a classic method of diagnosing the type of personality accentuation, developed by the German psychologist Hans Schmishek in 1970. The theoretical basis of the questionnaire is the concept of “accentuated personalities” by the outstanding psychiatrist Karl Leonhard, according to which it is possible to identify the main personality traits that make up its core, determine development, adaptation processes, and mental health. With significant pronouncement, these traits characterize the personality as a whole. Accentuated are individuals whose main features are pronounced; They should not be considered as pathological – a case of “sharpening” of certain features inherent in each person.
Leonhard identified 10 types of accentuated personalities, which are quite arbitrarily divided into two groups: character accentuations (demonstrative, pedantic, stuck, excitable) and temperament accentuations (hyperthymic, dysthymic, anxious-fearful, cyclothymic, affective-exalted, emotive).