The LONGEST personality test in the world.
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Highlight: I'm a self-conscious, cautious, timid, female scaredy cat with little need of adventure and who is of unexpectedly average emotional stability. I'm also a Gandhi-wannabe who is an easy-going, tolerant, progressive thinker seeing things in shades of gray.
Category A: Introversion/Extraversion
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 15
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: 8
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: 9
Your Score is in the Low Range
You prefer familiarity, safety and security, even if it means sacrificing some degree of excitement in your life. If your score is very low, your life may be severely limited by always expecting the worst and it may be time to reappraise those fears, perhaps with the help of a psychotherapist.
4. Impulsiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 11
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: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may be reluctant to express particularly intimate or painful emotions outwardly and openly, but you're not normally held back from the expression of your thoughts and feelings.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted another's evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a reasonably good opinion of yourself and you assume others think likewise, or certainly, not on the contrary. Therefore you are not particularly self-conscious and you will act according to your own judgment, not just pandering to what others may think.
9. Happiness (Norm=18) Your Score: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are not entirely satisfied with your work, play and relationships. Some things are upsetting for you and some problems cause worries. Life is full of challenges but to be happy we need some success at overcoming them - for this reason Trans4mind's personal development resources are organized around 30 or so common Life Challenges, so that you can focus on and learn new skills in these areas.
10. Anxiety (Norm=15) Your Score: 19
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 6
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 20
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: 4
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: 7
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may regret some incidents in your past. Also you may be concerned about an aspect of your present behavior that you don't feel is as ethical as it should be. You also may accept things as being 'right' or 'wrong' due to cultural influence without making your own independent and objective evaluation.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness (Norm=12) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are rarely overtly hostile, but you still may on occasion use aggressive means to get your way or impose your will, and you feel aggressive if you consider yourself wronged.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 9
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: 16
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: 7
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: 8
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: 4
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: 6
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: 18
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: 25
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to be quite satisfied with your sex life. You are moderately shy and occasionally a bit prudish. You are only a little nervous with the opposite sex, and just a little embarrassed when taking about sex.
A person's satisfaction with their sex life may be quite independent of his or her sexual appetite. Some couples may be quite fulfilled sexually without frequent active sex; this is more likely to be the case with older people.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 21
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: 14
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: 25
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
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: 11
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to have taken on a range of beliefs that were were taught by parents teachers, church and social media. Nevertheless you may question some of these and be skeptical about adopting new beliefs.
29. Socialism/Capitalism (Norm=23) Your Score: 28
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: 18
Your Score is in the High Range
You place great value on freedom of the individual and the protection of human rights. You are opposed to interference in your life from the State, for which you have limited respect. In extreme this would be an anarchist or someone who has a problem in accepting any kind of authority, even if it is imposing sensible order.
31. Reactionism (Norm=16) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are a progressive thinker, open to new ideas and future-oriented. You think that life is getting better - but then you may just be following the tide or latest fashion.
32. Pacifism (Norm=10) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
Category A: Introversion/Extraversion
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 15
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: 8
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: 9
Your Score is in the Low Range
You prefer familiarity, safety and security, even if it means sacrificing some degree of excitement in your life. If your score is very low, your life may be severely limited by always expecting the worst and it may be time to reappraise those fears, perhaps with the help of a psychotherapist.
4. Impulsiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 11
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: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may be reluctant to express particularly intimate or painful emotions outwardly and openly, but you're not normally held back from the expression of your thoughts and feelings.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted another's evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a reasonably good opinion of yourself and you assume others think likewise, or certainly, not on the contrary. Therefore you are not particularly self-conscious and you will act according to your own judgment, not just pandering to what others may think.
9. Happiness (Norm=18) Your Score: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are not entirely satisfied with your work, play and relationships. Some things are upsetting for you and some problems cause worries. Life is full of challenges but to be happy we need some success at overcoming them - for this reason Trans4mind's personal development resources are organized around 30 or so common Life Challenges, so that you can focus on and learn new skills in these areas.
