Leslie Knope Character Analysis

Leslie Knope is the daughter of Marlene Griggs-Knope, who is a politician within the school system of Pawnee, Indiana. Leslie’s father is an unknown character, due to him being deceased throughout the entire series of Parks and Recreation. Leslie works for the parks department in Pawnee, Indiana, where she is trying to better the city with her multiple projects. Leslie has aspired to hold political office from a young age and wants to be president of the United States.

Temperaments are inherited personality traits, which I will use to analyze
Leslie Knope. Temperaments have three dimensions: activity level, sociability, and emotionality. There are also approach and avoidance temperaments, which relate to tendencies of approaching
Conscientiousness is negatively correlated with the temperament of impulsivity. Leslie Knope ranks low within the impulsivity temperament, and ranks high in conscientiousness. Extraversion is strongly correlated with sociability and somewhat correlated with activity. Leslie is high in all three of these. Of the big five, agreeableness is mildly correlated with sociability as well. Leslie is in the middle of agreeableness, and is high in sociability, so you can see the smaller correlation between the two.

Mentioned before, temperaments are genetically inherited. So, if you look at Leslie's parents you should be able to see the similarities. We only know about Leslie's mom, Marlene, so if we compare Leslie's to her, we should see some similarities between the two. I would say that Marlene is high in activity level, low in sociability, and in the middle for emotionality. Leslie possibly inherited her high activity level from her mom, and you can guess that she inherited her sociability and emotionality from her dad. Looking at the more recent temperaments, I believe Marlene would be low in impulsivity and in the middle for intelligence, which are the same as