KEIRSEY PERSONALITY PREFERENCES

Each Scale Below Measures Individual Aspects of Personality

ExtraversionIntroversion

75% of population25% of population

Sociability______Territoriality

Interaction______Concentration

External______Internal

Breadth______Depth

Extensive______Intensive

Multiplicity of relationships______Limited relationships

Expenditure of energies______Conservation of energies

Interest in external events______Interest in internal reaction

SensationiNtuition

75% of population25% of population

Experience______Hunches

Past______Future

Realistic______Speculative

Effort______Inspiration

Actual______Possible

Down-to-earth______Head-in-clouds

Utility______Fantasy

Fact______Fiction

Practicality______Ingenuity

Sensible______Imaginative

Focus on details______Focus on big picture

ThinkingFeeling

50% of population50% of population

Objective______Subjective

Principles______Values

Policy______Social values

Laws______Extenuating circumstances

Criterion______Intimacy

Firmness______Persuasion

Impersonal______Personal

Justice______Humane

Categories______Harmony

Standards______Good or bad

Critique______Appreciate

Allocation______Devotion

JudgingPerceiving

50% of population50% of population

Settled______Pending

Decided______Gather more data

Fixed______Flexible

Plan ahead______Adapt as you go

Run one's life______Let life happen

Closure______Open options

Decision-making______Treasure hunting

Planned______Open ended

Wrap it up______Something will turn up

Information adapted from Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates

KEIRSEY'S TEMPERAMENT TYPES

Information adapted from Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates

Motivational Forces: Duty and Responsibility

Tendencies

  • Duty! If I don't, who will?
  • Operate best with clear instructions
  • Rule follower, maker, enforcer
  • Medicine, Business, Education, Government
  • Conservative and organized
  • Support or Leadership Managers
  • Traditional pillars of society

Motivational Forces: Action and Play

Tendencies

  • Work is essentially play
  • Hands-on occupations
  • Good in crisis
  • Enjoy today--dislike setting goals
  • Sports, Performance, Sales, Emergency Personnel
  • Risk-takers
  • Excellent negotiators


Motivational Forces: Strategy and Analysis

Tendencies

  • Always students, love to learn!
  • Career driven
  • Skills, knowledge, and competence are essential
  • Independent by nature
  • Science, Law, Computers, Upper Management
  • Focus on future, theory, and abstract concepts
  • Architects of complex systems

Motivational Forces: Meaning and Relationships

Tendencies

  • Interested in meaningful careers
  • Bring out best in others
  • Unity and integrity are important
  • Communicators (writing and/or speaking)
  • Teaching, Consulting, Counseling, Arts
  • People, interaction, relationships
  • Seek true identity and self-actualization

Information adapted from Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates