Understanding the "Loyal" Golden Retriever Animal Personality Type

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What is the Golden Retriever Animal Personality Type?

Golden Retriever Animal Personality Type people are warm, great listeners, incredibly empathetic, and supportive.

Golden Retrievers Characteristics

Calm approach
Relaxed posture
They are sitting or leaning when possible.

Basic Disposition

Does Their Part Cooperate with Others to Get the Job Done

Slow-paced
People-oriented
Projects-oriented

Decision Making – Relational

Makes decisions more slowly
Wants input from others
Often yields to others’ input

Motivated by

Good relationships
Appreciation of others

Basic Desires

Have no conflict, and keep the peace!
Quality relationships
Freedom to work at own pace.

Needs

They need security.
A relaxed and agreeable environment free of conflict.

Fears

Loss of Financial Security.
Loss of Emotional Security.
Sudden Change.

Strengths

Patient
Easy-going
Agreeable
Team player
Enjoys routine
Stable
Reliable
Dependable
Supportive
Empathetic
Compassionate
Sensitive to the feelings of others
Tremendously loyal
Puts people above projects
Peacemaker

Weaknesses

Indecisive
Over-accommodating
May sacrifice results for the sake of harmony
Slow to initiate
Avoids confrontation even when needed
Tends to hold grudges and remember hurts inflicted by others
Fears change
Misses opportunities
They stay in a rut
They are easily hurt

Get depressed when

Life is entirely of conflict.
They have to face a personal confrontation.
No one wants to help, and the buck stops with them.

Leadership

They keep calm, relaxed, and collected.
Don’t make impulsive decisions.
They are well-liked and inoffensive.
They won’t cause trouble.
But don’t often come up with brilliant new ideas.

Work Valuablity

They cooperate and are a calming influence, keep the peace, mediate between contentious people, and objectively solve problems.

Under Pressure or Tense Situations

Gives into the opinions, ideas, and wishes of others
Often too tolerant

Recovery

Nothing Time

Time Management

They focus on the present.
Devotes lots of time to helping others and building relationships.

Likes

People who will make decisions for them recognize their strengths, not ignore them, and give them respect.

Dislikes

People who are too loud and pushy and expect too much of them.

Advice

Learn to say no and confront.
Set goals and become self-motivated.
Be willing to do more and move faster than expected.
Face your problems as well as others.

Golden Retriever Communication Style

They are good listeners.
They provide an empathetic response.
They want you to be cooperative and pleasant.
Please provide information on how it will affect their circumstances.
Show personal interest and support their feelings.
Don’t push and move along slowly.
Show that you are listening.
Assure them that you stand behind any decisions.

Golden Retriever Personality Type cross-reference

MBTI Personality Types (xSxP) – Sensing and Perceiving

Enneagram Types

Golden Retriever Personality Type Careers

What are the Animal Personality Types?

Gary Smalley was an American family counselor and author of many books on family relationships. He characterized the Four Core Personality Temperaments as Animals, and each Animal Type describes how a person naturally responds toward others in daily life and work situations.

The Animal Personality Type does not reveal anything right or wrong about an individual. Instead, it explains how naturally you will act in ways specific to that type of Temperament.

He characterized the Choleric Temperament as Lions, the Sanguine Temperament as Otters, the Phlegmatic Temperament as Golden Retrievers, and the Melancholic Temperament as Beavers.

Personality Temperaments, Traits, and Types

Personality Temperaments, Personality Traits, and Personality Types are used in Psychology to discuss a person’s Personality, a collection of Emotions, Perceptions, and Actions that interact with each other, regulate themselves, and shape a dynamic system that forms a person’s Behavioral Patterns.

Your inherited traits (your personality Temperance) and acquired traits (such as education, socialization, and other various pressures and aspects) form your Personality.

A Personality Type identifies a specific collection of Traits, both learned and natural, that comprise a broad, general Personality Classification—a way of labeling a collection of traits and behaviors.

A Personality Trait remains consistent and stable over time, which means you exhibit the same pattern across different situations and throughout your life.

Three criteria characterize Personality Traits: (1) consistency, (2) stability, and (3) individual differences. For example, if you are talkative at home, you also tend to be talkative at work. And if you were talkative at age 20, you would still be chatty at age 40.

Personality Temperament is your “Naturally Intuitive” biological Trait. These Traits are partly inherited from your genes and partially determined by your brainstem, which doesn’t change throughout your life. These are Natural Traits regarded as innate or inborn and not learned.

Your Personality Temperament is formed as an infant and is hard to modify, manipulate, or change because it is genetic. In some way or another, your inherited behavioral tendency will always be there.

Personality Traits are quantitative differences between people, and Personality Types are qualitative differences between people. The most crucial difference between the Trait Theory and the Type Theory is that the Type Theory views people’s characteristics as discrete categories. In contrast, the Trait Theory views these characteristics as a continuum.

For example, while a Type Theorist would claim that introverts and extraverts are two types of people, a Trait Theorist claims that extraversion is a gradient, and individuals can fall somewhere in the middle.

Your Temperaments, along with acquired Traits, form your Personality.