Temperament Test

Directions: The temperament test is made up of 40 groups of terms, consisting of four choices each.

Read the four choices in each group, and then click the choices that best describes you. When you have chosen a term for each of the 40 groups. Click the ‘’Calculate Score’’ button, which is directly under the last group of choices. Scroll down and you will see your results below the ‘’ Calculate Score’’ button.

1.Strengths

Animated – Full of life, lively use of hand, arm and face gestures.

Adventurous – One who will take on new and daring enterprises with a need to master them

Analytical – one who is constantly in the process of analysis people, places or things.

Adaptable – one who easily adapts to any situation.

2.Strengths

Persistent – Refusing to let go, insistently repetitive or continuous, can’t drop it.

Playful – full of fun and Good humour

Persuasive – One who persuades through logic and fact rather than charm

Peaceful – One who seems undisturbed and tranquil and who retreats from any form of strife.

3.Strengths

Submissive –one who easily submits to any other’s point of view or desire. This person has little or no need to assert his own view or opinion.

Self-sacrifing – One who constantly sacrifices his/her own personal wellbeing or for the sake or to meet the needs of others.

Sociable – This sociable refers to one who sees being with others as an opportunity to be cute and entertaining. If you are one who enjoys social gatherings as a challenge or as business opportunity then do not check this word

Strong –willed – One who is determined to have his/her own way.

4.Strengths

Considerate – Having regards for the feeling and needs of others

Controlled – One who has emotional feeling but doesn’t display them

Competitive – One who turns every situation, happening or game into an arena for competition. This person always plays to win

Convincing – this person can convince you of anything through the sheer charm of his/her personality. Facts are unimportant.

5.Strengths

Refreshing – One who renews and stimulates or pleasantly lifts spirits.

Respectful – One who treats others with deference, honor and esteem.

Reserved – Self-restraint in expression of emotion or enthusiasm.

Resourceful – One who is able to act quickly and effectively in virtually all situations.

6.Strengths

Satisfied – A person who easily accepts any circumstances or situation

Sensitive – This person is intensively sensitive to self and others.

Self-reliant – An independent person who can fully rely on his own capabilities, judgement and resources.

Spirited – One who is full of life and excitement.

7.Strengths

Planner – One who prefers to work out a detailed arrangement beforehand, for the accomplishment of a project or a goal. This person much prefers involvement with the planning stages and the finished product rather than the carrying out of the task

Patient – One who is unmoved by delay – calm and tolerant

Positive – characterised by certainty and assurance.

Promoter – One who can compel others to go along, join or invest through the sheer charm of his/her own

8.Strengths

Sure – One who is confident , not hesitating or wavering

Spontaneous – One who prefers all of life to be impulsive, unpremeditated activity. This person feels restricted by plans.

Scheduled – This person is controlled by his /her schedule and gets very upset if that schedule is interrupted. There is another type of person who uses a schedule to stay organized, but is not controlled by the schedule. If the second description is you, do not check this word.

Shy – Quiet, doesn’t instigate a conversation.

9.Strengths

Orderly – A person who has a methodical, systematic arrangement of things. Can be obsessively tidy.

Obliging – Accommodating, one who is quick to do it another’s way.

Outspoken – One who speaks frankly and without reserve.

Optimistic – This optimistic is an almost childlike, dreamer type of optimistic.

10.Strengths

Friendly – This person is responder to friendliness rather than an initiator. While he/she seldom starts a conversation, he/she responds with great warmth and enjoys the exchange.

Faithful – consistently reliable, Steadfast loyal and devoted sometimes beyond reason.

Funny – this person has an innate humour that can make virtually any story a funny one and is a remarkable joker teller. If you have, a dry humour does not check this word.

Forceful – A commanding personality. One would hesitate to take a stand against this person.

11.Strengths

Daring – One who is willing to take risk, fearless, bold.

Delightful – A person who is greatly pleasing, fun to be with.

Diplomatic – One who deals with people both tactfully and sensitively

Detailed – A person who prefers working with the minute or fields that require detail work such as maths, research, accounting, carving, art, graphics, etc.

12.Strengths

Cheerful – constantly being in a good spirit and promoting cheer.

Consistent – a person who is agreeable, compatible and not contradictory.

Cultured – One whose interests involve both intellectual and artistic pursuits such as theater, symphony, ballet, etc.

Confident – One who is self-assured and/ or certain of success.

13.Strengths

Idealistic – One who visualises in an ideal or perfect form, and has a need to measure up that standard.

Independent – One who is self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-confident and seems to have little need of help.

Inoffensive – A person who never causes offense, pleasant, unobjectionable, harmless.

Inspiring – One who encourages others to work, join or be involved. Another personality is deeply inspirational and has a need to bring lifechanging inspiration. If you are the latter, do not check this word

14.Strength

Demonstrative – One who openly expresses emotion, especially affection. This person doesn’t hesitate to touch others while speaking to them.

