Archetype

There are various conceptual definition of the archetype, among others:
"The invisible patterns in the mind That control how we experience the world" (Pearson, 1991)

"Narrative structures, themes, and if achived That defineable characters, give us a temporary sense of success, fulfillment, and statisfaction" (Pearson & Marr, 2002)

Based on the above definitions, it can be said that the archetype is:

structure, theme, or main character who represents a person, which affects the way individuals perceive their experiences, which describes the basic needs of individuals who try to be met.

Communicate the underlying archetype and the expression of basic desires, the meaning and purpose in life, and one's motivation, which in pengekspresiaan, each individual has a style, and uniqueness of each, which differ from each other depending on the archetype of the dominant and active within the individual.

Function of the archetype itself for the individual is an individual influence the worldview of an incident, the self, its needs, and what we want, what would we learn, and others, and also the archetype also help one in finding the fulfillment of desire Basically so that the satisfaction in life.


Type of archetype
There are twelve archetype, the archetype contained any information of a general, how active individuals with the archetype of the face and resolve the problem, the tendency of what happens if the archetype is dominant within an individual, the stories interesting how people adapted to the archetype , the type of leadership, and the need terdasar which form the basis of individual motivation in doing something.

To-12 kind of archetype that is :

• innocent
• orphan
• warrior
• caregiver
• seeker
• lover 
• destroyer
• creator
• ruler
• magician
• sage
• jester

Archetype and Options
Archetype generally communicate what terdasar deepest desires and motivations of individuals and the basis of what makes the individual to do something, and archetypes also describe the purpose and intent of a person's life. Although essentially the archetype of human life is only 12, but every individual has the means of expression and different and unique styles, for example, a person is a warrior, warrior within the individual A will vary with the individual B, for example, individual A is a warrior in the form of volunteering in NGOs , while individual B is a warrior of mothers who are struggling to keep their children from hunger and cold. All of the Warrior-style, robes, and different goals. This is usually influenced by cultural, environmental setting, and the history of the individual.

Archetype is an important reference to the wants and needs and individual terdasar, and its purpose depends on what the dominant archetype, it eventually became the basis of motivation, and individual reference in looking at something, consider something and finally decided to do something. Here it appears that archetype affects the way you think, and look at a person, therefore archetype closely related to choices in life.


Measurement archetype
PMAI (Pearson-Marr archetype Indicator Instrument) is a measuring tool to measure terstandard archetype archetype, and is considered more effective and efficient in measuring the 12 archetypes, easier and faster diandministrasikan, and also the language and words are used more easily understood. PMAI consists of 72 questions briefly describe some people. Subjects had to answer how fit he was with the person. Answers are in the form of Likert scale, namely the scale that consists of multiple choice answers with a degree of intensity is not very suitable to fit. If an individual answer to the item being measured by means archrtpe item is low, the greater the individual answers to the more active archetype on the item, the highest answer is 5. Scoring will be done by summing the individual answers per domain, so we get the domain that has a higher value than the other domains, suggesting that the archetype of individuals in the domain is more dominant than the archetype in other domains.