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Self-Assessment of Perseverance Test

With 18 yes-or-no questions, the Self-Assessment of Perseverance Test takes about four minutes. It helps you reflect on persistence, follow-through, motivation, and responses to difficulty, offering a concise profile of how you approach goals and whether your usual effort remains steady when tasks become challenging.

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Self-Assessment of Perseverance Test: sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

Perseverance Self-AssessmentPSA

Measures perceived perseverance and determination to persist and complete tasks despite difficulties.

example score10/18

10/18Averageexample score

0 – 6Low

7 – 11Average

12 – 18High

A score of 10 falls in the Average range, suggesting a generally balanced ability to stay motivated and follow through when progress is challenging.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Students under pressure

41%OF USERS

They want to understand how well they push through studying, exams, or long projects when motivation drops.

Early-career professionals

34%OF USERS

They take it to gauge their persistence with challenging tasks, deadlines, and setbacks at work.

Coaches and educators

25%OF USERS

They use it to quickly spot willpower gaps in clients or learners and choose focused support strategies.

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

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Self-esteem of perseveranceSop

You?

Average9

Typical rangeTypical6.7 – 11.3

Possible0 – 18

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No

These are 3 of the 18 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Self-Assessment of Perseverance Test - Description and methodology of the test

willpower traits

People considering a change in their work habits or goal-setting may use the Self-Assessment of Perseverance Test to examine patterns they want to understand more clearly. The resulting perseverance assessment can help frame self-reflection about planning, setbacks, and unfinished tasks, giving the respondent a starting point for deciding which everyday behaviors deserve closer attention.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than measuring achievement itself, the questionnaire examines how a person approaches effort when a task is dull, difficult, interrupted, or temporarily unsuccessful. It supports a perseverance profile for everyday goals, work habits, routines, problem-solving, and disagreement.

The displayed Perseverance Self-Assessment scale ranges from 0-18 and reflects self-rated perseverance and the ability to follow through with tasks. Low (0-6) suggests rapid loss of motivation; Average (7-11) indicates a balanced approach to difficulty; High (12-18) indicates pronounced persistence. The result describes a self-rated tendency, not a fixed character.

The items bring three related dimensions into view:

Follow-through shows whether you continue boring or repetitive tasks until they are complete.
Recovery from setbacks shows how readily you try again when an attempt fails or progress slows.
Sustained resolve shows whether routines, difficult problems, and firmly held aims can maintain your effort.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

In practice, this is a perseverance questionnaire using self-report: each item describes continuing effort, responding to obstacles, maintaining routines, handling challenge, or standing by an intended course of action, and the respondent selects yes or no. The binary format is efficient but compresses nuanced experiences into two choices.

The binary responses are combined into the single displayed score, and the result bands provide broad descriptive levels for that result. The questionnaire presents one combined result rather than separate subscores, so individual answers indicate a general pattern rather than separate verdicts.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Feshchenko's 1999 work and Ilyin's 2009 account of volitional regulation; it is an online self-assessment rather than a standardized reproduction of either source.

Mood, recent success or failure, memory, and the wish to describe oneself favorably can influence yes-or-no answers; recurring behavior across different situations adds useful context to the band.

Author: A. L. Duckworth, C. S. Dweck

Literature:

Feshchenko, E. K. Age- and Sex-Related Features of Self-Assessment of Volitional Qualities. Candidate of Psychological Sciences dissertation. Saint Petersburg: Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, 1999, 136 pp.
Ilyin, E. P. Psychology of Will. 2nd ed. Saint Petersburg: Piter, 2009, 368 pp. ISBN 978-5-388-00269-3.
Kremneva, Alena, Marina Gumerova, Irina Zakharova, Lily Sadykova, Azat Rafikov, and Rustam Malikov. Development of personal qualities of gifted students as the result of the implementation of individual educational routes. SHS Web of Conferences, vol. 97, 01045, 2021. 10.1051/shsconf/20219701045.

Updated: 2025-10-02