Constitutional approach to personality

  • What are the three types of personality according to Sheldon?

    While studying criminology, Sheldon declared that there were three basic body types that correlated with personalities: the ectomorph, a skinny, scared and shy person; the endomorph, a round, happy and genial person; and the mesomorph, a muscular, outgoing and often attractive person..

  • What is the constitution of personality?

    1. the sum of an individual's innate characteristics.
    2more broadly, the basic psychological and physical makeup of an individual, due partly to heredity and partly to life experience and environmental factors..

  • What is the constitutional theory of psychology?

    Constitutional psychology is a theory developed by Sheldon in the 1940s, which attempted to associate his somatotype classifications with human temperament types.
    The foundation of these ideas originated with Francis Galton and eugenics..

  • He later used this classification system to explain delinquent behaviour, finding that delinquents were likely to be high in mesomorphy and low in ectomorphy and arguing that mesomorphy's associated temperaments (active and aggressive but lacking sensitivity and inhibition) tend to cause delinquency and criminal
Sheldon's constitutional theory, also known as somatotyping, proposed that human body types are linked to different personality traits and temperaments. Sheldon's theory was based on the idea that the human body can be classified into three basic types, or somatotypes: endomorphs, mesomorphs, and ectomorphs.

Are personality traits heritable?

These findings suggest the heritability of some personality traits

Heritability refers to the proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics


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