Fixed Emotional Set Level Test

People who want to examine how they approach opportunities, responsibility, relationships, and setbacks can use the Fixed Emotional Set Level Test as a structured self-report exercise. Its single total score offers a broad snapshot of the respondent's current emotional set profile, while the questions connect optimism, adaptability, openness, and enjoyment.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire samples achievement, responsibility, relationships, pleasure, worry, and the future rather than a single mood. These themes show how emotional set level appears in planning, persistence, openness, and constructive meaning.

Total Score is 1-7 and is the sole displayed scale, reflecting fixed emotional set, well-being, and life strategies. It places respondents on an imaginary nine-level ladder of underachievers, average performers, and achievers, each with three sublevels: underachievers tend toward pessimism and responsibility avoidance; average performers are satisfied with little and avoid risk; achievers attain goals and show flexibility. The bands are Loser range 1-2, Average range 3-5, and Winner range 6-7.

The questions sample these connected themes:

• Goal pursuit and responsibility show planning, persistence, and ownership of decisions.
• Openness and relationships indicate flexibility, connection, and conflict patterns.
• Well-being themes capture enjoyment, hope, and constructive meaning in events.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item is a first-person statement rated on seven ordered choices, from Always or definitely true through an uncertain midpoint to Never or completely untrue. The items cover planning, persistence, and responsibility alongside expecting failure, delaying decisions, or hoping for a miracle. Respondents therefore place each statement on a frequency-and-agreement continuum.

The item themes are conceptually consistent with Makarov and Makarova's 2002 transactional-analysis work; this online questionnaire is not that published instrument or a standardized adaptation. Transactional analysis provides a framework for considering stable attitudes, personal agency, and interpersonal behavior, while Berne and Knapp clarify related concepts without establishing this version's standardization.

The displayed fixed emotional set score is a single result with three descriptive bands; no item-weighting or norming rule is stated for this online score. Because it is a self-report snapshot, current circumstances, self-awareness, and self-presentation can influence the result; it describes the respondent's present perspective rather than measuring change over time.