Stress Self-Assessment
Explores how you tend to respond when life gets hard – including the patterns that are helping you, and the ones that might be quietly making things heavier.
What this assessment explores
When life gets hard, we all find ways to cope – some that help us through, and some that quietly make things heavier. This assessment explores how you tend to respond when you're under pressure, and helps you see your coping patterns more clearly. There's no right or wrong here. It's built on the Brief-COPE, a widely used research measure.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 28 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you've been responding to something stressful in your life recently. You might recognise some patterns straight away – others might surprise you. The questions touch on things like:
- Whether you tend to face difficulties head-on or step back from them
- How you use relationships and support when things are hard
- Whether you turn to distraction, avoidance, or other ways of managing
- How you make sense of what's happening – emotionally and mentally
Your responses paint a picture of both the strategies that are working for you and the ones that might be worth looking at more closely.
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:
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