Seven Deadly Sin Quiz

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
Seven Deadly Sin Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
For readers curious about how ambition, recognition, possessions, and anger shape everyday reactions, this assessment offers a focused profile of three personality tendencies. The seven deadly sins quiz is intended for people who want to examine recurring attitudes and conflict responses without reducing themselves to a single label. Presented as a 7 deadly sins quiz, it keeps the emphasis on patterns rather than moral judgment.
What This Assessment Explores
Rather than treating the seven deadly sins test as a moral ranking, the questionnaire examines motives in ordinary situations: seeking apologies, comparing achievements, guarding resources, pursuing recognition, replaying conflict, and imagining retaliation. The result shows how strongly each tendency appears within the questionnaire’s own ranges.
The assessment reports three dimensions:
- Greed (0-20) measures attachment to acquiring and holding resources. Content & Giving (0-6) reflects satisfaction and generosity; Balanced (7-13) marks a middle range; Accumulating (14-20) reflects stronger focus on having more.
- Pride (0-20) measures self-importance, status-seeking, and need for recognition. Humble (0-6) reflects sharing credit; Confident (7-13) marks a middle range; Status-driven (14-20) reflects stronger recognition needs.
- Wrath (0-20) measures frustration reactivity, conflict style, and anger intensity. Even-Tempered (0-6) reflects patience; Reactive at Times (7-13) marks situational escalation; Quick to Anger (14-20) reflects faster, stronger responses.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Questions cover acquisition, ownership, status, criticism, frustration, escalation, and retaliation. Respondents choose among four agreement options; some sampled items run from Strongly disagree to Agree, while others run from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. The format captures reported tendencies, not observed conduct.
Framing the result as a 7 deadly sins test makes it readable as a profile rather than a single global score. Responses are compiled into separate totals and interpreted through the named bands; because the questionnaire does not establish a point value for every answer, no extra scoring rule should be assumed.
Conceptually, the questionnaire aligns with the Vices and Virtues Scale (VAVS), a named source connecting deadly-sin dimensions with personality dispositions. It is not presented as a direct adaptation or standardized administration of that instrument. Brud, Rogoza, and Cieciuch (2020) offer a later empirical example linking dark-personality traits with deadly-sin dimensions, supporting the framework without validating this online version.
Self-reported answers and descriptive bands rather than published population norms mean results can vary with current context and are not clinical classifications.
- Veselka, Livia, Erica A. Giammarco, and Philip A. Vernon. (2014). The Dark Triad and the seven deadly sins. Personality and Individual Differences, 67, 75-80. 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.055
- Brud, Piotr Pawel, Radoslaw Rogoza, and Jan Cieciuch. (2020). Personality underpinnings of dark personalities: An example of Dark Triad and deadly sins. Personality and Individual Differences, 163, 110085. 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110085
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