Personal Resource Losses and Gains Questionnaire Test

For people examining how stressful changes have affected practical, social, and inner resources, the Personal Resource Losses and Gains Questionnaire Test offers a structured self-report profile. This personal resource assessment suits people reflecting on transitions, strain, recovery, or renewed support. The result organizes perceived changes into gains, losses, and overall balance, helping identify resources that feel secure, depleted, or ready for replenishment.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire covers six-month changes in inner states, relationships, work, finances, health, living conditions, and opportunities. Losses include confidence, optimism, motivation, stability, meaning, and access to resources; gains include sleep, support, pride, independence, purpose, healthcare, and savings. As a resource loss and gain test, it maps change rather than symptoms.

The three displayed dimensions show how the result is organized:

• Resource Index (0-5) reflects the balance between gains and losses: Resource deficit (0-0.8) indicates depletion; Balanced (0.8-1.3) indicates an even profile; and Gains dominate (1.3-5) means gains outweigh losses, with relevance to resilience and adaptive capacity.
• Gains (30-150) assesses new or restored resources: Low acquisitions (30-69), Moderate acquisitions (70-109), and High acquisitions (110-150) mark increasing positive change and adaptation.
• Losses (0-150) assesses resources lost: Low losses (0-49), Moderate losses (50-99), and High losses (100-150) mark increasing stressful change and the need for restoration.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses five response options, from no experience or feeling to a progressively stronger experience. The respondent rates each gain or loss during the same six-month period. Items form two thematic groups rather than a symptom checklist.

Responses produce separate results for resources gained, resources lost, and their balance. The ranges show result bands, but not how many points any answer contributes. Interpretation comes from comparing the results with the circumstances being considered.

The closest published reference is Losses and Gains Questionnaire (Vodopyanova & Stein, 2005). This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument and with Hobfoll’s conservation of resources theory, described by Hobfoll (1989) and Hobfoll and Lilly (1993). The framework treats valued resources, their loss, and accumulation as relevant to stress and adaptation; this questionnaire is not presented as a direct reproduction of the published measure.

A later standardized version by Vodopyanova and Nasledov (2013) offers related evidence, but its norms and procedures do not automatically transfer to this online format. As a resource balance questionnaire, results may reflect current mood, memory, context, and self-awareness; the bands describe reported change patterns, not clinical diagnoses.