Throughout my childhood and now my adulthood I have always seen myself as an individual that has a pretty decent temperament level. That was until I took the Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale, which changed my perspective of how I view my temperament. This scale analyzed my temperament based on three levels: activity, emotionality, and sociability. The emotionality scale is composed of three subcomponents, which are Distress, Fearful and Anger. Within this paper I will further explain my temperament scale scores based on Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale.
My activity based on the Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale was a 16, which is relatively high based on the women’s average. This seems very accurate in relation to my adult life because I tend to always have a full schedule, and constantly trying to find more things to do. However, I’ve always been highly active even in my childhood because I would always want to play …show more content…
This temperament has definitely increased over time in my adulthood compared to my childhood. As a child I had no worries and was ultimately carefree, but as an adult I have more responsibility. However, I believe my anger increased once I started driving because of traffic, and bad drivers. Also working is another contributor to my increased anger mainly because working with customers can bring out the inner anger in you.
Distress was an interesting temperament because I had a seemingly higher score than the average women’s score. Being that my parents were divorced when I was younger, seeing a high score didn’t shock me. Even now into adulthood after experiencing the usual life painful events such as failures, deaths, and heat ache has in my opinion increased my distress level. Distress is definitely a temperament that is based on nurture because of all the situations I encountered throughout life that evoked