These are constitutional source traits that explains the effectiveness of someone’s actions.

Ability Traits

These are constitutional source traits that are specific to one’s own personal way of going about tasks. This is about their own style instead about their success rate. 

Temperament Traits 

-	These traits are about people’s motivations for doing certain actions. There are three different types of dynamic traits:
o	Erg
o	Sentiment
o	Attitude


Dynamic Traits

These are traits that are the underlying contributions to surface traits. They are explained and are causative.

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-	Surface traits
-	Source trait
              - Ability traits
              - Temperament traits
              - Dynamic traits


Cattell’s Certain Types of Traits

Olson, Matthew H., et al. An Introduction to Theories of Personality. 9th ed., Pearson, 2020. 

Reference

Surface traits are observable traits that are caused by source traits. They are very small factors in comparison to other traits and are only observed.

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