Category A: Introversion/Extraversion
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are are moderately active and don't mind doing activities if they are not too demanding. You are unlikely to be fanatic or obsessive in your behavior, but on the other hand, you may procrastinate or put things off if any doubts or fears are involved.
2. Sociability (Norm=16) Your Score: 5
Your Score is in the Low Range
You may prefer to have only a few special friends (who are like you) and you most enjoy doing things on your own. You tend to be self-conscious and worry about finding things to talk about with other people. Though you may feel content enough, you may seem to others to be introverted and, possibly, unfriendly. You have probably had frustrating or humiliating experiences in the past when trying to communicate and so you avoid risking a repetition. You may justify this with a consideration that others are unintelligent or trivial, further solidifying your inhibition. Or you may simply feel that you have better things to do!
3. Risk-Taking (Norm=15) Your Score: 13
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are prepared to take risks but only for a very good reason and if the danger is minimal.
4. Impulsiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Low Range
You consider matters very carefully before making a decision. Liking things to be under your control, you are systematic, orderly, cautious and take your responsibilities seriously. As with other introvert traits, you may lack spontaneity and be limited by your fears of things going wrong.
5. Expressiveness (Norm=11) Your Score: 4
Your Score is in the Low Range
Your reluctance to express your emotions outwardly and openly - whether love, hate, sorrow, anger or fear - is characteristic of introversion. You may inhibit the expression of your thoughts and feelings, and try to bury upsets in the past, leaving yourself frustrated and unheard.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 19
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You tend to give matters due consideration before you commit yourself. You'll look at the pros and cons - but not obsessively so; you can make a decision in good time and act on it.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 22
Your Score is in the High Range
Responsibility is a trait that leans somewhat towards introversion. You are likely to be conscientious (even compulsively so), reliable, trustworthy and serious-minded. While many extraverts portray a person who is confident and responsible, this may be misleading... an element of introversion in the area of responsibility serves as a valuable balance.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 2
Your Score is in the Low Range
Lack of self esteem, or "inferiority complex," is a trait of emotional instability or neuroticism. A low score indicates you have a low opinion of yourself and tend to project that opinion into other peoples' minds so that you then assume that others consider you unattractive or incapable. This makes you self-conscious and inhibited. Such "mind-reading" needs to be disputed. It will help you to recover self-esteem by recognizing all of your achievements and the ways you are capable and competent.
9. Happiness (Norm=18) Your Score: 5
Your Score is in the Low Range
You tend to be pessimistic, and you do not automatically see the world through 'rose coloured spectacles'. You may want to change certain aspects of your life - perhaps even fundamental ones - and you may be more aware of world problems than others.
You may have a tendency to blame others rather than take responsibility for your own choices in life. It may be possible to break free from mild depression by clarifying or revising your purpose in life, and perhaps change your environment if particular people have a suppressive effect on your motivation and confidence.
Chronic severe depression and manic depression (also known as bipolar, with dramatic ups and downs that can't be controlled) require psychiatric (medical) help to resolve.
10. Anxiety (Norm=15) Your Score: 28
Your Score is in the High Range
Anxious persons are easily upset when things go slightly wrong and are inclined to worry unnecessarily about what may or may not happen. They are ruled by fears and suffer a high level of stress. When anxieties are exaggerated or irrational, emotions become unstable and may develop into neurotic compulsions or phobias.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 24
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score on this trait indicates that you are careful, conscientious, and highly disciplined - but you may also be staid, finicky and easily irritated by things that are unclean, untidy or disorganized. Obsessiveness is driven by "That must never happen again", so it rules out adventure and spontaneity. Trouble is, what you resist tends to be empowered.
Obsessiveness in the extreme is a form of neurosis which can cause emotional instability. Obsessions can become compulsive so that your life is dominated by unwelcome thoughts or protective habit patterns, in which case psychotherapy is required.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You tend to base your life on the way you have been brought up, fulfilling your parent's expectations, and conforming to the fashions of your peer group. But sometimes you "wake up" and reject overt dismissal of your freedoms and rights.
