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32. CHARACTERISTICS OF TEMPERAMENT ACCORDING TO W. SHELDON

Quite strict connections between morphology and temperament were described by W. Sheldon (1942). The work was performed at a different methodological level and deserves greater confidence. When describing temperament, the author did not use a discrete type, but components, just as was done in his constitutional system: 50 traits were divided by W. Sheldon into three categories, on the basis of which he identified three components of temperament, each of which was characterized by 12 traits . Each feature was assessed on a seven-point scale, and the average score for 12 features determined the entire component (the analogy with the constitutional system is obvious here). Sheldon identified three components of temperament: viscerotonia, somatotonia and cerebrotonia. Having examined 200 subjects, Sheldon compared them with data on somatotypes. While individual somatic and “mental” signs showed a weak relationship, constitutional types showed a high association with certain types of temperament. The author obtained a correlation coefficient of about 0,8 between viscerotonia and endomorphia, somatotonia and cerebrotonia, cerebrotonia and ectomorphia.

People with a viscerotonic temperament are characterized by relaxed movements, sociability, and, in many ways, psychological dependence on public opinion. They are open to others in their thoughts, feelings and actions and most often, according to W. Sheldon, have an endomorphic constitutional type.

Somatotonic temperament is characterized primarily by energy, some coldness in communication, and a tendency to adventure. Although sufficiently sociable, people of this type are secretive in their feelings and emotions. Sheldon obtained a significant connection between somatotonic temperament and mesomorphic constitutional type.

Continuing the trend towards decreased sociability, the cerebrotonic temperament is characterized by secrecy in actions and emotions, a craving for loneliness, and constraint in communicating with other people. According to Sheldon, such people most often have an ectomorphic constitutional type.

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