Keirsey Temperament Assessment - Free, Powerful, and Revealing
During my last session at the Advanced School for Innovators we were reminded of another personal inventory tool that’s just as useful as Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and KAI - the Keirsey Temperament Assessment.
When you go to the Keirsey assessment page the first thing that you notice is that, unlike KAI, you can take the assessment over the internet. The second thing you notice is that, unlike KAI and MBTI, the Keirsey assessment is free. This makes it a lot more accessible than the other two. The website has a wealth of information on interpreting the assessment results.
Unlike MBTI, which assesses personality into one of sixteen broad types, the Keirsey assessment places you into one of four possible temperaments (descriptions taken from the Keirsey webpage):
- Guardian: Guardians pride themselves on being dependable, helpful, and hard-working. Guardians make loyal mates, responsible parents, and stabilizing leaders. Guardians tend to be dutiful, cautious, humble, and focused on credentials and traditions. Guardians are concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, seek security, prize gratitude, and dream of meting out justice.
- Artisan: Artisans tend to be fun-loving, optimistic, realistic, and focused on the here and now. Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous. Artisans make playful mates, creative parents, and troubleshooting leaders. Artisans are excitable, trust their impulses, want to make a splash, seek stimulation, prize freedom, and dream of mastering action skills.
- Idealist: Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom. Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic. Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials. Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.
- Rational: Rationals tend to be pragmatic, skeptical, self-contained, and focused on problem-solving and systems analysis. Rationals pride themselves on being ingenious, independent, and strong willed. Rationals make reasonable mates, individualizing parents, and strategic leaders. Rationals are even-tempered, they trust logic, yearn for achievement, seek knowledge, prize technology, and dream of understanding how the world works.
Each of the four main temperaments has four subtemperaments. Each is explained in detail on the assessment page linked above. This page explains the relationship between Keirsey and MBTI.
My temperament is Rational. I can see a lot of the archetypal rational characteristics in myself, but also a few from idealist and artisan. My main rational trait is pragmatism, and I’m drawn to strategic planning as are many rationals. I also place a high value on competence, my own and that of others. But as a musician I have some artisan traits, and as a thinker I have some intuitive traits of the idealist.
Regarding the relationship between my type and temperament, it doesn’t seem to match. My rational temperament should indicate a type ENTP, whereas I’m an ESTP. The page I linked above claims a 75 percent corrrelation, but in my case the Form Q portion of my MBTI assessment indicates I’m right on the border between S and N anyway.
Take the Keisey assessment and read up on your results. It will tell you a lot about yourself and how you relate to others.
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Hello, I like your site very much. I am an INTP female and I hate it whenpeople tell me that because i am a female INTP then I should be less then male INTPS. After reading so many articles on my type of temperement, eveyr thing fits exactly my qualifications and m type without any exceptions! My feelngs and social skills come as secondary or thrid and my rational or mind is obsessed all th etime with logic, reasoning and analysing even th esmallest subjects. I am not very good at socialising and because I do not act like the rest of females around, the way we suppoed to act and think, they think we are arrogant and selfish but I jsut tell people the truth all the time adn how things are in real worlds. I do not watch soaps or like to go shopping, take cooking classe but rather take chemistry courses instead! etc.. It becomes some times very painful to some of us as INTP females becuse we are not the way the society wants us to be or act! We suppoed to act in a stupid emotional manner but we are just us and people has to accept us the way we are and we can not pretend all the time!Any ways I jsut had to share my taughts on that and thanks again for letting me leave this comment here.
What and how the intp females supposed ot act or think?They say we are less then intp males and we can be more socializing adn be more emotional but I am telling you, there is no differences between us and you the intp males or other males on the planet! I ahve been single, on my own, always made the best logical decisions in my life on my own without consulting any one and mos tof the time I was right to the point! Why should we be more emotional then men on earth? I always think logical, I always talk about the truth and logical, I always go with my head first before my heart. I am not saying I have no heart but it kills me if I jsu tfollow my heart/emotions sutpidly!And I know we do live in a wild negative emtional society all the time. Most people do judge and make decisions purely up on their emotions and how their moods are on certain time in a certain day!If you want to be successful you have to go with logic. I believe in god and spiritual but you can also serve god much better when you are logical, do nto you think so?God is a pur logical thing after all!Ever thing he did was based on logic!
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