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Self-insight surveys

Surveys that get to know you, then track how you grow.

Sixteen in-depth trait profiles and six repeatable weekly pulses, plus a daily thirty-second check-in. They build a private picture of how you work, recommend the games and tools built for what you want to change, and chart your progress as you retake them. Reflective self-insight, on your device. Never a clinical assessment.

22surveys + a daily check-in
One set of answers, two jobs

From answers to a picture of you, then to your next session.

Each survey is short and written for everyday life, not the clinic. Your answers become a private signal profile, a flat map of qualities like focus, stress, warmth, and resilience. That one profile powers everything else: it picks the few games and tools built for what you want to change, and it gives your progress a real baseline to be measured against.

your answersa picture of youyour next sessioncomputed from your own data, on your device (illustrative)
From answers to action: your responses build a picture of you, and the picture picks the games and tools that fit. Illustrative.
The full set

Twenty-two surveys across three themes.

Every survey is built to be retaken on its own rhythm, from weekly pulses to yearly trait check-ins, so your picture stays current and your growth shows up as a trend you can watch. Each names the public construct it draws on; we write our own items and never reproduce the validated instruments themselves.

Who you are

The stable traits that shape how you think, decide, and do your best work.

Five Dimensions

Track yearly

A spectrum portrait across openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, warmth, and emotional sensitivity.

You’ll learnExactly where you land on five trait spectrums, and which to lean on or stretch.
Recommends
Low follow-through points to focus games (N-Back, Trail Making) and the tool Find the Next Small Step.
Built on
The five-factor (Big Five) trait model (Goldberg, 1990; McCrae & Costa, 1987).
Spectrum profile

Cognitive Style

Track twice a year

How you naturally process information: analytical, intuitive, creative, methodical, or verbal.

You’ll learnYour top thinking modes, so you can play to them or deliberately stretch.
Recommends
Analytical leans to deductive games (Sudoku, Odd One Out); creative to divergent ones (Alternative Uses).
Built on
Cognitive-style research (Allinson & Hayes, 1996; Sternberg mental self-government).
Ranked styles

What Drives You

Track quarterly

Your primary motivational engine: autonomy, mastery, purpose, or recognition.

You’ll learnThe single driver that best explains the work you do.
Recommends
Surfaces your driver and routes to the quests and packs that play to it.
Built on
Self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000).
Your top driver

Your Standards

Track quarterly

Separates high standards (striving) from self-critical concern, the part that actually hurts.

You’ll learnWhether your perfectionism is healthy striving or the costly, self-critical kind.
Recommends
High concern routes to self-compassion tools like Speak to Yourself Like a Friend.
Built on
The strivings-vs-concerns model of perfectionism (Frost et al., 1990).
Quadrant map

Staying Power

Track quarterly

Grit across two facets: perseverance of effort and consistency of interest.

You’ll learnHow much grit you bring once the early novelty wears off.
Recommends
A low read points to focus tools and Make an If-Then Plan to protect follow-through.
Built on
The two-factor model of grit (Duckworth et al., 2007).
Spectrum profile

Your Outlook

Track quarterly

Dispositional optimism: how you expect things to go, and how fast you recover after a knock.

You’ll learnYour default optimism and how quickly you find your feet after a setback.
Recommends
A pessimistic baseline routes to reappraisal and gratitude practices.
Built on
Dispositional optimism and explanatory style (Scheier & Carver, 1985).
Spectrum profile

Quick Thinking

Track quarterly

A self-read on mental quickness under pressure and spatial sense.

You’ll learnA baseline for mental speed and spatial sense you can watch sharpen over time.
Recommends
Low quickness points to Speed Reading; low spatial sense to Mental Rotation.
Built on
Processing-speed theory (Salthouse, 1996) and mental rotation (Shepard & Metzler, 1971).
Spectrum profile

Chronotype

Track twice a year

Your natural daily rhythm: early lark, morning person, evening person, or night owl.

