Personality Plus: A Personality Profile, developed by Fred and Florence Littauer, helps you better understand how God uniquely wired your temperament and how that shapes how you relate to others, handle tasks, and respond to life.

It identifies four core personality types—Popular Sanguine, Perfect Melancholy, Powerful Choleric, and Peaceful Phlegmatic—and shows how each has unique strengths and potential struggles.

By discovering your primary and secondary temperaments, you can:

Gain insight into how you serve and lead best
Improve communication and teamwork
Recognize and grow in areas of personal development
Appreciate the God-given differences in others

This profile is especially helpful for building grace-filled, productive relationships in the body of Christ and understanding how your personality complements your spiritual gifts, abilities, and passions.

In the Personality Plus model, each of the four temperaments has distinct primary emotional needs—the things they seek or thrive on in relationships and environments. Understanding these needs helps people communicate more effectively and extend grace to each other. Here’s a summary of the primary emotional needs for each temperament:

Popular Sanguine (The Talker / The Extrovert)

Core Traits: Fun-loving, outgoing, expressive, people-oriented
Primary Needs:

Attention – They feel valued when others listen and engage with them.
Affection – They thrive on warmth, physical touch, smiles, and positive energy.
Approval – They need affirmation that they are liked and appreciated.

Perfect Melancholy (The Thinker / The Analyzer)

Core Traits: Driven, confident, take-charge, goal-oriented
Primary Needs:

Order – They feel secure in structured, predictable environments.
Sensitivity – They want to be understood emotionally and treated with gentleness.
Support for Standards – They need space to pursue excellence and depth.

Powerful Choleric (The Leader / The Doer)

Core Traits: Thoughtful, sensitive, detail-oriented, analytical
Primary Needs:

Achievement – They need goals, challenges, and recognition for getting things done.
Control – They feel safe and effective when they have influence over their environment.

o Appreciation for Competence – They want to be respected for their decisions and strength.

Peaceful Phlegmatic (The Peacemaker / The Relational One)

Core Traits: Calm, steady, agreeable, loyal
Primary Needs:

Peace – They seek calm and avoid conflict whenever possible.
Respect – They need to feel that their quiet presence matters.
Emotional Safety – They thrive when not pressured or overwhelmed.