A person may be self-directed or directed by others. Autonomy or self-determinism is eroded by the cultural conditioning of our upbringing and the continuous assault of the media, so that many lives are to a considerable extent programmed, as in a hypnotic trance. Therefore it is a good idea to regularly "wake up" and check if you still are being true to yourself.
13. Hypochondria (Norm=9) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are concerned about your health, but not obsessively so. You are realistic and don't imagine problems you haven't got. The problems you do have are not amplified by irrational fears. Nevertheless fears about ill health in the future may exist - it's important to take full responsibility about your health to ensure such fears are unfounded.
14. Guilt (Norm=12) Your Score: 28
Your Score is in the High Range
You are self-abasing and troubled by your conscience, regardless of whether your behavior is really morally reprehensible. Excessive self-recrimination, often due to a religious background, is a neurotic characteristic.
Guilt is an emotional instability that unfortunately is closely tied with cultural conditioning. Parental and religious shoulds and shouldn'ts create dependencies that are usually irrational, based on the fear of judgment and punishment. Ethics and judgment are not imposed from above but are self-imposed. Misdeeds are mistakes, misguided actions, from which we can learn. Learning is what life is all about and that is the truth of karma.
When we allow ourselves to learn such a lesson, the slate is wiped clean - by ourselves. When we continue to justify our actions and defend our rightnesses - against the inner voice of conscience - then we continue to suffer.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness (Norm=12) Your Score: 4
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are gentle, sympathetic and even-tempered. You prefer to avoid personal conflict and abhor violence, whether physical or indirect. This may be because you see the futility of an aggressive approach and prefer to encourage communication, empathy and understanding as the best way to obtain agreement or to improve a situation. Or on the negative side, it may be because you lack drive and sincere values and so you are not involved enough to care.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 2
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are humble, timid, submissive, disinclined to take initiative in an interpersonal conflict and you may easily be imposed upon.
17. Ambition (Norm=14) Your Score: 13
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You want to achieve good things in your life but you may back off, due to pressure to conform, the fear of failure (or even of success), or the lack of a clear vision for what you hope to achieve.
18. Manipulation (Norm=12) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
On occasion you may feel the need to be manipulative. Most people would like to have empathic relationships since empathy is necessary for good communication, shared agreements and mutual understanding. However, the need to be right, fixed ideas and the stresses of survival may sometimes drive people into manipulative strategies, as seen all too commonly in the home or in the workplace.
19. Sensation-Seeking (Norm=15) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Low Range
You have little need for excitement and adventure; instead you prefer the secure and familiar comforts of home. You may be scared of social intercourse and risk-taking; or you may be a "deep thinker" who feels that parties and the like are a waste of your valuable time. You may believe small-talk to be trivial, or that the desire for physical sensation and pleasure is a weakness or even a sin.
20. Dogmatism (Norm=15) Your Score: 5
Your Score is in the Low Range
You do not see things in a rigid way and are unlikely to perceive only in black and white. You are flexible and therefore open to rational persuasion and you are tolerant of uncertainty. You have the ability to learn from your mistakes, to develop yourself, to respect others and to think creatively. Alternatively, if you have no clear beliefs, you may be confused, have low self-esteem and no real idea of your values, of what is right and wrong, and therefore you would be easily swayed and manipulated.
21. Masculinity/Femininity (Norm=13) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are easily upset by another's misfortune, by blood, bugs, brutality, etc., and are fascinated by delicate matters such as romance, children, fine arts, flowers and clothes.
Obviously women tend to score more toward the feminine than men but there is a great deal of variation within each sex and the cultural conditioning of gender stereotypes is under increasing scrutiny.
