Values Test
A calm look at what steers your choices right now, with no good or bad answers, only a snapshot of today.
≈5 min Questions: 24
If you’re here, you may have wondered lately what actually moves you. This test does not judge whether you are a good person; it shows how what you care about is arranged right now. Choose the answer that feels closest today, not the one that sounds best. It takes about five minutes, and at the end you see which of four broad orientations leads, along with your profile across all four. Sometimes it helps just to see what you find yourself protecting.
Values Test
Openness to Change
You don't hate rules. You just want to see for yourself.
It seems you tend to reopen questions others consider settled, and a routine with no change starts to press on you.
Nothing in that needs fixing. Trusting your own read is usually something you learned works, so you keep going back to it.
This is a snapshot of today; values keep moving, and they move most in early adulthood. No orientation outranks another, and none of this points to a particular job, relationship or path.
Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence are the next-door neighbors. If either comes in close behind, take it seriously: the first wants recognition, the second turns your curiosity toward other people.
Moving first comes naturally to you, which is also why a ready-made procedure can feel slow. You can be gentle about that.
One small step: write down one question you have been treating as settled.
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Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
Values Test
Openness to Change
You don't hate rules. You just want to see for yourself.
It seems you tend to reopen questions others consider settled, and a routine with no change starts to press on you.
Nothing in that needs fixing. Trusting your own read is usually something you learned works, so you keep going back to it.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
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Values Test
Self-Enhancement
Why should wanting to be seen feel embarrassing? Effort likes a witness.
It looks like it matters to you who saw the work, and when a group stalls you step in.
That needs no apology. Effort wants somewhere to land, and being seen is one of the oldest ways it does.
Turning effort into leverage is a strength, and it can leave less room for someone else's independence. Quiet work counts too.
Take this as today's snapshot: values shift over the years, especially in early adulthood. It favors no orientation over another and says nothing about what career or relationship would fit.
Openness to Change and Conservation sit on either side, and a near-tie with either counts as real signal. With Conservation the research itself cannot separate the two cleanly, because status can be a way of keeping control and avoiding shame.
One small step: text one friend about something you did well that nobody saw.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
Values Test
Self-Enhancement
Why should wanting to be seen feel embarrassing? Effort likes a witness.
It looks like it matters to you who saw the work, and when a group stalls you step in.
That needs no apology. Effort wants somewhere to land, and being seen is one of the oldest ways it does.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
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Values Test
Conservation
Steadiness is a kind of courage. Somebody has to hold the thread.
Judging by your answers, you like knowing how a day goes, and you keep to the steps as written.
Wanting things to hold is a way of caring, not a lack of nerve. Steadiness is how a shaken mind settles.
Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence are the neighbors, and the literature admits both borders are hard to draw: status can serve shame-avoidance, and giving way can be care or plain expectation, with only motive telling them apart. A close second in either is a genuine signal.
These answers speak only for today. Over time, and especially in young adulthood, values change, and no lean ranks above another or hints at which work, relationship or path suits you.
Being dependable and finding upheaval hard come from one root, so an unsettled stretch can weigh on you. Needing predictability is allowed.
One small step: walk ten minutes along a street you don't usually take.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
Values Test
Conservation
Steadiness is a kind of courage. Somebody has to hold the thread.
Judging by your answers, you like knowing how a day goes, and you keep to the steps as written.
Wanting things to hold is a way of caring, not a lack of nerve. Steadiness is how a shaken mind settles.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
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Values Test
Self-Transcendence
You keep the door open for everyone. That takes real energy.
You often notice the stranger treated unfairly, and you make room for views far from yours.
Caring beyond your own circle is a way of valuing, and it asks for no apology. Attention flows toward people because that is where you find meaning.
Read it as today's picture: values move over time, earlier in adulthood most of all. It ranks nothing above anything else and names no fitting job, relationship or path.
Conservation and Openness to Change are next door, and either one close behind is a real signal. With Openness the line is clean: same curiosity, aimed at other people. With Conservation it is a genuinely open question, since setting aside your interests can be care or plain going along.
Attention this wide can make it easy to overlook what you need yourself. That counts as well.
One small step: make yourself a cup of tea and drink it sitting down.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
Values Test
Self-Transcendence
You keep the door open for everyone. That takes real energy.
You often notice the stranger treated unfairly, and you make room for views far from yours.
Caring beyond your own circle is a way of valuing, and it asks for no apology. Attention flows toward people because that is where you find meaning.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
How this test works
Where the questions come from, what the scale rests on, and why the result is not a diagnosis.
The test measures which of four broad value orientations (openness to change, self-enhancement, conservation and self-transcendence) a person's answers lean toward today, with a profile across all four.
Methodology
Each result answers one question: toward which of four broad directions do the answers lean most? The directions come from a well-known theory of personal values, which treats a value as something a person holds important and arranges values around a circle. Directions that go together easily sit side by side, and those across the circle tend to pull apart. They are called openness to change, self-enhancement, conservation and self-transcendence.
The questions were written for this test, six for each direction, and each takes a different everyday situation or general leaning. Answers run from weakly to strongly expressed, the totals form a profile of four scales, and the highest is named as the main result. The answers are the respondent's own description, which is also the usual route in the field, described in more detail in the reference material on measurement methods.
Two things keep the picture modest. For two of the four pairs of neighboring directions, the theory's own literature cannot draw a clean line, so those edges are described through what people do. And since the data are self-descriptions, a value that sounds admirable can be rated higher than it shows in how a person lives. A result is where the answers pointed today, not a settled trait, a ranking, or a guide for choosing work, relationships or a direction in life.
The test is not a diagnostic instrument and does not stand in for a specialist.
Questions
How is a values test different from a personality test?
Personality is about how someone typically behaves, and it holds fairly steady from early on. Values are about what someone treats as important enough to protect, and these can move across life stages.
Can my values change?
They can. Values shift over the years, most noticeably in early adulthood. Coming back to the test later and getting a different lean is normal, and it does not mean the first result was wrong.
Does the result say which career or relationship suits me?
It does not go that far. What you get is the direction your answers pointed today. Choices about work, people or where to live depend on much more than that.
What are personal values?
Values are the things held up as worth caring about: the standards behind calling something good, and the reasons a person defends certain things and goes after others.
How many values should matter most?
A handful tends to be the natural size. Once a list of values grows long and nobody ranks it, everything on it counts equally, and nothing steers. That is why the test folds a wide range of specific values into four broad directions.
Sources
- Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An Overview of the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). doi:10.9707/2307-0919.1116
- Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Vecchione, M., Davidov, E., Fischer, R., Beierlein, C., Ramos, A., Verkasalo, M., Lönnqvist, J.-E., Demirutku, K., Dirilen-Gumus, O., & Konty, M. (2012). Refining the Theory of Basic Individual Values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(4), 663–688.
- Rokeach, M. (1973). The Nature of Human Values. New York: Free Press.
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