Describing Your Personality and Temperament
The adult who leads activities with a child plays a role in influencing the outcomes of Play For Success activities. At this point in time we do not know how much of an influence or in what ways the adult's personality and temperament may affect the outcome of the activity.
To help us investigate this question we would like you to consider assessing your personality and temperament. There are a number of resources for doing this. On this page we provide links to files describing various inventories and to on-line assessment tools that you can use. After you visit one of these links, please use the "BACK" button on your browser to return to this page.
Some of these inventories have a tradition of research underlying them. Others do not. By listing these inventories here we are not making any claims for their usefulness, reliability, or validity. Nonetheless, you may want to check them out and see whether any of them help you to better understand an aspect of yourself that may impact the way you lead these activities with a child.
This is a link to
Team Technology which provides information about the Myers-Briggs Type indicator. This site has additional information and links about the Myers-Briggs inventory.Another related instrument that has bee used is the
Kiersey Temperament Sorter. This link takes you to a site where you can do an on-line assessment of your temperament using this insturment.Here is a link that allows you to assess whether you are a
Type-A or Type-B personalityHere's a link to take Dan Goleman's
Emotional Intelligence Scale on-line.Take a variation of the
Locus of Control ScaleTake the
Platinum Rule Behavioral Style questionnaire.This site claims to have a way to measure
visual preferences (this is just for fun, not anything of real significance).