found in literature; (4) difference between subjects’ and the general population’s Trait anxiety scores was found to be statistically insignificant; moreover, subjects’ Trait Anxiety scores, gender, and MBTI personality types had statistically insignificant effect on their State Anxiety scores; however, (5) subjects’ years of experience was found to negatively correlate with their State anxiety scores. This highlights interpreters’ acquirements through accumulation of working experience rather than their innate qualities.
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