Neurodiversity and Executive Functioning Self-Assessment
Focuses on everyday executive skills like planning, organisation, managing time, and regulating emotions and behaviour.
What is executive function?
Executive function is the set of mental skills that help us plan, organise, manage time, stay focused, get started, regulate emotion, and follow through on what matters. It varies a lot between people and is part of many neurodivergent and neurotypical profiles. This self-assessment helps you see your strengths and challenges.
What this assessment explores
Executive functioning is the set of skills that help you plan, organise, manage your time, regulate your emotions, and follow through on things – the mental infrastructure that keeps daily life running. For many people with ADHD, autism, or other neurodevelopmental differences, these skills can be genuinely harder, and it's not always obvious which areas are most affected. This assessment helps you map that out. It's built on the ESQ-R, a validated measure used in clinical and educational settings.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 25 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you manage different aspects of daily functioning.
The questions touch on things like:
- Planning – your ability to break tasks into steps and follow them through
- Time management – how you relate to deadlines, schedules, and the passage of time
- Organisation – keeping track of things, spaces, and priorities
- Emotional regulation – managing emotional responses in the moment
- Behavioural regulation – acting in line with your intentions rather than your impulses
Your responses give you a clearer picture of where your executive functioning is working well – and where targeted support might make the biggest difference.
Dr Simon Baker
Research Fellow
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
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