10. Anxiety (Norm=15) Your Score: 19
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 6
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 20
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: 4
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: 7
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may regret some incidents in your past. Also you may be concerned about an aspect of your present behavior that you don't feel is as ethical as it should be. You also may accept things as being 'right' or 'wrong' due to cultural influence without making your own independent and objective evaluation.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness (Norm=12) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are rarely overtly hostile, but you still may on occasion use aggressive means to get your way or impose your will, and you feel aggressive if you consider yourself wronged.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 9
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: 16
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: 7
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: 8
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: 4
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: 6
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: 18
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: 25
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to be quite satisfied with your sex life. You are moderately shy and occasionally a bit prudish. You are only a little nervous with the opposite sex, and just a little embarrassed when taking about sex.
A person's satisfaction with their sex life may be quite independent of his or her sexual appetite. Some couples may be quite fulfilled sexually without frequent active sex; this is more likely to be the case with older people.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 21
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: 14
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: 25
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
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: 11
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to have taken on a range of beliefs that were were taught by parents teachers, church and social media. Nevertheless you may question some of these and be skeptical about adopting new beliefs.
29. Socialism/Capitalism (Norm=23) Your Score: 28
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: 18
Your Score is in the High Range
You place great value on freedom of the individual and the protection of human rights. You are opposed to interference in your life from the State, for which you have limited respect. In extreme this would be an anarchist or someone who has a problem in accepting any kind of authority, even if it is imposing sensible order.
31. Reactionism (Norm=16) Your Score: 7
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are a progressive thinker, open to new ideas and future-oriented. You think that life is getting better - but then you may just be following the tide or latest fashion.
32. Pacifism (Norm=10) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
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I so wanted to do a jumbled dump just to be defiant...but I couldn't do it!
Pfftthp. I think some of you missed the part where I said this was the LONGEST personality test in the WORLD.
I meant it!
Boy did it live up to it's warning! I started at 5pm and finished the test sometime after 7 and finally had the post formatted and ready to post by 8. It was fun, but yeah, it's an evening's worth of activity.
Test and Score Low Range
1. Activity
Your Score is in the Medium Range
2. Sociability
Your Score is in the Medium Range
3. Risk-Taking
Your Score is in the Medium Range
4. Impulsiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
5. Expressiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
Your ability to express your emotions outwardly and openly - whether love, hate, sorrow, anger or fear - is one of the factors that goes to make up extraversion. You may at times tend to be volatile and demonstrative.
6. Reflectiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
7. Responsibility
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
8. Self-Esteem
Your Score is in the High Range
9. Happiness
Your Score is in the High Range
Those with a high score on happiness are satisfied with their existence, find life rewarding and are at peace with the world. They are on top of things, emotionally stable, and do not take problems too seriously. For them life is full of challenges, like a game.
10. Anxiety
Your Score is in the Low Range
Those with low scores are placid, serene and resistant to irrational fears and anxieties -
11. Obsessiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence
Your Score is in the High Range
You enjoy a great deal of freedom and independence, make your own decisions and take realistic actions towards achieving your own goals in life.
13. Hypochondria
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are seldom ill and you don't worry overmuch about your health; which is not to say that you don't take responsibility for your health. You enjoy being alive.
14. Guilt
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are not inclined to punish yourself or regret your past behavior.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
16. Assertiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
17. Ambition
Your Score is in the Medium Range
18. Manipulation
Your Score is in the Medium Range
19. Sensation-Seeking
Your Score is in the Medium Range
20. Dogmatism
Your Score is in the Medium Range
21. Masculinity/Femininity
Your Score is in the Medium Range
22. Sexual Libido
Your Score is in the Medium Range
23. Sexual Satisfaction
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score indicates considerable sexual fulfillment which is naturally a very desirable state of affairs.
24. Sexual Permissiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a modern, permissive attitude to sex and find irrelevant the old-fashioned Victorian ideas of what is "right and proper". You aren't bothered about virginity, favor pre-marital (or even extra-marital) sex, believe that birth control is a liberation and generally regard sex as a pleasurable activity that is nobody's concern but that of the consenting persons involved.
