Translators’ Personality Types, Functions, and Revision Behavior

Translators’ personality can provide insights to better understanding of the effects of personality types and functions in translation. In this vein, current study seeks to identify the dominant personality functions in translators as revisers and to shed light on the relationship between freelance translators’ personality functions and their revision behavior. To this end, a questionnaire was developed consisting of three sections as demographic information, the revision behavior, and MBTI personality test with 207 freelance translators participating in the research. Regarding the data analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted and subsequent statistical tests were run. As for the results, no significant correlations could be established between personality types, translation and revision behaviors except for the working fields of translation, the frequent pauses, and the level of their familiarity with the field being translated.