Personality Profile

This quiz is taken from the book "Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself" by Florence Littauer. This quiz is to determine your Personality Profile. After completing this quiz, you will have a better understanding of your dominant temperament and inner traits. No one is 100% of one temperament, but your score will give you an accurate view of your basic strengths and weaknesses.

Take a few minutes to check off the questions below to complete your Personality Profile. If you are unsure which word most applies to you, ask a spouse or friend, and think of what your answer would have been when you were a child.

Created by: Melvin Holmes

Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Adventurous - one who will take on new and daring enterprises with a determination to master them
- Adaptable - easily fits and is comfortable in any situation
- Animated - full of life, lively use of hand, arm, and face gestures
- Analytical - likes to examine the parts for their logical and proper relationships
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Persistent - sees one project through to its completion before starting another
- Playful - full of fun and good humor
- Persuasive - convinces through logic and fact rather than charm or power
- Peaceful - seems undisturbed and tranquil and retreats from any form of strife
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Submissive - easily accepts any other's point of view or desire with little need to assert own opinion
- Self-sacrificing - willingly gives up own personal being for the sake of, or to meet the needs of others
- Sociable - one who seeks being with others as an opportunity to be cute and entertaining rather than as a challenge or business opportunity
- Strong-willed - one who is determined to have own way
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Considerate - having regard for the needs and feelings of others
- Controlled - has emotional feelings but rarely displays them
- Competitive - turns every situation, happening, or game into a contest and always plays to win
- Convincing - can win you over to anything through the sheer charm of personality
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Refreshing - renews and stimulates or makes other feel good
- Respectful - treats others with deference, honor, and esteem
- Reserved - self-restraint in expression of emotion or enthusiasm
- Resourceful - able to act quickly and effectively in virtually all situations
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Satisfied - a person who easily accepts any circumstance or situation
- Sensitive - intensively cares about others, and what happens
- Self-reliant - an independent person who can fully rely on own capabilities, judgement, and resources
- Spirited - full of life and excitement
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Planner - prefers to work out a detailed arrangement beforehand for the accomplishment of project or goal, and prefers involvement with planning stages rather than carrying out the task
- Patient - unmoved by delay, remains calm and tolerant
- Positive - knows it will turn out right if in charge
- Promoter - urges or compels others to go along, join, or invest through the charm of own personality
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Sure - confident, rarely hesitates or wavers
- Spontaneous - prefers all of life to be impulsive, unpremeditated activity, not restricted by plans
- Scheduled - makes, and lives, according to a daily plan, dislikes plan to be interrupted
- Shy - quiet, doesn't easily instigate a conversation
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Orderly - has a methodical, systematic arrangement of things
- Obliging - accommodating, one who is quick to do it another's way
- Outspoken - speaks frankly and without reserve
- Optimistic - sunny disposition who convinces self and others that everything will turn out all right
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Friendly - a responder rather than an initiator, seldom starts a conversation
- Faithful - consistently reliable, steadfast, loyal, and devoted sometimes beyond reason
- Funny - sparkling sense of humor that can make virtually any story into a hilarious event
- Forceful - a commanding personality whom others would hesitate to take a stand against
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Daring - willing to take risks, fearless, bold
- Delightful - upbeat and fun to be with
- Diplomatic - deals with people tactfully, sensitively, and patiently
- Detailed - does everything in proper order with a clear memory of all the things that happen
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Cheerful - consistently in good spirits and promoting happiness in others
- Consistent - stays emotionally on an even keel, responding as one might expect
- Cultured - one whose interests involve both intellectual and artistic pursuits
- Confident - self-assured and certain of own ability and success
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Idealistic - visualizes things in their perfect form, and has a need to measure up to that standard
- Independent - self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-confident, and seems to have little need of help
- Inoffensive - never says or causes anything unpleasant or objectionable
- Inspiring - encourages others to work, join, or be involved, and makes the whole thing fun
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Demonstrative - openly expresses emotion, especially affection and doesn't hesitate to touch others while speaking to them
- Decisive - a person with quick, conclusive, judgement-making ability
- Dry humor - exhibits "dry wit", usually one-liners which can be sarcastic in nature
- Deep - intense and often introspective with a distaste for surface conversation and pursuits.
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Mediator - consistently in the role of reconciling differences in order to avoid conflict
- Musical - participates in or has a deep appreciation for music, is committed to music as an art form, rather than the fun of performance
- Mover - driven by a need to be productive, is a leader whom others follow, finds it difficult to sit still
- Mixes easily - loves a party and can't wait to meet everyone in the room, never meets a stranger
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Thoughtful - a considerate person who remembers special occasions and is quick to make a kind gesture
- Tenacious - holds on firmly, stubbornly, and won't let go until the goal is accomplished
- Talker - constantly talking, generally telling funny stories and entertaining everyone around
- Tolerant - easily accepts the thoughts and ways of others without the need to disagree with or change them
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Listener - always seems wiling to hear what you have to say
- Loyal - faithful to a person, ideal, or job, sometimes beyond reason
- Leader - a natural born director, who is driven to be in charge, and often finds it difficult to believe others can do the job well
- Lively - full of life, vigorous, energetic
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Contented - easily satisfied, rarely envious
- Chief - commands leadership and expects others to follow
- Chartmaker - organizes life, tasks, and problem solving by making lists, forms, or graphs
- Cute - precious, adorable, center of attention
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Perfectionist - places high standards on self, and often others, desiring that everything be in proper order at all times
- Pleasant - easygoing, easy to be around, easy to talk with
- Productive - must constantly be working or achieving, often finds it difficult to rest
- Popular - life of the party and much desired as a party guest
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Strengths.
