Stanley Renshon, like James David Barber, has attempted to develop a conceptual structure for assessing the personalities of presidential candidates.
The three dimensions he identifies as central to presidential personality are:
- Ambition - The domain of a person's aspirations and the skills that he or she has developed to realize them.
- Integrity - The domain of a person's ideals and values: the moral, ethical, and motivational principles that provide a true-to-self compass through choices. In other words, what he stands for and his capacity to sustain his fidelity to it.
- Relatedness - The domain of interpersonal relationships: the nature and quality of his relationship with others.