25. Sexual Stereotype
Your Score is in the Low Range
You tend to agree with a stereotypical female point of view regarding sexual matters and to disagree with the typical male point of view.
26. Social Permissiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
27. Racism
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
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.
1. Activity
Your Score is in the Medium Range
2. Sociability
Your Score is in the Medium Range
3. Risk-Taking
Your Score is in the Medium Range
4. Impulsiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
5. Expressiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
Your ability to express your emotions outwardly and openly - whether love, hate, sorrow, anger or fear - is one of the factors that goes to make up extraversion. You may at times tend to be volatile and demonstrative.
6. Reflectiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
7. Responsibility
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
8. Self-Esteem
Your Score is in the High Range
9. Happiness
Your Score is in the High Range
Those with a high score on happiness are satisfied with their existence, find life rewarding and are at peace with the world. They are on top of things, emotionally stable, and do not take problems too seriously. For them life is full of challenges, like a game.
10. Anxiety
Your Score is in the Low Range
Those with low scores are placid, serene and resistant to irrational fears and anxieties -
11. Obsessiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence
Your Score is in the High Range
You enjoy a great deal of freedom and independence, make your own decisions and take realistic actions towards achieving your own goals in life.
13. Hypochondria
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are seldom ill and you don't worry overmuch about your health; which is not to say that you don't take responsibility for your health. You enjoy being alive.
14. Guilt
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are not inclined to punish yourself or regret your past behavior.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
16. Assertiveness
Your Score is in the Medium Range
17. Ambition
Your Score is in the Medium Range
18. Manipulation
Your Score is in the Medium Range
19. Sensation-Seeking
Your Score is in the Medium Range
20. Dogmatism
Your Score is in the Medium Range
21. Masculinity/Femininity
Your Score is in the Medium Range
22. Sexual Libido
Your Score is in the Medium Range
23. Sexual Satisfaction
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score indicates considerable sexual fulfillment which is naturally a very desirable state of affairs.
24. Sexual Permissiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a modern, permissive attitude to sex and find irrelevant the old-fashioned Victorian ideas of what is "right and proper". You aren't bothered about virginity, favor pre-marital (or even extra-marital) sex, believe that birth control is a liberation and generally regard sex as a pleasurable activity that is nobody's concern but that of the consenting persons involved.
25. Sexual Stereotype
Your Score is in the Low Range
You tend to agree with a stereotypical female point of view regarding sexual matters and to disagree with the typical male point of view.
26. Social Permissiveness
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
27. Racism
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
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.
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Category A: Introversion/Extraversion
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are inclined to be physically inactive, lethargic and easily tired. You prefer leisurely activities and find it hard to get going in the morning. Low activity tends to go with introversion: a more inward-looking, self-conscious and inhibited personality. Your goals may not be as clear - you may have suffered failure or trauma in the past and therefore have less confidence and energy.
NOTE: Any score may indicate an aspect of your personality that you would like to improve or to change. Trans4mind offers many tools to help you achieve this kind of transformation.
An extreme score may represent a neurotic inhibition. If the neurosis is longstanding, it is something you are probably aware of but you will need professional help (from a psychotherapist) to overcome it. Extreme cases may need psychiatric (medical) help.
2. Sociability (Norm=16) Your Score: 6
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: 12
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: 9
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: 7
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may be reluctant to express particularly intimate or painful emotions outwardly and openly, but you're not normally held back from the expression of your thoughts and feelings.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations. The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted anothers evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 4
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: 12
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: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 20
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: 11
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: 21
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: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are rarely overtly hostile, but you still may on occasion use aggressive means to get your way or impose your will, and you feel aggressive if you consider yourself wronged.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 7
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: 11
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: 7
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You like a little excitement and adventure but not at the cost - at least for long - of the security and relationships of your normal home and work environment.
