Information generated by comparing the 16 MBTI personality types with their learning styles vis-a-vis comparing the
four temperaments with their learning styles, are analyzed using scatter diagrams to illustrate different coefficient correlation of the 16 personality types and their ILS scores.
For the full sample,
four Temperament facets were extracted in accordance with the "eigenvalue one" criteria, explaining 61.61 % of the total variance (Factor 1: 23.47%, Factor 2: 16.05%, Factor 3: 14.54%, Factor 4: 7.55%).
The relationship between the four humors and the psychological play of feelings and desires is only analogical, yet Kant adheres to the symmetrical division of the
four temperaments without authorizing their designation according to chemical blood mixture.
(6.) The core needs of each of the
four temperaments are as follows: (1) the Artisan-needs the freedom to act on impulse and values the ability to make an impact (Keirsey 33); (2) the Guardian--needs membership and belonging and values responsibility and duty (Keirsey 56); (3) the Idealist--needs meaning and significance and values unique identity (Keirsey 91); and (4) the Rational--needs mastery and self-control and values knowledge and competence (Keirsey 79).
After all this, the suite-like
Four Temperaments Symphony no.2 impressed only superficially, evoking memories of Bruckner and Elgar when we should have been Nielsening.
This is of course a vast field and Kemp divides his analysis into three parts: the paradigms of the constitution of our bodies that persisted from classical antiquity based on the
four temperaments, which led to the attribution of animal equivalents to each temperament; the idea of humans and animals as functioning machines and the question of whether animals had consciousness or souls; and finally, the blurring of the boundaries between the human and the animal, with particular reference to the theory of evolution.
From the days of Hippocrates and his division of people into four humours and Galen's
four temperaments, philosophers and theorists have tried to put us into boxes--usually four!
However, he carries conviction when he identifies the four drinkers (at least in the revised version of Goethe's text) as representing each of the
four temperaments of humoral psychology.
The instrument has 93 dichotomous items (forced choice) and the scoring process involves the allocation of unique codes for individual data sets resulting in each participant being assigned to one of 16 personality types and one of
four temperaments. The internal consistency of Form M has been demonstrated with alpha coefficients exceeding .90 for all
four temperaments (Myers & Myers, 1998).
Many of the nuances of Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine's signature 1946 ballet The
Four Temperaments are lost, even in current performances by the company he founded, the New York City Ballet.
The
Four Temperaments system of classification is built upon the balance of the Four Elements.
As in her first novel, The
Four Temperaments (2002)--which, among other things, also concerns adultery and its corrosive effects upon a marriage--McDonough here skillfully devotes each chapter to the perspective of a different character, thus clarifying each individual's motivations so that no one is demonized for his or her actions.