The last four questions of the Resilience Survey some of you took recently measured our self-evaluations for:
- Being on track with life-goals
- Living according to our core values
- Satisfaction with our productivity and effectiveness
- Optimism about the future
These were the ‘outcome’ variables of the survey, and were intended to measure something like ‘how well we are doing’ in our lives, ‘personal success’ or ‘flourishing’.
The data support the idea these usefully triangulate on ‘personal-success’, with fairly high Cronbach’s Alpha (0.76) and highly significant cross correlations.
The distribution of averaged scores for ‘personal-success’ is shown below. The distribution is approximately normal.
In this graph, scores go from 1 = most positive to 5 = most negative scores for this measure of ‘personal-success’.
The Test
You can do a quick test for your own ‘personal-success’ here. Answer each question, add the scores and find the average by dividing by four. Note that the first question is ‘reverse scored’.
I find it difficult to stay on track with my life goals.
1. Strongly Agree. 2. Agree. 3. Neither Agree nor Disagree.4. Disagree. 5. Strongly Disagree.
I feel that I am living according to my core values.
5. Strongly Agree. 4. Agree. 3. Neither Agree nor Disagree. 2. Disagree. 1. Strongly Disagree.
I am generally satisfied with how productive and effective I am.
5. Strongly Agree. 4. Agree. 3. Neither Agree nor Disagree. 2. Disagree. 1. Strongly Disagree.
I am optimistic about what the future has in store for me.
5. Strongly Agree. 4. Agree. 3. Neither Agree nor Disagree. 2. Disagree. 1. Strongly Disagree.
Scoring
Anything below 3.35 (average), and you could benefit from some brain cross training to increase your resilience and performance!