Decisive – A person with quick decision-making ability.

Dry humor – One who exhibits dry wit, usually one liner which can be sarcastic in nature, but very humorous

Deep – a person who is intense and introspective with a distaste of surface conversation and pursuits.

15.Strength

Mediator – A person who constantly finds him/herself in the role of reconciling differences in order to avoid conflicts.

Musical – one who either participates in or has an intense appreciation for music. This type of musical would not include those who find it fun to sing or play it. The latter would be a different personality that enjoys being entertainer rather than one who is deeply committed to music as an art form

Mover – One who is so driven by a need to be productive, that he/she finds it difficult to sit still.

Mixes easily – One who loves a party and can’t wait to meet everyone in the room, never meets a stranger.

16.Strength

Thoughtful – A considerate person who remembers special occasions and is quick to make a kind gesture.

Tenacious – One who holds on firmly, stubbornly, and won’t let go till the goals are accomplished.

Talker – A person who is constantly talking, generally telling funny stories and entertaining everyone around him/her. There is another compulsive talker who is a nervous talker and feels the need to fil the silence in order to make others feel comfortable.

Tolerant – One who easily accepts the thoughts and ways of others without the need to disagree or change them.

17.Strength

Listener – One who always seems willing to listen.

Loyal – faithful to person, ideal or job. This person is loyal beyond reason and to his/her own detriment.

Leader – A person who is a born leader. This is not one who rises to the occasion because they can lead, but who is driven to lead and finds it very difficult to believe anyone else can do the job.

Lively – Full of life, vigorous and energetic.

18.Strength

Contented –One who is easily satisfied with what he /she has.

Chief – A person who commands leadership.

Chart maker – one who enjoys charts, graphs or lists.

Cute – bubbly-beauty, cutie, precious, diminutive

19.Strength

Perfectionist – One who desires perfection. But not necessarily in every area of life.

Permissive – this person is permissive with employees, and children in order to avoid conflict

Productive – One who must constantly be working and / or producing. This person finds it very difficult to rest.

Popular – One who is the life of the party and therefore is much desired as a party guest

20.Strength

Bouncy – A bubbly lively, personality.

Bold – Fearless, daring, forward.

Behaved – One who desires to conduct him/ herself within the realm of what is proper.

Balanced – Stable, middle of the road personality, without extremes.

21.Weaknesses

Brassy – One who is showy, flashy, comes on strong.

Bossy – Commanding, domineering, over bearing, (do not relate this to the raising of children. All mothers seem bossy and domineering.0 Think only of adult relationships.

Bashful – One who shrinks from notice, resulting from self-consciousness.

Blank – A person who shows little facial expression or emotion.

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Undisciplined – A person whose lack of discipline permeates virtually every area of his/ her life

Unsympathetic – One who finds it difficult to relate to the problems or hurt others.

Unenthusiastic – A person who finds it hard to get excited or feel enthusiastic

Unforgiving – A person who has difficulty forgiving a hurt or injustice done to them. This individual may find it hard to release a grudge.

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Reluctant – One who is unwilling or struggles against getting involved.

Resentful – This person easily feels resentments as a result or real or imaged offenses.

Resistant – One who strives, works against, or resist s accepting any other way but his or her own

Repetitious – This person retells stories and incidents to entertain you without realising he/she has already told the story several times before. This is not a question of so much forgetfulness, as it is of constantly needing of something to say.

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Fussy – One who is insistent on over petty matters or details, calling for great attention to trivial details

Fearful – One who often experiences feelings of fear, apprehension or anxiousness.

Forgetful – This person is forgetful because it isn’t fun to remember. His /her forgetfulness is tied to a lack of discipline. There is another personality that is more like the absent-minded professor. This person tends to be off in another world and only remembers what he /she chooses to remember. If you are the latter, do not check the word

Frank – One who is straight forward, outspoken and doesn’t mind telling you what he/she thinks.

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Impatient – A person who finds it difficult to endure irritation or wait patiently.

Insecure – One who is apprehensive or lacks confidence.

Indecisive – This person finds it difficult to make a decision at all. Another personality labours long ever each decision in order to make the perfect one. If you are the latter, do not check this word.

Interrupts – This person is interrupts because he/she is afraid of forgetting the wonderful thing they have to say if another is allowed to finish. This person is more of a talker than a listener.

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Unpopular – A person whose internally and demand for perfection can push others away

Uninvolved – One who has no desire to become involved in clubs, groups or people activities

Unpredictable – This person may be ecstatic one moment and blue the next, willing to help and then disappear, promoting to come and then forgetting to show up.

Unaffectionate – One who finds it difficult to verbally or physically demonstrate affection openly.