You’ll learnYour peak hours, so you can schedule hard work when you are sharpest.
Recommends
Anchors the best-window analyzer so the app suggests when to schedule your sharpest work.
Built on
Morningness-eveningness research (Horne & Östberg, 1976).
Your top driver

How you relate

How you connect, handle conflict, lead, and show up for the people around you.

How You Attach

Track twice a year

A two-axis read on relational style: attachment anxiety and avoidance.

You’ll learnWhere you sit on anxiety and avoidance, and what that means for closeness.
Recommends
High anxiety pulls in regulation and reframing tools; high avoidance pulls in warmth and empathy practice.
Built on
Adult attachment theory (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991; Brennan et al., 1998).
Quadrant map

In Conflict

Track quarterly

Your default conflict styles: competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, accommodating.

You’ll learnThe styles you reach for first when friction hits.
Recommends
Routes to communication tools such as Say It With "I" and Give Feedback That Lands.
Built on
The Thomas-Kilmann conflict-mode framework (Thomas & Kilmann, 1974).
Ranked styles

Empathy in Action

Track quarterly

The three working parts of empathy: perspective-taking, empathic concern, and personal distress.

You’ll learnYour balance of perspective, care, and how much of others’ pain you absorb.
Recommends
Low perspective-taking points to Face Read and Step Into Their Day; high distress to regulation first.
Built on
Multidimensional empathy research (Davis, 1983).
Spectrum profile

How You Lead

Track quarterly

Four self-leadership skills: composure, feedback courage, ownership of mistakes, and trust.

You’ll learnYour strongest and shakiest sides of carrying responsibility, whatever you lead.
Recommends
Routes to the Leadership kit, including Give Feedback That Lands.
Built on
Psychological safety (Edmondson, 1999) and autonomy support (self-determination theory).
Spectrum profile

Connection

Track weekly

Felt social connection across belonging, closeness, and felt support.

You’ll learnHow connected you feel right now, tracked week to week.
Recommends
A low read routes to social and emotional-intelligence tools like Listen Without Fixing.
Built on
Social-connection and loneliness research (Russell, 1996; Hughes et al., 2004).
Spectrum profile

How you feel & cope

Your inner voice, stress, sleep, and recovery, plus weekly pulses that track how you are doing.

Inner Voice

Track quarterly

How you treat yourself when things go badly: self-kindness, common humanity, and balanced awareness.

You’ll learnHow kind or harsh you are with yourself when things go wrong.
Recommends
Low self-kindness routes to Speak to Yourself Like a Friend and the Resilience kit.
Built on
The three-component model of self-compassion (Neff, 2003).
Spectrum profile

How You Handle Feelings

Track quarterly

Your two dominant regulation habits: reframing (reappraisal) and bottling (suppression).

You’ll learnWhether you reframe, bottle, or both, and the very different places each leads.
Recommends
Low reframing points to Reframe Quest; high bottling to expression and processing practices.
Built on
The process model of emotion regulation (Gross & John, 2003).
Quadrant map

Resilience

Track quarterly

Four sides of moving through setbacks: recovery speed, reframing, support-seeking, and persistence.

You’ll learnYour strongest and weakest sides of bouncing back.
Recommends
Low recovery routes to Reframe Quest and Treat Mistakes as Data.
Built on
Resilience research (Connor & Davidson, 2003; Smith et al., 2008).
Spectrum profile

Stress Triggers

Track monthly

Where stress shows up most: which life domains pull you off-center.

You’ll learnThe life domains that pull you off-center most, ranked.
Recommends
Your top domain routes to the matching kit, e.g. Beat Procrastination for work overload.
Built on
Life-domain stress inventories (Cohen et al., 1983, PSS tradition).
Ranked styles

Wellbeing Pulse

Track weekly

Five facets of the past week: mood, calm, energy, rest, and interest.