- Bouncy - a bubbly, lively personality, full of energy
- Bold - fearless, daring, forward, unafraid of risk
- Behaved - consistently desires to act within the realm of what is felt to be proper
- Balanced - stable, not subject to sharp highs or lows
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Blank - a person who shows little facial expression or emotion
- Bashful - shrinks from getting attention, resulting from self-consciousness
- Brassy - showy, flashy, comes on strong, too loud
- Bossy - commanding, domineering, sometimes overbearing
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Undisciplined - a person whose lack of order permeates almost every area of their life
- Unsympathetic - finds it difficult to relate to the problems or hurts of others
- Unenthusiastic - tends to not get excited
- Unforgiving - one who has difficulty forgiving or forgetting a hurt or injustice done to them
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Reticent - unwilling or struggles against getting involved
- Resentful - often holds ill feelings as a result of real or imagined offenses
- Resistant - strives, works against, or hesitates to accept any other way
- Repetitious - retells stories and incidents without realizing it has already been told several times before, constantly needs something to say
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Fussy - insistent over petty matters or details, calling for great attention to trivial details
- Fearful - often experiences feelings of deep concern, apprehension, or anxiousness
- Forgetful - lack of memory which is usually tied to a lack of discipline and not bothering to mentally record things
- Frank - straightforward, outspoken, and doesn't mind telling you their thoughts
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Impatient - a person who finds it difficult to endure irritation or wait for others
- Insecure - one who is apprehensive or lacks confidence
- Indecisive - someone who finds it difficult to make any decision at all
- Interrupts - a person who is more of a talker than a listener, who starts speaking without realizing someone else is already speaking
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Unpopular - a person whose intensity and demand for perfection can push others away
- Uninvolved - has no desire to listen or become interested in other people's lives
- Unpredictable - may be ecstatic one moment and down the next, or willing to help but then disappears, or promises to come but forgets to show up
- Unaffectionate - finds it difficult to verbally or physically demonstrate tenderness openly
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Headstrong - insists on having their own way
- Haphazard - has no consistent way of doing things
- Hard to please - a person whose standards are so high that it is difficult to ever satisfy them
- Hesitant - slow to get moving and hard to get involved
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Plain - a middle of the road personality without highs or lows and showing little, if any, emotion
- Pessimistic - generally sees the downside of a situation first
- Proud - one with great self esteem who is always right and the best person for the job
- Permissive - allows others to do as they please in order to keep from being disliked
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Angered easily - one who has a child-like temper that expresses itself in tantrum style
- Aimless - not a goal setter with little desire to be one
- Argumentative - incites arguments generally because they are right, no matter the situation
- Alienated - easily feels estranged from others, often because of insecurity or fear
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Naive-simple and childlike perspective, lacking sophistication or comprehension of deeper levels of life
- Negative attitude - one whose attitude is seldom positive and is often able to see only the down side of each situation
- Nervy - full of confidence, fortitude, and sheer guts, often in a negative sense
- Nonchalant - easygoing, unconcerned, indifferent
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Worrier - consistently feels uncertain, troubled, or anxious
- Withdrawn - someone who pulls back and needs a great deal of alone or isolation time
- Workaholic - an aggressive goal-setter who must be constantly productive
- Wants credit - thrives on the credit or approval of others
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Too sensitive - overly introspective and easily offended when misunderstood
- Tactless - sometimes expresses self in an inconsiderate and offensive way
- Timid - shrinks from difficult situations
- Talkative - an entertaining, compulsive talker who finds it difficult to listen
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Doubtful - characterized by uncertainty and lack of confidence that it will ever work out
- Disorganized - lack of ability to ever get life in order
- Domineering - compulsively takes control of situations and/or people, usually telling others what to do
- Depressed - a person who feels down much of the time
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Inconsistent - erratic, contradictory, with actions and emotions not based on logic
- Introvert - thoughts and interests are directed inward, lives within oneself
- Intolerant - appears unable to withstand or accept another's attitudes, point of view, or way of doing things
- Indifferent - a person to whom most things don't matter one way or the other
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Messy - living in a state of disorder, unable to find things
- Moody - doesn't get very high emotionally but easily slips into lows
- Mumbles - will talk quietly under the breath when pushed, doesn't bother to speak clearly
- Manipulative - influences or manages shrewdly or deviously for own advantage, will get own way somehow
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Slow - doesn't often act or think quickly
- Stubborn - determined to exert own will, not easily persuaded, obstinate
- Show-off - needs to be the center of attention, wants to be watched
- Skeptical - disbelieving, questioning the motive behind the words
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Loner - requires a lot of private time and tends to avoid other people
- Lord over others - doesn't hesitate to let you know they are right or in control
- Lazy - evaluates work or activity in terms of how much energy it will take
- Loud - a person whose laugh or voice can be heard above others in the room
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Sluggish - slow to get started, needs to push to be motivated
- Suspicious - tends to suspect or distrust others or ideas
- Short-tempered - has a demanding impatience-based anger and a short fuse. anger is expressed when others are not moving fast enough
- Scatterbrained - lacks the power of concentration or attention, flighty
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Revengeful - knowingly or otherwise holds a grudge and punishes the offender, often by subtly withholding friendship or affection
- Restless - likes constant new activity because it isn't fun to do the same things all the time
- Reluctant - unwilling or struggles against getting involved
- Rash - may act hastily, without thinking things through, generally because of impatience
Choose one word that most often applies to you regarding your Weaknesses.
- Compromising - will often relax position, even when right, in order to avoid conflict
- Critical - constantly evaluating and making judgements, frequently thinking or expressing negative reactions
- Crafty - shrewd, one who can always find a way to get to the desired end
- Changeable - a childlike, short attention span that needs a lot of change and variety to keep from getting bored

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