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Ask any cat person to describe their feline friend, and they'll likely affectionately say "jerkface". Cat people also know, however, that each little fuzzy jerkface is its very own idiosyncratic self.

如果让猫主人描述自家的猫，他们可能会亲昵地称之为“小讨厌”。但是，猫主人也知道，每只毛茸茸的小讨厌猫都有自己的个性。

According to new research, each cat's personality and behavior can be defined using a combination of just seven traits.

新研究指出，按照个性和行为特征可以把猫分为7种类型。

The research was undertaken by way of a 138-question survey, posted on animal welfare website Petsofi, and filled out by the cats' owners. This is because cats can behave very differently in a laboratory environment than the way they behave at home, so observing them in an experiment could yield inaccurate results.

研究人员通过一份138道题的问卷展开调查，这份问卷发布在动物福利网站Petsofi上并由猫主人来填写。因为猫在实验室环境中和在家中的行为方式差异很大，所以在实验室中观察猫可能会得出不准确的结果。

The questionnaire asked people to enter, among other things, their cat's sex, age, breed, coat color, and main activity. The humans were also asked to fill out the questionnaire a second time after an interval had passed. This allowed the researchers to gauge the accuracy of the reports by comparing the two surveys.

问卷上要求填写猫的性别、年龄、品种、毛色和主要活动等信息。研究人员隔了一段时间后请猫主人再次填写了同样的问卷。这让研究人员可以通过比较两次调查结果来判断报告的准确度。

The final sample consisted of 4,316 cats. From these, the researchers were able to narrow cat traits down to five personality traits and two behavioral traits. 

最终样本涵盖了4316只猫。通过这些样本，研究人员得以将猫的性格类型缩减至7种——5种个性特征和2种行为特征。

这些特征分别是：

Activity/playfulness
活泼好动型
 
Fearfulness
胆小懦弱型
 
Aggression towards humans
敌视人类型
 
Sociability towards humans
与人交好型
 
Sociability towards cats
与猫交好型
 
Litterbox issues (such as refusing to use the litterbox, or using it poorly)
邋遢型（比如不愿在猫砂盆里排便，或将排泄物弄得到处都是）
 
Excessive grooming
臭美型

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the results also revealed that different breeds skew towards different personality traits.

结果还揭示，不同品种的猫倾向于拥有不同的性格特征，这也许并不令人意外。