20. Dogmatism (Norm=15) Your Score: 9
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a balance of both masculine and feminine characteristics. With balance, the men are not suppressing their 'feminine side' and the women are not suppressing 'masculine' characteristics, since we all have both masculine and feminine traits in our makeup - indeed we need these to express our full potential. Obviously men tend to score more toward masculine on average than women 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: 30
Your Score is in the High Range
Sexual libido (sex drive) is often correlated with quick sexual arousal, interest in visual explicitness and a liking for impersonal penetrative sex, which is rather a masculine view of the nature of sex and does not take account of the equally strong more feminine drive towards procreation, the aesthetic pleasure and eroticism of sex, and the expression of intimacy through shared pleasure and contact. When partners are happy to contribute towards the fulfillment of each others needs and desires, then compatibility is possible and male values complement female. This requires communication, honesty and empathy, which is why sex in the context of a loving relationship is so much more fulfilling. With your libido on the high side, you may tend to regard your partner as a sex object and pay little attention to his or her personality and desires, and in particular to seek only sensual satisfaction rather than a meaningful personal relationship. Women tend to regard this form of sexual behavior as less attractive than do men; for a woman, eroticism tends to require more emotional commitment. As a high scorer, you tend to value sexual pleasure above other aspects of a loving relationship. Extreme high scores suggest a compulsion for sexual outlet, in which case this may be a substitute for a suppressed major unmet need (e.g. for love, belonging or intimacy); if this is not handled and a normal sexual expression is not possible then socially unacceptable means may be turned to.
23. Sexual Satisfaction (Norm=21) Your Score: 27
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score indicates considerable sexual fulfillment which is naturally a very desirable state of affairs.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a modern, permissive attitude to sex and find irrelevant the old-fashioned Victorian ideas of what is "right and proper". You aren't bothered about virginity, favor pre-marital (or even extra-marital) sex, believe that birth control is a liberation and generally regard sex as a pleasurable activity that is nobody's concern but that of the consenting persons involved.
25. Sexual Stereotype (Norm=16) Your Score: 14
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: 21
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
27. Racism (Norm=11) Your Score: 2
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: 5
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: 34
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a socialist outlook, with sympathy toward working people and resentment toward those who receive unearned income or excessive profits; you favor internationalism and the redistribution of wealth. In the context of the other Traits in this Category, socialists tend to be radical and progressive. On the radical side, a tough-minded socialist may tend towards communism; a very permissive radical may tend towards anarchy.
30. Libertarianism (Norm=11) Your Score: 24
Your Score is in the High Range
You place great value on freedom of the individual and the protection of human rights. You are opposed to interference in your life from the State, for which you have limited respect. In extreme this would be an anarchist or someone who has a problem in accepting any kind of authority, even if it is imposing sensible 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: 20
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are inclined to be physically inactive, lethargic and easily tired. You prefer leisurely activities and find it hard to get going in the morning. Low activity tends to go with introversion: a more inward-looking, self-conscious and inhibited personality. Your goals may not be as clear - you may have suffered failure or trauma in the past and therefore have less confidence and energy.
NOTE: Any score may indicate an aspect of your personality that you would like to improve or to change. Trans4mind offers many tools to help you achieve this kind of transformation.
An extreme score may represent a neurotic inhibition. If the neurosis is longstanding, it is something you are probably aware of but you will need professional help (from a psychotherapist) to overcome it. Extreme cases may need psychiatric (medical) help.
2. Sociability (Norm=16) Your Score: 6
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: 12
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: 9
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: 7
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may be reluctant to express particularly intimate or painful emotions outwardly and openly, but you're not normally held back from the expression of your thoughts and feelings.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations. The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted anothers evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 4
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: 12
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: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 20
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: 11
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: 21
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: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are rarely overtly hostile, but you still may on occasion use aggressive means to get your way or impose your will, and you feel aggressive if you consider yourself wronged.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 7
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: 11
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: 7
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You like a little excitement and adventure but not at the cost - at least for long - of the security and relationships of your normal home and work environment.