You’ll learnA weekly read on how you are really doing, charted as it moves.
Recommends
A low week routes to the Calm & Reset pack and gentler tools.
Built on
The WHO-5 wellbeing domains (Topp et al., 2015).
Spectrum profile

Affect Balance

Track weekly

The two independent streams of feeling: positive and negative affect, side by side.

You’ll learnYour positive and negative feeling, weighed against each other over time.
Recommends
High negative affect routes to Box Breathing and reframing practice.
Built on
The two-factor model of affect (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988).
Spectrum profile

Stress Appraisal

Track weekly

How stressful the week has felt: overload versus your sense of control.

You’ll learnHow heavy the week felt against how in-control you felt, week to week.
Recommends
High overload routes to Box Breathing and Find the Next Small Step.
Built on
The transactional model of stress (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).
Spectrum profile

Presence

Track weekly

How present and settled your attention has been: present attention and steadiness.

You’ll learnHow present and settled your attention has been lately, tracked over time.
Recommends
A scattered read routes to attention games (N-Back) and Ground With Your Senses.
Built on
Dispositional-mindfulness research (Brown & Ryan, 2003).
Spectrum profile

Sleep Pulse

Track weekly

How the week of sleep went: quality, wind-down, and daytime carry-over.

You’ll learnHow your week of sleep actually went, falling asleep through to the days after.
Recommends
A rough week routes to the Wind Down kit and a cool-down audio session.
Built on
Sleep-health domains (Buysse et al., 1989, PSQI tradition).
Spectrum profile
Growth you can see

Repeat the pulses, and watch the line move.

The pulses are not a quiz you read once and forget. Retake them on their weekly rhythm and the app charts the trend, so your progress is measured over time, not guessed. Each retake is stored with the version it was taken under, so older results never get overwritten and the comparison stays honest.

In-app survey score over repeated pulses. Sample data, not a clinical measure.

Climbing

Scores trend up across retakes. The app keeps the practices that are working and gently raises the challenge.

Holding steady

A flat, healthy line is real progress when life is busy. Maintenance gets named, not mistaken for stalling.

Dipping

An early dip in a pulse is the point of taking it. The app surfaces it before a hard week compounds and offers a lighter routine.

A daily thirty-second check-in on mood, energy, and focus keeps the picture current between pulses. In-the-moment reports dodge memory bias (Shiffman et al., 2008).

Results that act

Every result points to a guided practice.

A result is never a dead-end label. The matching engine reads your signal profile and surfaces one or two brain games and one or two mental tools built for exactly what the survey flagged, so insight turns straight into a rep you can do today.

Stress Appraisal: A high-overload week with low felt control

guides you to ↓

🎮 Color Sort🎮 Douse🧰 Box Breathing🧰 Find the Next Small Step

Quick Thinking: Lower mental quickness under time pressure

guides you to ↓

🎮 Speed Reading🎮 Reaction Drill🧰 Focus primer audio

Inner Voice: A harsh, self-critical inner voice

guides you to ↓

🎮 Reframe Quest🧰 Speak to Yourself Like a Friend🧰 Accept Imperfections

Empathy in Action: Strong concern but easily flooded by others

guides you to ↓

🎮 Face Read🧰 Ground With Your Senses🧰 Listen Without Fixing

Browse the full catalogue: Brain Games and Mental Tools.

What the surveys are built on

Grounded in real research, scoped honestly.

Every survey draws on a public, well-studied construct from personality, emotion, motivation, and wellbeing research. We name the framework as inspiration and write our own items for a wellness-app context. These are reflective tools, not the validated clinical instruments, and they diagnose nothing.

Two boundaries we hold. First, naming a construct (the Big Five, attachment theory, the WHO-5 domains) means we drew on the public idea, not that we administer the copyrighted scale. Second, the surveys build a picture of how you work so the app can recommend your next games and tools. The picture stays on your device. mindima is a training app for general wellbeing, not a medical device, and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.

References

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For the wider evidence base behind the training itself, see the science page.

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