This quiz is not researched and is only intended to give you some idea of your temperament. As far as I know there is no quiz or other insturment that will give you a 100% guaranteed answer as to what your temperament is. At best, you can only make a statment such as "right now I have a preference for a Blue temperament." It is believed that we are born with a specific dominant temeprament that remains dominant within us all of our lives. It is always helpful to do more reading and take workshops to give you a clearer understanding of the concept of temperament and how it applies to your life and to the lives of others.
Temperament Sorter
Analysing Green
___ I like to analyse things to understand how they work.
___ It is important for me to feel competent.
___ Only I know if I am competent. Others are not really in a position
to judge.
___ Acquiring knowledge is very important for me.
___ I am my own worst critic.
___ I am constantly assessing my abilities.
___ My goal is to master all there is to know within my domain of interest.
___ I often find that so-called “experts” don’t know what they are
talking about.
___ Even with all my achievements I often feel on the verge of failure.
___ Recreation is necessary and has to be scheduled.
___ I often believe that others know very little, but I still expect
them to live up to my high standard.
___ I tend to express myself in terse, compact and logical comments.
___ When necessary, I can be logical, ruthless, taking the necessary
action required, even when it causes me regret and sorrow.
___ I live for my work. Work is play and play is work.
___ My constant search is to find out why.
___ I like to explore ideas.
___ I am interested in change for change sake, just to see what will
happen.
___ The past is dead and gone for me. I look mainly to the future.
___ I enjoy figuring out what is happening more than I enjoy participating.
___ My need is for power. Power is knowledge, knowing how the physical
world works.
___ Total Green
Dependable Gold
___ To belong to various social groups is important to me.
___ I believe that one has to earn one’s sense of belonging in a specific
group.
___ I would much rather be a giver than a taker.
___ I have a parental attitude towards the world. I feel a responsibility
to look out for others.
___ I can quite accept situations in which I feel bound and obligated.
___ I follow a work ethic and feel those who follow a play ethic are
neglecting their duties.
___ I can easily accept the Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” as my
own personal motto.
___ In Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper” I identify with
the industrious ant.
___ I tend to put a lot of effort into society’s institutions, such
as family, church, service clubs and local government.
___ When I attend a party, I really want to help the host or hostess
in some way.
___ I find it easier to save than spend.
___ When asked to perform a task, even though I am already very busy,
I find it very difficult to say no.
___ I feel it is an honour to be elected to some office.
___ My heritage is very important to me.
___ I find I am resistant to change even when I know it is necessary
or inevitable.
___ I don’t believe that “possession is nine-tenths of the law.” If
it belongs to someone it should be returned.
___ I find it very hard to forgive others unless I feel they are truly
sorry for what they have done.
___ It is important for me to give a good day’s work for a good day’s
pay.
___ When judging most situations, I can easily decide what is right
and what is wrong.
___ My need is to have status (to know my place in society’s various
hierarchies.)
___ Total Gold
Action Orange
___ Today must be enjoyed. Tomorrow may never come.
___ I feel really alive when I am able to act on my impulses.
___ I thrive in situations where the outcome is not known.
___ I need the freedom to test my limits.
___ In a crisis I act quickly and use all my abilities.
___ I quickly become disinterested when there is no variety in what
I am doing.
___ Tools fascinate me. I must try them out.
___ Friends would consider me as exciting, cheerful, light-hearted
and full of fun.
___ I am easily bored with repetitive situations.
___ I like to try new things.
___ Setbacks are only temporary.
___ Waiting for something to happen is torture.
___ Life is an adventure.
___ I have developed a number of skills because I felt an urge just
to keep at them until I had mastered them.
___ Having to rehearse or prepare is very frustrating. I just want
to get on with it.
___ Even at my job, if I enjoy it, I think of it as play.
___ I like jobs that have a lot of action in them.
___ When any of my relationships, of whatever kind, ends, I can move
on rather quickly.
___ In Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper” I identify with
the playful grasshopper.
___ I enjoy making an impression on others.
___ Total Orange
Empathetic Blue
___ “Becoming” is more important to me than “belonging.”
___ I am on a constant search for “self” and since I am not sure what
“self” is, I have never quite found it.
___ My purpose in life is to have a purpose in life.
___ My desire is for self-actualization: to be and become real.
___ I find I easily become what others want me to become.
___ To think of myself as but a grain of sand on an immense beach fills
me with despair. I need to feel unique.
___ I must find meaning in the way I use my time and how I enter into
relationships.
___ I must present myself to others as I truly am. To do otherwise
is to lack integrity.
___ I am very aware of others’ emotions and feelings.
___ When I am in a relationship of whatever kind, I can spend immense
amounts of effort maintaining it.
___ What I do for others, I do not expect them to do the same for me;
but I must have some response from them.
___ I find it easy to speak and write fluently.
___ Any cause I espouse must have meaning for me to stay involved with
it.
___ I feel I can see potential in everyone and I delight in helping
them find it.
___ I frequently attend workshops and/or read in an attempt to find
“answers.”
___ “Be real, authentic and meaningful” could well be my motto.
___ When I create something, it rarely lives up to my initial vision
of it.
___ I can be an intellectual butterfly, flitting from idea to idea
without really mastering any of them.
___ I think of the possibilities of people.
___ I have a need is to be in a relationship. I am not content to be
an "island onto myself."
___ Total Blue
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