20. Dogmatism (Norm=15) Your Score: 9
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a balance of both masculine and feminine characteristics. With balance, the men are not suppressing their 'feminine side' and the women are not suppressing 'masculine' characteristics, since we all have both masculine and feminine traits in our makeup - indeed we need these to express our full potential. Obviously men tend to score more toward masculine on average than women 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: 30
Your Score is in the High Range
Sexual libido (sex drive) is often correlated with quick sexual arousal, interest in visual explicitness and a liking for impersonal penetrative sex, which is rather a masculine view of the nature of sex and does not take account of the equally strong more feminine drive towards procreation, the aesthetic pleasure and eroticism of sex, and the expression of intimacy through shared pleasure and contact. When partners are happy to contribute towards the fulfillment of each others needs and desires, then compatibility is possible and male values complement female. This requires communication, honesty and empathy, which is why sex in the context of a loving relationship is so much more fulfilling. With your libido on the high side, you may tend to regard your partner as a sex object and pay little attention to his or her personality and desires, and in particular to seek only sensual satisfaction rather than a meaningful personal relationship. Women tend to regard this form of sexual behavior as less attractive than do men; for a woman, eroticism tends to require more emotional commitment. As a high scorer, you tend to value sexual pleasure above other aspects of a loving relationship. Extreme high scores suggest a compulsion for sexual outlet, in which case this may be a substitute for a suppressed major unmet need (e.g. for love, belonging or intimacy); if this is not handled and a normal sexual expression is not possible then socially unacceptable means may be turned to.
23. Sexual Satisfaction (Norm=21) Your Score: 27
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score indicates considerable sexual fulfillment which is naturally a very desirable state of affairs.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 26
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a modern, permissive attitude to sex and find irrelevant the old-fashioned Victorian ideas of what is "right and proper". You aren't bothered about virginity, favor pre-marital (or even extra-marital) sex, believe that birth control is a liberation and generally regard sex as a pleasurable activity that is nobody's concern but that of the consenting persons involved.
25. Sexual Stereotype (Norm=16) Your Score: 14
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: 21
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
27. Racism (Norm=11) Your Score: 2
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: 5
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: 34
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a socialist outlook, with sympathy toward working people and resentment toward those who receive unearned income or excessive profits; you favor internationalism and the redistribution of wealth. In the context of the other Traits in this Category, socialists tend to be radical and progressive. On the radical side, a tough-minded socialist may tend towards communism; a very permissive radical may tend towards anarchy.
30. Libertarianism (Norm=11) Your Score: 24
Your Score is in the High Range
You place great value on freedom of the individual and the protection of human rights. You are opposed to interference in your life from the State, for which you have limited respect. In extreme this would be an anarchist or someone who has a problem in accepting any kind of authority, even if it is imposing sensible 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: 20
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
Attachments
Category A: Introversion/Extraversion
1. Activity (Norm=16) Your Score: 4
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are inclined to be physically inactive, lethargic and easily tired. You prefer leisurely activities and find it hard to get going in the morning.
Low activity tends to go with introversion: a more inward-looking, self-conscious and inhibited personality. Your goals may not be as clear - you may have suffered failure or trauma in the past and therefore have less confidence and energy.
NOTE: Any score may indicate an aspect of your personality that you would like to improve or to change. Trans4mind offers many tools to help you achieve this kind of transformation.
An extreme score may represent a neurotic inhibition. If the neurosis is longstanding, it is something you are probably aware of but you will need professional help (from a psychotherapist) to overcome it. Extreme cases may need psychiatric (medical) help.
2. Sociability (Norm=16) Your Score: 10
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: 12
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: 10
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: 17
Your Score is in the High Range
Your ability to express your emotions outwardly and openly - whether love, hate, sorrow, anger or fear - is one of the factors that goes to make up extraversion. You may at times tend to be volatile and demonstrative.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 25
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted another's evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 20
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a reasonably good opinion of yourself and you assume others think likewise, or certainly, not on the contrary. Therefore you are not particularly self-conscious and you will act according to your own judgment, not just pandering to what others may think.
