Modified Questionnaire Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Never
- Almost never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Always
- Never
- Almost never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Always
- Never
- Almost never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Always
Modified Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test
Readers seeking a clearer basis for self-reflection, especially those reviewing recurring interpersonal habits or self-regulation, may use the Modified Questionnaire Test to organize observations from daily life. As an ego state questionnaire, this assessment helps respondents compare the profile with lived experience. The resulting profile can guide discussion of these patterns with a trusted person while remaining a picture of relative tendencies rather than a fixed identity.
What This Assessment Explores
The questions sample behaviors and inner reactions in work and social situations. They cover responsibility, care, spontaneity, influence, emotional control, worry, guilt, withdrawal, decisions, and sensitivity to other people’s cues. Together, these themes help relate the result to behavior across different interpersonal situations.
A stronger pattern is not automatically healthier: protection, structure, directness, or control may help in one context and hinder another. As a transactional analysis test, the result is best compared with recent examples rather than treated as a permanent type.
The displayed Ego-State Profile ranges from 0-100, with Less expressed 0-33, Balanced 34-66, and Strongly expressed 67-100. The item themes are:
- Responsibility and standards show how facts, promises, planning, and completion shape behavior.
- Care and protection indicate how readily support, guidance, and concern for others appear.
- Spontaneity and reactivity reflect novelty, direct feeling, influence, tension, and withdrawal.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each statement asks how often it applies, using seven ordered choices: Never, Almost never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Very often, and Always. This frequency format lets the respondent judge recurring behavior instead of choosing a yes-or-no description.
Responses are summarized in the displayed profile. Readers can make this personality profile more concrete by comparing it with examples from relationships, work, and daily decisions.
The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Jongeward transactional questionnaire described by Gumnitskii and Markina in 2024, but it is not presented as a reproduction or validated adaptation. Its framework is transactional analysis, associated with Eric Berne and with Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward, in which personality ego states organize characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.
The questionnaire’s conversion from the seven response choices to the 0-100 profile is not specified, and no normative or clinical thresholds are established; self-report can also shift with current mood, recent conflict, social desirability, and self-awareness, so the result is best treated as a reflective snapshot rather than a diagnosis or permanent description of personality.
- Gumnitskii, M. E., and N. V. Markina. (2024). Value predictors of formation of personality ego structure. Psychology. Psychophysiology, 17(1), 5-19.
- Uliukin, I. M., N. V. Kiseliova, D. V. Kostin, A. V. Berezovskii, and E. S. Orlova. (2019). Personality structure in young people. Bulletin of the Russian Military Medical Academy, 21(1), 153-156. 10.17816/brmma13056
- James, Muriel, and Dorothy Jongeward. (1971). Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
- Berne, Eric. (1961). Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy. Grove Press.
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