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Headstrong – One who insists on having his/her way

Haphazard – One who has no consistent way of doing things

Hard to please – A person whose standards are so high that it is difficult to eer please them

Hesitant – This person is slow to get moving and hard to get involved

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Plain – The middle of the road personality without highs or lows and showing little if any emotion.

Pessimistic – This person while hoping for the best, generally sees the down side of a situation

Proud – One with great self-esteem who sees him/herself as always right and the best person for the job

Permissive – This personality allows others ( including children) in order to keep from being dislike

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Angered easily – one who has a childlike flash-in-the-pan that expresses itself in a child’s tantrums style. It is over and forgotten instantly.

Aimless – A person who is not a goal seeker and has no desire to be one

Argumentative – One who incites argue generally because he/she is determined to be right no matter what the situation may be.

Alienated – A person who feels estranged from others often because of insecurity or fear that others don’t really enjoy his/her company

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Naïve – a simple childlike perspective, lacking sophistication or worldliness. This is not to be confused with uninformed. There is another personality that is so consumed with his/her own particular field of interest that he/she simply could not care less of what is going on outside of that sphere

Negative attitude- One whose attitude is seldom positive and is often able to see the down side or dark side of each situation

Nervy – full of confidence, fortitude and sheer guts.

Nonchalant – easy-going, unconcerned, indifferent.

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Worrier – One who consist feels uncertain or troubled

Withdrawn – A person who pulls back to him/herself and needs a great deal of alone and isolation time.

Workaholic — This is one of the two workaholic’s personality. This particular one is an aggressive goal-setter who must be constantly productive and feels guilty when resting. This workaholic is not driven by a need for perfection or competition but by a need for accomplishments and reward

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Too sensitive – one who is overly sensitive and the introspective.

Tactless – A person who can sometimes express his/herself in somewhat offensive and inconsiderable way

Timid – One who shrinks from difficult situations

Talkative – A compulsive talker who finds it difficult to listen. Again this is an entertaining talker not a nervous talker.

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Doubtful – A person who is full of doubt uncertain.

Disorganized – One whose lack of organisational ability virtually affects every area of his life

Domineering – One who compulsively take control of situation and /or people. Do not consider the motoring role. All mothers are somewhat domineering

Depressed – A person who struggles with bouts of depression of a fairly consistent basis

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Inconsistent – Erratic, contradictory, illogical.

Introvert – A person whose thoughts and interest are directed inward. One who lives within him/herself.

Intolerant; One who appears unable to withstand or accept another’s attitudes, points of view or way of doing things.

Indifferent – a person to whom most things don’t mater one way or the other.

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Messy – this person is messy because it isn’t fun to discipline his/herself to clean. The mess is hardly noticed. There is another personality that gets messy when depressed and yet another that is messy because it takes so much energy to do the cleaning. Be sure you are the first one mentioned if you check this word.

Moody – one easily slips into mood. This person doesn’t really get very high emotionally but does experience very low lows

Mumbles – This person may mumble quietly under the breadth when pushed. This is a passive display of anger.

Manipulative – One who influences or manages shrewdly or deviously for one’s own advantage. One who will find a way to get his/her own way.

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Slow- one who is slow-moving, easy going.

Stubborn – A person who is determined to exert his /her own will, not easily persuaded, obstinate

Show-off – one who needs to be the centre of attention

Skeptical – Disbelieving, questioning the motive behind the words.

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Loner- One who requires a lot of alone time and tends to avoid other people.

Lord over others – A person who doesn’t hesitate to let you know that he/she has won.

Lazy – One who evaluates work or activity in terms of how much energy it will take

Loud – A person whose laugh or voice can be heard above others in the room.

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Sluggish – slow to get started

Suspicious – One who tends to suspect or distrust

Short- tempered – One who has a demanding impatience-based anger and a very short flue. This type of anger is expressed when others are not moving fast enough or have not completed what they’ve been asked to do.

Scatter-brained- A person lacking the power of concentration, or attention flightily.

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Revengeful – One who knowingly or otherwise holds a grudge and punishes the offender, often by subtly withholding friendship or affection

Restless – A person who likes constant new activity because it isn’t fun to do the same things all the time

Reluctant – One who is unwilling or struggles to get involved.

Rash – one who may act hastily, without thinking things through, generally because of impatience

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Compromising- A person who will often compromise, even when he/she is right. in order to avoid conflict

Critical – one who constantly evaluates and makes judgement. Example: One who is critical might see someone coming down the street and within seconds might try to evaluate their cleanliness, look of intelligence or lack of it, style of clothing or lack of it, physical attractiveness or lack of it and the list goes on. This person constantly analyzes and critiques, sometimes without realizing that he/she is doing so.

Crafty – shrewd, one who always find a way to get to the desired end.

Changeable- A person with a childlike short attention span that needs a lot of change and variety to keep from getting bored.