9. Happiness (Norm=18) Your Score: 23
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are not entirely satisfied with your work, play and relationships. Some things are upsetting for you and some problems cause worries. Life is full of challenges but to be happy we need some success at overcoming them - for this reason Trans4mind's personal development resources are organized around 30 or so common Life Challenges, so that you can focus on and learn new skills in these areas.
10. Anxiety (Norm=15) Your Score: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 23
Your Score is in the High Range
You enjoy a great deal of freedom and independence, make your own decisions and take realistic actions towards achieving your own goals in life.
13. Hypochondria (Norm=9) Your Score: 6
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: 6
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are not inclined to punish yourself or regret your past behavior. If you are truly free of guilt, this is not necessarily because of a lack of responsibility or of empathy with the feelings of others - on the contrary, you are open to the truth within yourself (not necessarily the cultural line), you have accepted responsibility for the effects of your actions, you have honestly learned the lessons provided by the experience, and you have developed accordingly.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness (Norm=12) Your Score: 5
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: 13
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You normally stand up for your rights and express your point of view, but may back off if there is a likelihood of 'causing a fuss' or aggression from a person in authority.
Assertiveness is often confused with aggressiveness, but really it is a matter of standing up for your rights and for what you feel is right. As long as you are not rude, or inconsiderate of the rights of others, the ability to be assertive is an asset and is necessary to achieve worthwhile aims and impose some order and justice in your environment.
17. Ambition (Norm=14) Your Score: 12
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: 10
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: 14
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You like a little excitement and adventure but not at the cost - at least for long - of the security and relationships of your normal home and work environment.
20. Dogmatism (Norm=15) Your Score: 8
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: 16
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a balance of both masculine and feminine characteristics. With balance, the men are not suppressing their 'feminine side' and the women are not suppressing 'masculine' characteristics, since we all have both masculine and feminine traits in our makeup - indeed we need these to express our full potential.
Obviously men tend to score more toward masculine on average than women 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: 10
Your Score is in the Low Range
Sexual libido (sex drive) is often correlated with quick sexual arousal, interest in visual explicitness and a liking for impersonal penetrative sex, which is rather a masculine view of the nature of sex and does not take account of the equally strong more feminine drive towards procreation, the aesthetic pleasure and eroticism of sex, and the expression of intimacy through shared pleasure and contact. When partners are happy to contribute towards the fulfillment of each other's needs and desires, then compatibility is possible and male values complement female. This requires communication, honesty and empathy, which is why sex in the context of a loving relationship is so much more fulfilling.
With libido on the low side, you are likely to have no impulse for voyeurism or exhibitionism, a distaste for sexual explicitness and especially pornography and have no strong longing for the physical act of intercourse. You may find it hard to get sexually aroused, or conditions may have to be "just right", which implies there is not a compatible partner with whom empathy and intimacy is readily available. On the other hand, you may be looking for more spiritual qualities than being "good in bed" or the sex drive may have been satisfactorily sublimated into other creative activities.
23. Sexual Satisfaction (Norm=21) Your Score: 20
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to be quite satisfied with your sex life. You are moderately shy and occasionally a bit prudish. You are only a little nervous with the opposite sex, and just a little embarrassed when taking about sex.
A person's satisfaction with their sex life may be quite independent of his or her sexual appetite. Some couples may be quite fulfilled sexually without frequent active sex; this is more likely to be the case with older people.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 16
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: 8
Your Score is in the Low Range
You tend to agree with a stereotypical female point of view regarding sexual matters and to disagree with the typical male point of view.
Category E: Social & Political Attitudes
26. Social Permissiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 19
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: 12
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are likely to have taken on a range of beliefs that were were taught by parents teachers, church and social media. Nevertheless you may question some of these and be skeptical about adopting new beliefs.
29. Socialism/Capitalism (Norm=23) Your Score: 33
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a socialist outlook, with sympathy toward working people and resentment toward those who receive unearned income or excessive profits; you favor internationalism and the redistribution of wealth.
