Soul 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
- Let the group experiment until a direction emerges
- Ask one or two questions to clarify the next step
- Help define roles, deadlines, and a workable sequence
- Create a simple outline while leaving room for changes
- Explore it seriously and let the questions lead where they may
- Compare it with my existing view before deciding what fits
- Note it without feeling much need to investigate further
- Read or ask enough to understand why others find it persuasive
- Organizing the established material so it is accurate and clear
- Polishing the presentation with a few memorable details
- Designing a fresh format that gives the material new energy
- Combining proven elements with an imaginative theme
Soul Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People who want a compact way to reflect on how they create, protect, support, and explore may find the Soul Quiz useful. It suits readers curious about recurring soul archetypes rather than fixed labels. Your responses offer a practical prompt for considering creativity, responsibility, care, uncertainty, and discovery in everyday choices, without requiring you to treat one category as a complete description of you.
What This Assessment Explores
Situations cover ambiguity, responsibility, creativity, care, continuity, and discovery. Readers curious about archetypal patterns can consider motivational preferences.
These are the four scales and bands:
- Creator Soul (0-12) is energized by imagination, personal expression, experimentation, and turning original ideas into something tangible; Practical Maker (0-4), Inspired Maker (5-8), and Creator at Heart (9-12).
- Guardian Soul (0-12) values reliability, continuity, thoughtful structure, and protecting what people depend upon; Flexible Steward (0-4), Dependable Steward (5-8), and Guardian at Heart (9-12).
- Nurturer Soul (0-12) finds meaning in emotional presence, encouragement, and helping relationships grow without requiring self-sacrifice; Selective Supporter (0-4), Steady Supporter (5-8), and Nurturer at Heart (9-12).
- Seeker Soul (0-12) is drawn to discovery, freedom, fresh perspectives, and paths open to possibility; Rooted Explorer (0-4), Active Explorer (5-8), and Seeker at Heart (9-12).
The strongest orientation leads, while close scores may blend.
Methodology and Evidence Base
This online self-reflection questionnaire presents each prompt as a situation followed by four reactions, inviting the respondent to identify the closest fit across themes. The results are reported on four scales: the highest score indicates strongest affinity, and outcomes within one point of it form a blended result.
The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Pearson's 12-archetype framework, which treats archetypes as recurring motivational patterns. Blandin, Marr, and Pearson's 2021 PMAI manual provides related assessment context, while Faber and Mayer's 2009 study examines how people resonate with archetypal patterns. These sources provide theory and comparison rather than validation of this specific format.
The displayed bands are descriptive labels for result ranges. Self-report can be influenced by mood, recent experiences, social expectations, and self-awareness, so results may shift with context. The profile is most useful for noticing themes without reducing a complex person to one category.
- Pearson, Carol S. Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World. HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
- Blandin, Kesstan, Hugh K. Marr, and Carol S. Pearson. PMAI Manual. Center for Applications of Psychological Type, 2021.
- Faber, Michael A., and John D. Mayer. "Resonance to Archetypes in Media: There's Some Accounting for Taste." Journal of Research in Personality, vol. 43, no. 3, 2009, pp. 307-322. 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.11.003
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