When does confidence become a need for recognition? What happens when someone else receives the credit, a boundary applies to you or feedback challenges the image you want to present? Your answers can reveal a different balance in each situation.
Take the free Narcissism Profile Test: 56 original questions exploring 8 separate areas. The questionnaire and basic information are free. Your detailed personal analysis is optional.
Explore the differences behind your answers
This test explores how recognition, status, expectations and reactions to other people fit together. Being willing to lead, enjoying a compliment and expecting an exception are different experiences. A single total can miss those distinctions, so your report keeps eight areas separate.
Think of an ordinary recent situation rather than the answer you believe you should give. The same overall impression can come from very different choices. Keeping the areas separate allows you to compare the parts of your profile without forcing every answer into one description.
What the 56 questions explore
Need for admiration
How strongly being noticed and praised contributes to your sense of personal importance.
Status and superiority
The importance of ranking above other people and being associated with people or settings seen as prestigious.
Expectations of special treatment
Whether you expect exceptions, priority or additional consideration because you see your needs as more important.
Rivalry and comparison
The tendency to experience another person’s success as a challenge and respond by protecting your relative standing.
Managing the impression
The effort devoted to maintaining a favourable image, including when it conflicts with acknowledging ordinary limitations.
Sensitivity to criticism
How strongly correction or disagreement affects your sense of importance and your response to the person giving it.
Ownership of credit
How you describe shared achievements and respond when the contribution of other people becomes visible.
Unequal give and take
Whether other people’s needs and boundaries receive the same consideration you expect for your own.
A report built around your responses
The detailed report follows your actual selections. Each area receives its own score and interpretation, and every saved answer remains available to review. You can compare what stands out, where your responses are more mixed and which statements explain a difference between two areas.
Reading the explanation alongside the answer review matters. Two people can reach a similar score through different responses. The questionnaire organises the experiences or positions you select; it does not supply the circumstances of your life or decide what other people think.
How to take the test
Think about your usual reactions over recent months, across relationships, work, study and social situations. Choose how strongly each statement describes you. Some statements describe a different direction of response, so read each one separately. Answer about yourself rather than guessing how another person thinks. There are 56 statements and five response options. Allow around 7-11 minutes.
Read each sentence on its own terms. Some statements point in the opposite direction, so selecting the same option automatically will not express a consistent position. If a statement feels difficult, consider one real example and choose the option closest to your usual response or view.
Free basic information and optional detailed analysis
You can complete the questionnaire and read the basic information without making a purchase. If you want to explore the detail, the optional report opens all 8 area scores, the interpretations matched to them, a complete review of your 56 answers and practical reflection prompts.
Your purchase also includes the downloadable personal report and the companion e-book Recognition, Confidence and Other People. One optional payment unlocks this additional material. There is no recurring plan.
Understand the scoring
Each area summarises responses to its own statements on a 0-100 scale. The values do not add to 100 and do not tell you what percentage of people are like you. The explanation in the full report shows how points are calculated and how to read the descriptive ranges.
This version uses original Mind Indicator questions. Research in the bibliography provides background for the topic. Published questionnaires and their population norms have not been copied or applied to the new statements.
Questions before you begin
How long does it take?
Allow about 7-11 minutes for 56 statements. You can take the time you need to read them carefully.
Do I need to choose an identity or label first?
No. Answer the statements separately. Your report compares the areas and keeps the underlying responses visible, so an existing label does not need to decide your choices.
What makes the detailed report personal?
Your selections determine the score and interpretation in each area. The full answer review lets you follow the connection from an individual statement to the summary rather than relying only on a general description.