In the context of the other Traits in this Category, socialists tend to be radical and progressive. On the radical side, a tough-minded socialist may tend towards communism; a very permissive radical may tend towards anarchy.
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: 9
Your Score is in the Low Range
You are a progressive thinker, open to new ideas and future-oriented. You think that life is getting better - but then you may just be following the tide or latest fashion.
32. Pacifism (Norm=10) Your Score: 20
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
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: 11
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You will probably have a range of friends and associates but not consider yourself particularly "popular." You feel comfortable enough in company but don't particularly relish being in social situations with people you don't know well.
3. Risk-Taking (Norm=15) Your Score: 16
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: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You normally reflect at least a little before you act and you're aware of warning signs. You're not inhibited from doing something that may well be a beneficial opportunity.
4. Impulsiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You normally reflect at least a little before you act and you're aware of warning signs. You're not inhibited from doing something that may well be a beneficial opportunity.
5. Expressiveness (Norm=11) Your Score: 19
Your Score is in the High Range
Your ability to express your emotions outwardly and openly - whether love, hate, sorrow, anger or fear - is one of the factors that goes to make up extraversion. You may at times tend to be volatile and demonstrative.
6. Reflectiveness (Norm=17) Your Score: 28
Your Score is in the High Range
To reflect is to think and imagine, within your own mental universe. You tend therefore toward introversion. You are interested in knowledge for its own sake, rather than just its practical application. You are generally thoughtful and introspective, and are interested in ideas, abstractions and speculations.
The introspection may however occur because you have received information that confuses your thinking, or you accepted another's evaluation which causes you to doubt your own viewpoint and reality. Or you may have problems that are unsolvable because you are unwilling to face the realities of the situation, and you try to find solace in theories or dogma.
Of course, the ability to look inward and reflect is necessary for considered actions, and the ability to visualize objectives and be open to intuitive ideas is behind all human creativity. Reflection is also necessary for the process of re-evaluation of one's beliefs and strategies. But when this occurs without objectivity or direction, it is a quagmire.
7. Responsibility (Norm=14) Your Score: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably careful and responsible about matters under your jurisdiction. You don't act rashly without proper consideration of what may happen.
Category B: Emotional Stability
8. Self-Esteem (Norm=18) Your Score: 18
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You have a reasonably good opinion of yourself and you assume others think likewise, or certainly, not on the contrary. Therefore you are not particularly self-conscious and you will act according to your own judgment, not just pandering to what others may think.
9. Happiness (Norm=18) Your Score: 17
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are not entirely satisfied with your work, play and relationships. Some things are upsetting for you and some problems cause worries. Life is full of challenges but to be happy we need some success at overcoming them - for this reason Trans4mind's personal development resources are organized around 30 or so common Life Challenges, so that you can focus on and learn new skills in these areas.
10. Anxiety (Norm=15) Your Score: 19
Your Score is in the Medium Range
Those with average scores get anxious on occasion, though not usually irrationally. They can face up to problems if they're not too threatening.
11. Obsessiveness (Norm=10) Your Score: 8
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are reasonably casual and easy-going, and you can be spontaneous and have fun. However, you also see the need for order, routine and ritual when appropriate.
12. Independence (Norm=15) Your Score: 24
Your Score is in the High Range
You enjoy a great deal of freedom and independence, make your own decisions and take realistic actions towards achieving your own goals in life.
13. Hypochondria (Norm=9) Your Score: 5
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: 9
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You may regret some incidents in your past. Also you may be concerned about an aspect of your present behavior that you don't feel is as ethical as it should be. You also may accept things as being 'right' or 'wrong' due to cultural influence without making your own independent and objective evaluation.
Category C: Mastery/Sympathy
15. Aggressiveness (Norm=12) Your Score: 10
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You are rarely overtly hostile, but you still may on occasion use aggressive means to get your way or impose your will, and you feel aggressive if you consider yourself wronged.
