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As parents we often observe certain personality traits, but without guidance it may be difficult to articulate these traits, or even identify them specifically. This is a list of personality traits you can use it to guide observations of your younger child. It's also a great starting point for discussions with older children. I adapted the list from here, where it is used in conjunction with other questions as part of a career path exploration.
See Also: How To Understand and Support Your Child's Core Personality
Honesty: Having integrity and keeping one's promise.
Courtesy: Being thoughtful of others.
Responsibility: Being accountable for duties and following through with your duties.
Compatibility: Being in harmony with others and having the ability to work well with others.
Loyalty: Showing devotion to people and/or things.
Enthusiasm: Having a strong affinity towards and eagerness/ willingness to work with others or things.
Open-mindedness: Being receptive and interested in the opinions and ideas of others.
Self-Control: Controlling your own actions and feelings.
Influence: Motivating or encouraging others.
Initiative: Starting thoughts and/or actions.
Adaptability: Making changes when necessary.
Industriousness: Being consistently active and getting work done.
Carefulness: Giving watchful attention to people and/or things and doing things properly.
Self-Reliance: Having trust in one's self to doing things independently and feel confident about them.
Compassion: Having sympathy and feelings for people with problems.
Dedication: Being seriously devoted to causes and/or goals.
Competitiveness: Striving to win.
Patience: Being able to wait and taking time to do things.
Perfectionism: Trying to achieve the highest possible degree of excellence.
Courage: Meeting danger or difficulties in spite of fear.
Decisiveness: Making decisions promptly and definitely.
Drive: Having the energy to get things done.
Perseverance: Being persistent in pursuit of tasks.
Calmness: Being serene.
Stability: Being constant in responses.
Help Society: Do something to contribute to the betterment of the world.
Help Others: Involved in helping other people in a direct way, either individually or in small groups.
Public Contact: Have a lot of day-to-day contact with people.
Work with Others: Have close working relationships with a group, work as a team toward common goals.
Affiliation: Be recognized as a member of a particular organization.
Friendships: Develop close personal relationships with people.
Competition: Engage in activities that pit abilities against others where there are clear win-and-lose outcomes.
Make Decisions: Have the power to decide courses of action, policies, etc. (Leading other children in play.)
Work under Pressure: Work in situations where time pressure is prevalent and/or the quality of my work is judged critically by parents, teachers, or others. (Tests well.)
Influence People: Be in a position to change attitudes or opinions of other people.
Work Alone: Does projects independently, without any significant amount of contact with others.
Knowledge: Engage myself in the pursuit of knowledge, truth and understanding.
Artistic Creativity: Engage in creative work in any of several art forms.
Aesthetics: Notices the beauty of things, ideas, etc.
Stability: Prefers a routine that is largely predictable and not likely to change over a long period of time.
Recognition: Be recognized in some visible or public way.
Excitement: Experience a high degree of (or frequent) excitement.
Adventure: Enjoy frequent risk-taking.
Profit, Gain: Interest in accumulating money or other material gain.
Independence: Be able to determine the nature of my work without significant direction from others; not have to do what others tell me.
Moral Fulfillment: Wants to contribute significantly to a set of moral standards.
Physical Challenge: Enjoys physical challenges.
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This is a great list!
I have nothing more to add , all in the list are really great. I will copy paste it in order that I could always read it over and over.
thank you. this is very helpful indeed.
Lots of task to do then. LOL
Nice list!
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An excellent list here - great reading.
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Enjoy!
Excellent list of personality traits. Which are the preferential traits? Are they ranked as per relevance or all have same relevance?
No, no ranking - just lots of good traits!
The personalities of children emerge much sooner than one would think. I had 4 girls, raised them all 'the same' basically and they all turned out completely different. Parents should always be on the lookout and allow children to embrace the personality they were meant to have.
Fabulous list, I can use it to my next class as part of our topic "PERSONALITY TRAITS"
A very good list of things for parents to work on. I'll be bookmarking this in a jifty!
Great hub :)
I like your list a lot. It's bookmarked to be shared with my husband.
Great list, too bad I didn't have it when my children were little. I can say though that they do possess many of these traits. So I guess I did some thing right.
