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What the Temperament test is

Temperament is the direction your reactions started in. This assessment looks at three things.

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What it looks at

How it works

You read each statement and answer on a five-point scale.

What your result looks like

Your result is one of 27, shown as a three-letter code and its name.

The free result shows the type's name and its three-letter code.

What's free

  • The type's name
  • Its three-letter code

Where it comes from

This assessment is based on the psychobiological model of personality, which treats temperament and character as different kinds of thing. It takes its structure and dimensions from that model; the Temperament test covers three of the model's four temperament dimensions. The questions don't come from any commercial test — they were assembled separately from a publicly available item bank.

Being based on a model means it takes that structure. It does not mean the results are proven correct, or that they tell you what will happen.

What this is not

  • Not a medical diagnosis.

  • It does not measure ability or worth.

  • The 27 types are differences, not a ranking.

  • It is independent of the Character assessment, and neither result explains the other.

The other test

What the Character test is

Character describes attitudes you have developed through life.

What the Character test is

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