16. Assertiveness (Norm=15) Your Score: 16
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You normally stand up for your rights and express your point of view, but may back off if there is a likelihood of 'causing a fuss' or aggression from a person in authority.
Assertiveness is often confused with aggressiveness, but really it is a matter of standing up for your rights and for what you feel is right. As long as you are not rude, or inconsiderate of the rights of others, the ability to be assertive is an asset and is necessary to achieve worthwhile aims and impose some order and justice in your environment.
17. Ambition (Norm=14) Your Score: 11
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: 16
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: 15
Your Score is in the Medium Range
You like a little excitement and adventure but not at the cost - at least for long - of the security and relationships of your normal home and work environment.
20. Dogmatism (Norm=15) Your Score: 9
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: 19
Your Score is in the High Range
You are definitely living up to the macho masculine stereotype. You are tolerant of - and may even enjoy - violence, obscenity and swearing; you are disinclined to show weakness or sentimentality of any kind, e.g. by crying or expressing love, and you rely on reason rather than intuition to come to decisions.
Obviously men tend to score more toward the masculine than women 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: 34
Your Score is in the High Range
Sexual libido (sex drive) is often correlated with quick sexual arousal, interest in visual explicitness and a liking for impersonal penetrative sex, which is rather a masculine view of the nature of sex and does not take account of the equally strong more feminine drive towards procreation, the aesthetic pleasure and eroticism of sex, and the expression of intimacy through shared pleasure and contact. When partners are happy to contribute towards the fulfillment of each other's needs and desires, then compatibility is possible and male values complement female. This requires communication, honesty and empathy, which is why sex in the context of a loving relationship is so much more fulfilling.
With your libido on the high side, you may tend to regard your partner as a sex object and pay little attention to his or her personality and desires, and in particular to seek only sensual satisfaction rather than a meaningful personal relationship. Women tend to regard this form of sexual behavior as less attractive than do men; for a woman, eroticism tends to require more emotional commitment. As a high scorer, you tend to value sexual pleasure above other aspects of a loving relationship. Extreme high scores suggest a compulsion for sexual outlet, in which case this may be a substitute for a suppressed major unmet need (e.g. for love, belonging or intimacy); if this is not handled and a normal sexual expression is not possible then socially unacceptable means may be turned to.
23. Sexual Satisfaction (Norm=21) Your Score: 33
Your Score is in the High Range
Your high score indicates considerable sexual fulfillment which is naturally a very desirable state of affairs.
24. Sexual Permissiveness (Norm=16) Your Score: 29
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a modern, permissive attitude to sex and find irrelevant the old-fashioned Victorian ideas of what is "right and proper". You aren't bothered about virginity, favor pre-marital (or even extra-marital) sex, believe that birth control is a liberation and generally regard sex as a pleasurable activity that is nobody's concern but that of the consenting persons involved.
25. Sexual Stereotype (Norm=16) Your Score: 21
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: 25
Your Score is in the High Range
You have favorable attitudes to sexual freedom, freedom of speech and non-conformists of all kinds. Generally, you adopt an easy-going, tolerant and hedonistic view of life with respect for the right of every person to be and do as they think fit. An extreme score would indicate little idea of the need for any maintenance of social order.
27. Racism (Norm=11) Your Score: 0
28. Belief (Norm=15) Your Score: 6
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: 37
Your Score is in the High Range
You have a socialist outlook, with sympathy toward working people and resentment toward those who receive unearned income or excessive profits; you favor internationalism and the redistribution of wealth.
In the context of the other Traits in this Category, socialists tend to be radical and progressive. On the radical side, a tough-minded socialist may tend towards communism; a very permissive radical may tend towards anarchy.
30. Libertarianism (Norm=11) Your Score: 16
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: 14
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: 19
Your Score is in the High Range
You believe there is no justification for war; you would prefer a policy of non-violence whatever the outcome might be - indeed you may think a Gandhi-like policy would ultimately be more effective. Being gentle, humane and empathetic, you are repulsed by all violence. Generally speaking, women tend to be more pacifist than men, though that stereotype may become a thing of the past.
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