This is bettter than Dr. Phil and Dr. Spock :)
What a lovely and thoughtful list.
Seems like you got them all! Thank you. It's amazing how every kid you have either your own or in the classroom can be SO different.
Nice list. A great help for parents like me.
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This list will help others alot with personal traits. I have discover some things about myself that i didn't know about.
This list has help alot of people. This list have even help me
its a fact, children inherit the properties from their parents so why we people first look ourselves and list out all the things that our child can have of us. In this way we can easily find out child behaviour, instead lof looking for the top features listed by my dear friend...
This saved my life
Love this list! I'll be referencing it for my little girl. Thanks!
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As you've already heard, you've compiled a complete and outstanding list!
Very nice list and thanks for sharing! It takes a lot of work to raise your children but the best way is to balance love and discipline so that your child knows you have their best interest in mind.
wow this made me think of some things i would have never thought of
this list is incredible, i used to have low self-esteem and thought that i didn't like myself, that i wasn't good enough, this list helped me a lot. Thank You.
Thanks for the list, i have wanted to a way to help my child grow a little more, and Jillian has suggested a good way to use it, telling her she's a good child isn't really the best way forward, and this will help.
Thanks for the list. It is indeed very helpful.
I don't want to say "great list" or "thanks for the list" like everybody else, but I would like to say thank you for the help that this list has been for a school project I am working on. I am in grade 8 and we are doing a character study; I found this list great in helping me find words to describe my oterwise non-describable character. Thanks!!
It was difficult at first when my child was so opposite of what I was as a kid. But you eventually learn to love how they are like you but yet their own person.
Great list i actually was using it to describe the type of qualities i want in a guy lol...YAY for single people
Great list! This will come in handy and helpful in the near future.
Very good and school counsellors should have access to it!
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this is fabulous" wonderful
great list
helped alot with work
great list
helped alot with work
this list helped me on my home work
thanke you i gat an A+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know this list was meant to help parents, but I am only in grade seven and i enjoy writing stories, so i'm not a parent. to young for that. I have writen some stories and when reading over them, i noticed that my characters didn't have personalities other than, good, evil, innocent(mostly children who didn't know about evil things) or love struck. your list has helped me develope my characters and lengthen my stories into book length novels. I made a chart of the character names and then listed the traits from your list under the people it would fit. It made it alot easier to incorperate the traits into the stories, create much more complete stories and well rounded characters. So thanks, you really helped me alot.
Thanks .This is a great list , it really help me out in my personality development . I would love to share this with my family &friends.
Anyone pathetic enough to need a list to tell them about their own children does not deserve the fertility that was given to them.
Worst list ever.
I think it helps to know this lists.
i love this list at the momment...
i had to answer a question in a application " what is the most unique personallity trait you will bring?"
this helped me a lot.....
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i love this list at the momment...
i had to answer a question in a application " what is the most unique personallity trait you will bring?"
this helped me a lot.....
thankyou trait list
Hannah says:
5 days ago
yourrrr a friggen legend! this list made my day
luvv
xxxxx
amazing list I looked only for 1 minute and I found it
this was very helpful thanks
it didnt help me at all sorryy:(
jajaja i love pankakess jajaja just trying to be gufyy:P
Only took minute to find what I was looking for
thanks(:
I looooooove this list. So amazing!
I am learning Spanish and need to know personality traits so as to use the verb "ser" correctly. Your list will be most helpful. Thanks so much. Elayne
Awesome list.Thakns
well, its a wounderful list but if u can also add one personality with one trait, it would be great....
Thanks.
WOW! Thank you so much for the list. This can be my guide in determining traits of my co-workers
it is great, i really like to follow all these traits to grow in my life. thanks for giving me an opportunity to know about how one should groom up in life.
Jillian Snow says:
2 years ago
Very nice list - my husband and I were just talking about new ways to describe our children's traits to them. It becomes worthless telling them "you are a great person", how much better to let them know "they are a loyal, enthusiastic person" and that we greatly appreciate their Industriousness. That should spark some conversation about who they really are and who they want to grow into.