True Colors (personality)

True Colors is a personality profiling system created by Don Lowry in 1979.[1] It was originally created to categorize four basic learning styles using the colors blue, orange, gold and green to identify the strengths and challenges of these core personality types.[2] According to this personality temperament theory, which is a refined version of the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, everyone's personality consists of a combination of all four colors, with the dominant two colors representing the core of a person's personality temperament.[3] In general, green personality types are independent thinkers, gold personality types are pragmatic planners, orange personality types are very action-oriented, and blue personality types are very people-oriented.[4] The idea behind True Colors is that it does not pigeonhole people into one personality type over another with the understanding that one's personality might make adjustments based on his or her environment or associations. True Colors is a way to understand the behaviors and motivations of others relative to our own personalities to help mitigate potential conflict by learning to recognize personality differences and characteristics.[5]

Erica W. Lowry, Author of "The Color Guide to Life",[6] has released the most recent version of the "True Colors" method including a contemporary, new assessment that factors 24 personality types.[7]

Scientific basis

In one study done of the True Colors system,[8] Judith Whichard found content validity with standard personality measures. Furthermore subjects rated the predictions that are made about them by True Colors as accurate. Subjects retested after a 30- to 50-day delay were given the same classification ~95% of the time. However, the research was performed by an 11-year True Colors Certified Trainer, the research was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, and there are no published replications. True Colors has not been validated by independent, unaffiliated research.

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Gale H. & Kuzmich, Lin. (2007). Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities. Corwin Press.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Gale H. (2005). Differentiating Instruction With Style: Aligning Teacher and Learner Intelligences for Maximum Achievement. Corwin Press.
  3. ↑ Thomsen, Kate. (2002). Building Resilient Students: Integrating Resiliency Into What You Already Know and Do. Corwin Press.
  4. ↑ Shuttleworth, Dale Edwin (1993). Enterprise Learning in Action: Education and Economic Renewal for the Twenty-First Century. Psychology Press.
  5. ↑ DiTullio, Lisa. (2011). Project Team Dynamics: Enhancing Performance, Improving Results'. Management Concepts.
  6. ↑ Lowry, Erica (2014). The Color Guide To Life: Know & Live Your True Self. USA: Don Lowry International. ISBN 978-0-9905304-0-4.
  7. ↑ Lowry, Erica. "Welcome to True Colors 24 | True Colors 24". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  8. ↑ Whichard, Judith A. (2006). Reliability and Validity of True Colors
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