The Four Temperaments

[Resurrexi]

Take the test [url="http://www.4marks.com/temperaments/test/questions.html"]here[/url].


My results:

Melancholic
64%

Choleric
36%


The Melancholic / Choleric

The melancholic-choleric is also a leader with the potential to accomplish great works. However, where the choleric-melancholic is driven by the challenge and the opportunity, the melancholic-choleric is inspired more by the nobility of the task. The introverted nature of the melancholic, combined with the focused and unempathic nature of the choleric, can result in an individual who is highly motivated by noble ideals (even humanitarian ones), but who prefers to work alone, rather than with people. The melancholic side of both temperament mixtures results in the project being organized, ethical, and high-minded, while the choleric aspect is the driving and demanding force.

If you are melancholic-choleric, you are somewhat less pragmatic (or utilitarian) than a pure choleric, just as persevering and determined, and with a greater emphasis on the ideal. Likely to be motivated by the most noble and demanding of causes, you are capable of founding a humanitarian society, composing a symphony, founding a school, or discovering a cure. You are organized, perfectionist, introspective, driven, and moody (though less so than a pure melancholic). You will be less active than a choleric-melancholic and less extraverted, more internally focused.

But your weaknesses include a tendency to excessive self-criticism and criticism of others, being dismissive or overly judgmental, exhibiting a tendency to self-absorption, and possessing an untrustful and controlling nature. You tend to be inflexible, can bear grudges for a long time and may be prone to discouragement. A melancholic-choleric who is not attentive to his spiritual life, and does not keep his eye assiduously on the truly important things of life can become a cross to those around him, through his nit-picking, perfectionism, disdain, bitterness, resentfulness, spitefulness when crossed, and even haughtiness.

If your temperament is melancholic-choleric, for a better understanding of your temperament it is recommended that you read the full descriptions of the melancholic and choleric.

[ardillacid]

Really, 107 questions?

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='notardillacid' date='10 March 2010 - 12:10 AM' timestamp='1268197806' post='2070086']
Really, 107 questions?
[/quote]

There are several other, shorter temperament tests if you wanted to take one of them. You can find them by doing a Google search.

Also, you can read the different personality types without taking the test and decide which best suits you.

[jeffpugh]

There are many threads on variants of this temperament test. Just drop a search!

[Nihil Obstat]

Long quiz.


I hate when more than one response applies very well to me. I'm doing my best though.

[ardillacid]

choleric

[aalpha1989]

72% Melancholic 28% Phlegmatic

[Nihil Obstat]

I just finished, but it doesn't show any results.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='10 March 2010 - 12:23 AM' timestamp='1268198622' post='2070099']
I just finished, but it doesn't show any results.
[/quote]

I think you have to sign up to see your results.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='09 March 2010 - 11:24 PM' timestamp='1268198654' post='2070100']
I think you have to sign up to see your results.
[/quote]
Guess I wasted my time then. Lol.

[aalpha1989]

I have to admit my phlegmatic side is my preferred one.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='10 March 2010 - 12:25 AM' timestamp='1268198721' post='2070103']
Guess I wasted my time then. Lol.
[/quote]

I signed up after taking the quiz. It only took me a minute. Then I hastily went back through the quiz and selected all the answers I had just chosen.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='09 March 2010 - 11:26 PM' timestamp='1268198793' post='2070106']
I signed up after taking the quiz. It only took me a minute. Then I hastily went back through the quiz and selected all the answers I had just chosen.
[/quote]
I don't have the motivation.
Plus I don't want to give my email to too many websites.

(Also I tend not to trust personality quizzes.)

Edited March 10, 2010 by Nihil Obstat

[aalpha1989]

I had to take this test for my spiritual director.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='10 March 2010 - 12:26 AM' timestamp='1268198773' post='2070105']
I have to admit my phlegmatic side is my preferred one.
[/quote]

And my choleric side is my preferred one. I mean, who wants to be melancholic? haha.

[zunshynn]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='09 March 2010 - 10:26 PM' timestamp='1268198793' post='2070106']
I signed up after taking the quiz. It only took me a minute. Then I hastily went back through the quiz and selected all the answers I had just chosen.
[/quote]

That's annoying though. It should tell you before you take it. Another way 4marks is lame.

[zunshynn]

I don't recall what this quiz said my temperament is, although I think it said I was a lot more choleric than I actually am. I think I'm around 70-80% Melancholic and 30-20% Choleric, based on my results from the Temperament God Gave You book, and what people that have lived with me think.

[aalpha1989]

[quote name='zunshynn' date='10 March 2010 - 12:30 AM' timestamp='1268199048' post='2070112']
I don't recall what this quiz said my temperament is, although I think it said I was a lot more choleric than I actually am. I think I'm around 70-80% Melancholic and 30-20% Choleric, based on my results from the Temperament God Gave You book, and what people that have lived with me think.
[/quote]

Yeah. I think I'm more phlegmatic than it says.

[zunshynn]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='09 March 2010 - 10:33 PM' timestamp='1268199189' post='2070114']
Yeah. I think I'm more phlegmatic than it says.
[/quote]

I think part of the problem with the quiz is that it tends to ask questions that are more about personality in general than temperament... Temperament is a part of your personality that really doesn't change... Even babies have our distinct temperaments... your personality as a whole encompasses the way you learn to work around the strengths and weaknesses of your temperament... but to really determine your temperament you have to look at how you automatically react to situations, not to how you would after having matured more.

[jiyoung]

I'm told I'm a mix of sanguine and choleric, both by observers and by that test. I've taken it twice, and I once got more choleric, and then more sanguine. I'm thinking I'm more on the sanguine side, but definitely I can see myself being those two. I can be a little quieter sometimes, but I think it's more of a defense mechanism, and my natural personality is more outgoing and sanguine.

It's an interesting way to look at yourself, that's for sure...