Color influences us in much of our surroundings. It’s used in advertising, marketing,
interior decoration and even in medicine. Color is therefore essential to our experience as full
human beings.
There are several studies that show us that personality and its psychological functions
guide the way we think, act and develop certain patterns of behavior. While knowing that there
are risks and limitations associated with categorizing people, the four-color type formula, a
personality profile system created by Max Lüscher (1969), to categorize four basic learning
styles to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each personality type.
In addition to the reading of the book by the north american physician and researcher
Carol Ritberger (2009) "The Color of Your Personality", while continuing to study the
personality profiles associated with the four colors system, a number of questions were raised
and researched to identify vocational patterns in order to guide adolescents in choosing their
area of study, trying to combat school failure and demotivation that have been verified over
decades of teaching young people and adults, who, having chosen a field of study, later verify
that it was an incorrect choice, not identifying with it, and creating either demotivation school
and professional, or the need to restart the study cycle.
Therefore, a school-based survey, based on the Personality Color Indicator Test (ICP),
where the students could choose sentences designated as A, B, C and D answers, which
would determine the personality color type. This survey was conducted on 69 male and female
students (59% female and 41% male), 17 years medium age, attending each area of the 12th
year of secondary education (Science and Technology, Socioeconomic Sciences, Languages
and Humanities and Visual Arts), in the 2018/2019 school year. The inquiry was part of the
research under the master’s degree that the researcher is conducting, to complete her
professional teacher training.
This study aimed to delineate the differences in the vocational standards of students
who choose different areas of study, aiming to provide them with a reliable vocational guidance
and encourage the motivation and their personal fulfillment. The aim of the study was also to
provide a better understanding of the students' profile in each area and become a structural
tool for how students are approached and led, to explore their natural talents, strengths and
abilities, through psychotechnical tests performed at the beginning of secondary school cycle.
We have tried with this research to build valuable knowledge regarding the understanding of
differences between students, and to further identify the needs of specific pedagogical
resources required for excellent learning in arts education at primary and secondary levels. In the empirical part it was possible to verify the differences and similarities between
groups of different study areas, being young students of the same age group, such as, the
possibility to have a closer view of the personality profiles of adolescent students in the various
school areas, as well as some of their ethical and moral values, motivations, among other
characteristics, although this study is a small sample of the national overview.
Conclusively, a comparison was made between area classes, so that it would be
possible to observe and analyze more clearly the differences in personality profiles among the
young students of the four study areas. It was verified that the four classes had a majority of
green personality profiles, while the Languages and Humanities and Socioeconomic Sciences
classes had values close to orange personality profiles and, the Science and Technology and
Visual Arts classes had the same profile values of yellow personality color. The red color
personality profile was verified in all classes, showing the same value for all, except for the
class of Socioeconomic Sciences, which revealed a lower value of this personality type.