Abstract
Temperament is said to be more functionally related to behavior then the structural
view of personality. This research describes an attempt to develop a temperament
scale for the use of clinical and research with student population. In Phase I,
different temperaments were elicited from 40 university students (20 males and
20females). Phase II comprised the expert validation of final collated list of 60
items. After pilot study, 441 university students (M 20.91, SD 1.83) were given
Student Temperament Scale (STS) and Big Five Inventory (BFI, Benet-Martinez &
John, 1998). The exploratory factor analysis produced six factors namely
Apprehension, Impulsivity, Cautiousness, Introversion, Submissiveness and
Extroversion. The scale had high face, construct, and concurrent validity along with
high test retest reliability scores and internal consistency. The results are discussed
in cultural implication of temperament in student counseling service.
