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Standards & Pressure

These scores separate what you expect from yourself from how much pressure you feel while trying to meet those expectations.

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Standards & Pressure

Personal Standards

79%

Higher than typical

Inner Pressure

84%

Higher than typical

These scores separate what you expect from yourself from how much pressure you feel while trying to meet those expectations.

Personal Standards: How strongly you aim to do things properly, stay organized, meet responsibilities, and follow through.

Inner Pressure: How strongly uncertainty, mistakes, deadlines, or being evaluated may weigh on you.

These are separate tendencies. Your standards can be high while the pressure you feel is low, or the other way around.

What this means

These scores separate what you expect from yourself from how much pressure you feel while trying to meet those expectations.

  • Personal Standards
    How strongly you aim to do things properly, stay organized, meet responsibilities, and follow through.
  • Inner Pressure
    How strongly uncertainty, mistakes, deadlines, or being evaluated may weigh on you.

These are separate tendencies. Your standards can be high while the pressure you feel is low, or the other way around.

How to interpret

Low

Read each score separately. Lower Personal Standards suggests more flexibility about planning and completion. Lower Inner Pressure suggests that mistakes, deadlines, or evaluation weigh less heavily.

Medium

A score near the middle indicates a usual level of that tendency. The two scores can still differ from each other.

High

Higher Personal Standards suggests careful planning and follow-through. Higher Inner Pressure suggests that mistakes, deadlines, or evaluation may weigh more heavily.

More details

Personal Standards draws on Achievement-Striving, Dutifulness, and Orderliness. Inner Pressure draws on Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Vulnerability. The two results are compared with the reference group separately; they are not combined into one score.

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