Mentality Type Assessment Test

Explore your worldview, values, relationships, and life orientation with the Mentality Type Assessment Test. This 31-question questionnaire takes about 6 minutes and shows your levels across several mentality dimensions, offering a practical starting point for self-reflection about your outlook and priorities.

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How the Scales are Structured

InnovativeI

Measures the degree to which a person favors innovation, rational experimentation, and personal achievement over established norms.

example score10/31

10/31Low innovativeexample score

0 – 10Low innovative

11 – 21Moderate innovative

22 – 31High innovative

A score of 10 indicates a low innovative mentality, suggesting a relatively limited orientation toward novelty and individual achievement compared with more change-focused approaches.

TraditionalT

Measures the degree to which a person relies on tradition, established norms, and friendly, honest relationships within a collectivist outlook.

example score8/31

8/31Lowexample score

0 – 10Low

11 – 20Moderate

21 – 31High

A score of 8 falls in the Low range, suggesting tradition and established norms are not a primary driver in how the person interprets situations and relates to others.

Post-InnovativePI

Measures the extent to which a person integrates and reinterprets innovations while prioritizing stability and horizontal individualism.

example score12/31

12/31Moderateexample score

0 – 10Low

11 – 20Moderate

21 – 31High

A score of 12 falls in the Moderate range, indicating a balanced tendency to incorporate new ideas while still leaning on stability and egalitarian, self-directed values.

TransitionalT

Measures the extent to which a person blends traditional, stability-oriented values with selective openness to new approaches within a vertical collectivist value frame.

example score25/31

25/31Highexample score

0 – 10Low

11 – 21Moderate

22 – 31High

A score of 25 falls in the High range, suggesting a strong tendency to combine established norms with some innovations while prioritizing group structure and hierarchy.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

HR and Team Leads

41%OF USERS

They use it to understand whether employees prefer proven routines or new approaches so they can adapt communication, roles, and change management.

Coaches and Consultants

34%OF USERS

They take it to quickly spot a client’s thinking style and choose strategies that match their comfort with stability versus experimentation.

Career and Self-Development Seekers

25%OF USERS

They use it to clarify how they make decisions and whether they thrive more in structured environments or innovation-driven settings.

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

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See How You Compare

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.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

InnovativeI

You?

Average19.4

Typical rangeTypical15.3 – 23.5

Possible0 – 31

TraditionalT

You?

Average12.6

Typical rangeTypical7.4 – 17.9

Possible0 – 31

Post-innovativeP

You?

Average17.6

Typical rangeTypical13.5 – 21.7

Possible0 – 31

TransitionalT

You?

Average19.3

Typical rangeTypical15.2 – 23.5

Possible0 – 31

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- altruistic, romantic
- businesspeople, "go-getters"
- priests or people engaged in spiritual practices
- strong, gangster-type men
- aim to start a family
- aim to pursue a career
- have no specific occupation
- break the law
- despotic, tyrannical
- democratic, liberal
- anarchists
- corrupt

These are 3 of the 31 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Mentality Type Assessment Test - Description and methodology of the test

cultural values

People seeking a structured way to pause, compare their impressions, and consider personal patterns may use the Mentality Type Assessment Test for guided self-reflection. This mentality assessment questionnaire is intended for readers who want a clearer profile of their perspective rather than a fixed label. Its result can support reflection on how a person understands their own tendencies and priorities.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions explore generational ideals and orientations through situations involving leadership, work, family, relationships, decision-making, time, change, spirituality, and the meaning of life. The result displays levels across the listed dimensions rather than assigning a permanent identity. Readers can use the resulting mentality type profile to reflect on social values and life direction.

The displayed scales describe these result dimensions:

Innovative: 0-31 measures an active, rational, achievement-oriented outlook linked to vertical individualism and less closed interpersonal relationships; Low innovative 0-10, Moderate innovative 11-21, High innovative 22-31.
Traditional: 0-31 assesses horizontal collectivism through respect for traditions and honest, friendly relationships; Low 0-10, Moderate 11-20, High 21-31.
Post-Innovative: 0-31 describes stability and horizontal individualism; Low 0-10, Moderate 11-20, High 21-31.
Transitional: 0-31 assesses vertical collectivism; Low 0-10, Moderate 11-21, High 22-31.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Methodologically, this is a self-report questionnaire built from fixed-choice prompts with several alternatives. Prompts ask respondents to choose the statement that best fits their generation or experience across social ideals, worldview, lifestyle, relationships, and life direction. The themes examine cultural expectations alongside personal orientation.

The result displays separate dimension scores with their corresponding bands; the point allocation for individual answers is not stated. As a mentality type test, it reports separate dimension scores rather than treating one pattern as a complete description of the person.

No standardization data, norms, reliability, or validation evidence are stated for this online questionnaire. The closest source, Pishchik (2020), describes features associated with generations X, Y, and Z. Sivrikova and colleagues (2021) studied how mentality patterns relate to generational identification. The questionnaire's themes are conceptually consistent with these works, but it is not a verbatim reproduction or validated version of them.

Self-report results may shift with current circumstances, cultural context, self-awareness, and response style, so the profile is a structured reflection of this response set rather than a clinical diagnosis or fixed category.

Author: Carl G. Jung

Literature:

Pishchik, V. I. (2010). Mentality of Generations: Psychological Research. Rostov-on-Don: RO IPK and PRO.
Sivrikova, N. V., Perebejnos, A. E., Reznikova, E. V., Nemudraya, E. U., & Vorozheykina, A. V. (2021). Relationship between mentality type and generational identification type. The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 924-930. 10.15405/epsbs.2021.02.02.115
Pishchik, V. I. (2020). Features of the mentality of generations X, Y, Z. E3S Web of Conferences, 210, 20007. 10.1051/e3sconf/202021020007

Updated: 2025-10-02