Definition
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II (KTS II) is a personality test developed by David Keirsey (1921–2013) that measures psychological type through the lens of four temperaments that Keirsey termed Artisan, Guardian, Idealist, and Rationalist. The KTS II consists of 70 forced choice questions. Twenty questions are employed to measure each of the dichotomous pairs of Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving, and the remaining ten questions measure Introversion and Extraversion.
Introduction
Keirsey traced the roots of his temperament theory to the classical theory of humorism as developed by the Greek philosopher Hippocrates and which was later modified by the Greek physician Claudius Galenus (Galen). In time the idea of the four bodily humors, or fluids, was mirrored in the development of a theory of four temperaments: Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, and Phlegmatic.
Although informed by the theories of classical antiquity, Keirsey saw a tradition of...
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Robbins, M., Ross, C. (2017). Keirsey Temperament Sorter. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_44-1
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