Comparison Results Between You and Your "Twin"

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Dimensional Assessment in Personality Survey Results

Affect Stability		High Affect
Settled Sense of Self		Changing Sense of Self
Interpersonally Highly Independent		Interpersonally Highly Involved
Highly Factual		Highly Imaginative

The Dimensional Assessment in Personality Survey contains statements describing personal preferences and behaviors specifically relating to: affect (feeling), identity (characteristics of self), attachment (relationships with others), and cognition (thinking skills). Your responses to the Dimensional Assessment in Personality Survey indicate that the following statements tend to describe people like you:

• Be emotionally expressive at times with mood changes which were occasionally unpredictable
• Occasionally lack clarity about self, sporadically experience feelings of boredom and have goals that change occasionally altering their future plans
• Experience a moderate amount of discomfort when alone and have some difficulty coping when separated from someone they were close, at times, fearing rejection
• Rarely experience things they feel are strange, clearly see themselves and their surroundings, and experience little difficulty thinking when under stress

Caffeine Survey Results

Low Caffeine Intake		High Caffeine Intake

Your average daily intake of caffeine is 625 milligrams.

People who answered similarly to you tend to drink a relatively large amount of caffeine daily (500-1000mg/day). The average American drinks about 2.6 cups of caffeinated beverages (200-300mg) per day. Remember that your feedback is based upon generalizations, people who responded like you are generally considered to use large amounts of caffeine, but his may not be true of you specifically.

People who answer similarly to your answers have not experienced withdrawal from caffeine.

"Big Five" Personality Survey Results

Closed-Minded		Open to New Experiences
Disorganized		Conscientious
Introverted		Extroverted
Disagreeable		Agreeable
Calm / Relaxed		Nervous / High-Strung

There has been much research on how people describe others, and five major dimensions of human personality have been found. They are often referred to as the OCEAN model of personality, because of the acronym from the names of the five dimensions. Your specific personality indicates that the following attributes will most likely describe you well:

• You are relatively open to new experiences.
• You probably have a messy desk!
• You tend to shy away from social situations.
• You tend to consider the feelings of others.
• You aren't particularly nervous, nor calm.

How to Share Your Results

It's easy to share your results, or even link to your results on web pages and blogs. You should NOT give your password to anyone. (Of course, feel free to share just your username with anyone you want!) You can, however, bookmark THIS page as it does not include your username or password, just your actual scores.

All you need to do is copy the URL from this results page, which has the result scores but none of your private responses. Make sure that you copy the entire following line, including all the variables and numbers!

If you have a website, you can also copy and paste the following HTML code into almost any page to get a link like below:

Check out my personality!
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A Bit More About Your Results

All the feedback you see here is based on statistical analysis of personality data collected from tens of thousands of people. None of the feedback is based on our intuitions or theories about personality. In short, the feedback is entirely driven by the data we have collected.

Sometimes the feedback will give respondents apparently contradictory feedback. This is an unfortunate consequence of making generalizations. Quite often, individuals cannot be captured by the general trends derived from analysis of large numbers of people. Of course, while our generalizations do get it wrong sometimes they tend to get it right more often than not.

We want to emphasize that we are talking about generalizations here, and these generalizations don't apply to all people. To illustrate, consider the generalization that men are generally taller than women. This does not mean that every man is taller than every woman. Instead, it means that, on average, men are taller than women. This same logic applies to the feedback that is given on this site. Even though, on average, people tend to become more conscientious as they get older, not everyone follows this pattern.

If you are interested in further information, you should look at the OutOfService site, which has a number of personality tests based on ongoing personality research. Click here to continue on to the other personality tests on this site.

Links to Additional Information

During our survey, we may have asked you questions regarding depression or alcohol. The following two links may be of interest to individuals who have answered questions on either topic. These links are being given with ALL results.

• More information on depression: http://www.depression-screening.org
• Further information on alcohol: http://www.alcoholscreening.org

Finally, if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us with them.