Personality
What Actually Drives You
Six values, and which one you protect when they collide.
How this is scored
24 items across six values that values research treats as competing rather than stacking: autonomy, adventure, achievement, security, care and fairness. Every item asks you to choose under pressure, because a value only shows itself when it costs something. It reports the order you rank them in, not how good a person you are.
Academic References & Background
- Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theoretical advances and empirical tests in 20 countries. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 1-65.
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The 7 possible results
Every answer nudges you toward one of these. Here is what each one means.
Autonomy leads
You protect the right to choose before you protect the outcome. That is why good advice can still feel like an attack, and why a job that is comfortable but supervised will wear you down faster than a hard one you run yourself.
Adventure leads
You would rather be uncomfortable than bored, and you commit to things before you have read them properly. That is a real advantage in situations nobody has a procedure for, and a real problem in the ninth month of anything.
Achievement leads
You want the work to be seen, and you measure yourself against the people who started where you started. That drives real output, and it also means your sense of a good year depends on something you only partly control.
Security leads
You buy certainty, and you pay for it in options. Having next month covered is not timidity, it is what lets you stay calm while other people panic, and in a bad year that is the whole game.
Care leads
Your first read of any situation is who in it is struggling, and you rearrange yourself around that without being asked. It makes you the person others come to, and it means your own week is the first thing you spend.
Fairness leads
You react to the principle before the personality, including when the unfairness is in your favour. That is rarer than people think, and it is why you end up saying the thing everyone else was waiting for someone to say.
No single value leads
Your six values came out close together, which usually means one of two things. Either you genuinely weigh them case by case, which is a real position and a hard one to hold, or the questions did not catch you in a moment where any of them cost you anything.
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What does the What Actually Drives You measure?
Six values, and which one you protect when they collide. 24 items across six values that values research treats as competing rather than stacking: autonomy, adventure, achievement, security, care and fairness. Every item asks you to choose under pressure, because a value only shows itself when it costs something. It reports the order you rank them in, not how good a person you are.
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