Fixed Emotional Set Level Test

Understand your deeper emotional baseline in about 11 minutes. In 57 items, get a clear snapshot of your mindset to guide therapy or self-reflection and plan next steps.

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Questions: 5711 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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Verified by Daniel Hall

Psychologist with 25 years of experience

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5/7

Total Score (TS)

Assesses how stable and goal-oriented a person’s fixed emotional mindset is, indicating their typical life strategy and sense of well-being.

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Average range

Winner range

1 – 2: Loser range | 3 – 5: Average range | 6 – 7: Winner range

A score of 5 falls in the Average range, suggesting a generally stable emotional background with a tendency to play it safe and avoid unnecessary risk.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Therapy and coaching clients

41%OF USERS

People already working with a therapist or coach take it to quickly map their emotional baseline and decide what to focus on next.

Stressed or burnt-out adults

34%OF USERS

People feeling chronically tired, irritable, or low take it to understand how fixed their emotional attitude has become.

Self-reflection seekers

25%OF USERS

People interested in personal growth use it as a structured check-in to see whether their inner mindset tends toward hopeful, neutral, or defeated.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Overall Assessment (OA)

Average

4.6

Normal range

3.5 — 5.7

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

You are presented with a series of questions and statements. Please respond by selecting one of the seven response options that best applies to you. Please respond promptly and do not spend excessive time considering your answers.

- Always; definitely yes; very true
- Almost always; yes; true
- Often; rather yes; rather true
- Uncertain
- Rarely; rather no; not true
- Almost never; no; not true
- Never; definitely no; completely untrue
- Always; definitely yes; very true
- Almost always; yes; true
- Often; rather yes; rather true
- Uncertain
- Rarely; rather no; not true
- Almost never; no; not true
- Never; definitely no; completely untrue
- Always, absolutely yes, very true
- Almost always, yes, true
- Often, rather yes, rather true
- Uncertain
- Rarely, rather no, not true
- Almost never, no, not true
- Never, absolutely not, completely untrue

These are 3 of the 57 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Fixed Emotional Set Level Test - Symptoms and Signs

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This measure is designed to provide a brief, structured appraisal of an individual’s relatively stable emotional stance. Fixed Emotional Set Level is intended to support clinical formulation and self-reflection by organizing responses into a general profile of perceived emotional well-being (Paul Ekman).

The instrument consists of 57 items and typically requires about 11 minutes to complete. Results are not intended for diagnostic use; instead, Fixed Emotional Set Level may be used as a starting point for discussion in psychotherapy or other supportive contexts, with interpretation integrated alongside clinical history and presenting concerns.

Author: Paul Ekman

Literature: Gross, J. J. Emotion regulation: Conceptual and empirical foundations. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation. Guilford Press. 2007.