Self-esteem Self-Assessment

Helps you reflect on how you see and value yourself, including your sense of confidence and self-worth.

Self-awareness
5 minFree & PrivateClinically informed
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What this assessment explores

Self-esteem isn't just about confidence – it's about how you fundamentally feel about yourself as a person. Whether you believe you're worthy, capable, and of value. This assessment explores your overall sense of self-worth: both how you feel about your abilities and how you feel about yourself at a deeper, more intrinsic level. It's built on the RSES, one of the most widely used self-esteem measures in the world.

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What you can expect

There are 10 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you tend to think and feel about yourself.

The questions touch on things like:

  • Self-competence – your confidence in your own abilities and sense of efficacy
  • Self-liking – your intrinsic sense of worth as a person, independent of what you achieve

Your responses give you a clear picture of where your self-esteem sits right now – and whether low self-esteem might be playing a role in how you're feeling more broadly.

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.

Top tips

Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:

Usually your first instinct is the right one
Try not to over think each question.
Try not to get stuck on specific words
If a statement is 'mostly true' for you, don't get stuck on the word 'always'.
Be consistent in how you rate
If 'often' means weekly to you, apply that meaning throughout.

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