Personality Dimensions®
四色气质测评
Personality Dimensions® is a temperament self-assessment developed in Canada. It describes people’s preferences with four colors (green, gold, blue, and orange) and draws mainly on the temperament theories of David Keirsey and Linda Berens.[1]
What it draws on: Keirsey’s four temperaments, each matched to an MBTI letter pair
- Artisan SP
- Guardian SJ
- Idealist NF
- Rational NT
Colors and temperaments are listed separately; their order does not pair them up.
A ring split into four quarters: green at the top, labeled Inquiring Green; gold on the right, Organized Gold; blue at the bottom, Authentic Blue; orange on the left, Resourceful Orange. The center reads “Four temperaments.” Below, Keirsey’s four temperaments with their MBTI letter pairs: Artisan SP, Guardian SJ, Idealist NF, Rational NT, with a note that their order does not pair them with the colors.
Save as image (PNG) Key points
- Each of the four color names pairs an adjective with a color (Inquiring Green, Organized Gold, Authentic Blue and Resourceful Orange), and each stands for one temperament.[1]
- It draws on Keirsey’s four temperaments, Artisan, Guardian, Idealist and Rational, which correspond to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) letter pairs SP, SJ, NF and NT.[1][2]
- Besides the four temperaments, it borrows Jung’s distinction between introversion and extraversion; the publisher says the tool was developed in Canada over five years.[1]
An example
At a team workshop, Jay scores the four colors and comes out highest on Organized Gold and lowest on Resourceful Orange. The group uses the results to talk about preferred working styles, not to judge who is better at the job.
Misreadings and limits
The colors should not be treated as a validated classification. One study noted that the related Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS-II) had no published reliability statistics, and its authors doubted that such inventories can reliably match people to fields of study.[2]
Sources
- 1 Career/LifeSkills Resources Inc. (2015). History of Personality Dimensions®. Personality Dimensions (republished from the Personality Dimensions Manual, 2nd ed.). View source
- 2 Neal, G. A., & Neal, J. G. (2009). Assessment of Keirsey personality temperaments among aerospace electronics students. International Journal of Aviation Research, 3(1). View source
Last checked against sources: October 26, 2026