Category D: Sexuality
22. Sexual Libido (Norm=21) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to have occasional impulses for voyeurism or exhibitionism, and desire for the physical act of intercourse with an appropriate partner. Without the right partner you may find it hard to get sexually aroused and enjoy responsive sex.
Sexual response is affected by cultural conditioning, past painful or pleasurable experiences and of course conscious preference; there is no "how it should be." Sexuality is also affected by individual bio-rhythms, age and emotional tone. Stress, nervousness and tension, especially regarding the partner, are an immediate destroyer of sexual feelings.
23. Sexual Satisfaction (Norm=21) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are likely to be dissatisfied with your sex life and possibly you are quite unhappy about this, since the sex drive is such a basic part of our makeup. Sexual inhibitions can cause a real sense of imbalance or dysfunction in your life and behavior, such as sexual shyness, prudishness and disgust. You may tend to feel nervous with the opposite sex, embarrassed when taking about sex and sometimes afraid of sexual relationships altogether, e.g. in case they are inadequate or in case the partner behaves without empathy or in a way they disapprove of. A compulsion (a normal urge that becomes amplified when it is resisted) that cannot be normally satisfied, e.g. due to shyness or the partner's refusal, may lead to exhibitionism, voyeurism, or even enforced sex on unwilling participants.
Very often the cause is misinformation about the nature and value of sex (e.g. from parents, peers, media or religion) or bad experiences with others who were themselves neurotic or psychotic in this area. Another primary reason is a failure in communication between the partners.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You consider sexual intercourse as a far from trivial act, and you have regard for the fidelity of your relationship. You may tend to be jealous upon occasion but you don't let irrational fears in this respect destroy your relationship. You are willing to experiment with new and various ways of fulfilling your mutual attraction with your partner.
25. Sexual Stereotype (Norm=16) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may not hold particularly 'stereotypical' male or female views, or you may have some stereotypical views of the way men and women 'are' but be more open minded in other respects.
You could be a male with a relatively feminine attitude towards sex and gender, or a female with a relatively masculine attitude; this is not necessarily connected with homosexuality - it may just as likely be a more open-minded view of these issues than the stereotypes.
Category E: Social & Political Attitudes
26. Social Permissiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You only favor censorship in extreme cases, and legal control only of clearly dangerous practices. You are tolerant of alternative views, even those that may threaten the status quo, but only if they are rational and based on objective criticism. You welcome genuine reform, though it may be with the proviso that it doesn't step on your own toes.
27. Racism (Norm=11) Your Score: 1
Your Score is in the Low Range
You recognize the essential worth of all persons, whatever their race, sex, age, ability, belief, inclination or circumstance and therefore would not discriminate between people for any of those reasons.
28. Belief (Norm=15) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are skeptical and more inclined to decide for yourself what to think based on your own logic, observation and information gathering. You may, however, be failing to recognize the right-brained way of knowing that is subjective and intuitive by nature (and the only way to perceive spiritual matters), or you may simply not be interested.
29. Socialism/Capitalism (Norm=23) Your Score: 23
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Between the totalitarian extremes of Right and Left lies the central majority of people, at least in Western democracies, with a range between Republican/Tory right-wing politics (tending to be religious); Democrats/Liberals in the center; and in Europe, Socialists/Labour on the left (with both the center and left tending to pacifism and environmental concerns).
30. Libertarianism (Norm=11) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You favor some necessary but minimal degree of regulation, of both business and many aspects of individual behavior. You value individual freedoms but not at the expense of public safety and a sensible degree of order.
31. Reactionism (Norm=16) Your Score: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You like to think you are a progressive thinker, open to new ideas - but then you may react against movements that threaten your interests directly, whether or not they are based on reason.
This scale has fairly high correlation with age.
32. Pacifism (Norm=10) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You favor the maintenance of military strength to provide an effective deterrence and defense against enemies of the state. You believe that violence is only acceptable in self-defense, and that all means should be applied to preserve natural justice including violence but only as a last resort.
