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Personality: broadband models

Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

KTS / KTS-II

What it measures
Four temperaments (Artisan/SP, Guardian/SJ, Rational/NT, Idealist/NF) mapping to the same 16 types as the MBTI
Length and format
70 (KTS-II) forced-choice items. Forced-choice (A/B, two-option) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into 18-20+ languages; long history of international web administration
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Keirsey, D. (1998). Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence. Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis.

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