Relationship between Temperament and Personality

The present study is an attempt towards examine the pattern of relationship between temperament and personality the sample comprised of 200 subject (100 boys & 100 girls) with age range from 13 to 17 years. The subjects were drawn randomly from four schools of kurukshetra district in Haryana. The subjects were administered Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 P.F.) developed by Cattell, Saunders and Stice (1966) to provide almost complete coverage to Personality in a brief time and Pavlovian Temperament Survey, originally the scale has been developed by Strelau et. al (1990) in English. In order to develop Indian version of the scale kaistha (1995) performed item analysis on original 252 item pool translated in Hindi. Finally, a total of 63 items used. Results of the study revealed that the correlation between temperament traits and personality factors indicate that these two constructs share very little in common with each other.