Temperaments are ways of classifying peoples’ emotional attitudes, the foundations of their personality. Temperament is an unseen force underlying human action. It is the combination of inborn traits or inherited genes that subconsciously affects a person’s behaviour.
Here are the four major types of temperament
1. The Sanquine:
A person with sanquine temperament is a jovial person, loving and always enjoying life at present. They are characterized with the following:
- They are talkers more than they are listeners.
- They may move away from friends that they consider to be boring or dull.
- They are bubbly, fun-loving, extroverted people-people who are always in the mood for a good time. They love wild nights out.
- They make friends quickly, and they’ll cheerily talk to strangers. They are always ready to make new friends
- They are not picky, and will usually like more things than they dislike. They tend to enjoy things that are trendy, popular, and so on.
- They enjoy social situations, and believe that everyone else would too.
- They’re likely to convince people to come along with things like ‘come on, you’ll enjoy it!’ or ‘you don’t know what you’re missing!’
- They aren’t particularly trustworthy… as they’ll be too eager to spill secrets with others, and their general flightiness can make them unreliable as they’re likely to get easily distracted by other things
- They are not always loyal to friends (Out of sight is out of mind)
2. The Choleric:
Choleric people are leaders and directors. They seek to be in control of situations, to be on top, to be the best. Cholerics are characterized with the following attributes:
- They are hard working,bossy, extroverts they always wants to be in charged
- A choleric is a born leader, not always discouraged by adversities
- They are optimistic about life
- They are always a goal- getter with unshakable confidence in his/her own ability
- They will ‘challenge’ others aggressively in order to show their respect for the person’s strength. They believe that it is important to ‘prove oneself’.
- They love competition… but hate to lose.
- They blame others for their own mistakes, often to the point of lying to save face
The Melancholic
- The defining feature of a melancholic attitude is perfectionism. They are idealists who wish for things to be a certain way, and they get distressed when they are not.
- They will blame themselves for mistakes, because they are acutely aware of their own imperfection.
- They tend to prefer things to be tidy, organised in some way or another. This doesn’t necessarily mean ‘neat’ as such; often they have very idiosyncratic organisation methods.
- They are idealists, who imagine perfect fantasies and feel upset when things don’t live up to these fantasies.
- They prefer to tackle the heart of the matter, which can lead to them avoiding ‘beating around the bush’
- They are more of an introvert, but could become extrovert sometimes, or gloomy and depressed due to his changing moods
- They are faithful friend who could go to any length to assist or satisfy his friends
The Phlegmatic
- They don’t believe that they know best.
- They have no desire to be a ‘winner’; they only wish for peace.
- They’re dependable. Always does what is expected
- They are well-behaved; rebelling against established rules would feel deeply uncomfortable to them.
- They really, really do not wish to be a bother to others, and always put others first. This is due to a deep-rooted unease about asserting themselves rather than a lack of confidence, or a conscious desire to be a ‘nice person’.
- They are quick to apologise for any mistakes that they may have made, and will sacrifice their own happiness to ensure that others are happy.
- They are empathetic, and acutely aware of the feelings of those that they are interacting with, as they do not wish to hurt these feelings.
- They have tremendous difficulty saying no, and will go along with things that they dislike to make others happy.
- They are extremely trustworthy; if they make a promise, it’s very likely that they will keep it.
- They’re terrified of doing things wrong.
- They will blame themselves if mistakes are made, even if it was someone else’s fault, just to make others feel better and more at ease.
Now, you can identify what your temperament is.
