- Endomorph
- Individuals are classified to be temperamentally viseratonic
- Persons love pleasure, greedy, sleep soundly and are comfort-seeking
- Sociable and are greatly interested in seeking affection
- Mesomorph
- Individuals are healthy and muscular
- Assertive and aggressive
- Love adventure
- Ectomorph
- Idealistic, strict, sensitive and avoids social contacts
Attitudes or behavioral type
Carl Jung proposed 2 major attitudes or orientations of personality
- Extroverts – men of action, outspoken and socially oriented
- Introverts – loners, who look flexible and appear pre-occupied. Avoid social contact
- subdivided introversion and extroversion according to relative dominance of 4 psychological functions
- Thinking
- Psychological function w/c is ideal and intellectual and is concerned w/ facts
- Human beings try to comprehend the nature of the world and themselves
- feeling
- evaluation function
- it is the value of things, whether positive or negative w/ reference to the subject
- it gives humans their subjective experiences of pleasure and pain, of anger, fear, sorrow and love
- sensation
- perceptual or reality function
- intuition
- perception by way of unconscious process
- intuitive person goes beyond facts, feelings and ideas
Theory based on body chemistry
Hippocrates (400 BC) and Galen (167 AD) categorized individuals into different temperaments and humors (fluids) of the body
Temperaments Humors
Choleric person – (quick, strong) is easily angered, quick to react, yellow bile
He is serious, easily provoked and aggressive
when he fails
Sanguine – (quick, weak) person is pleasant, warm-hearted, has Blood
a prominence of blood. He looks alive and is
very optimistic
Melancholic – (slow, strong) person suffers from depression and black bile
sadness because of having too much black bile.
He is very pessimistic
Phlegmatic – (slow, weak) is listless and slow. He is unexcitable phlegm
and calm, attributed to the phlegm. He is cautious and
thinks twice before doing anything
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