Psychological Resilience Test: bounce back from adversity

This interactive test covers anticipation, rumination, control, fatigue, support, loneliness, isolation, shame, guilt, hope, identity, attachment, plans and openness to change. What the test asks, for example Anticipation Whether a headache that will not go away already makes you imagine something serious. Whether you book the trip in advance and take out cancellation insurance. Rumination Whether bad news keeps weighing on you long after the situation has been resolved. Whether, when a planned outing falls through, you move on to something else without dwelling on it. Control Whether you go away for a weekend with the accommodation, meals and travel all booked in advance. Whether, when you have furniture to assemble without instructions, you get down to it and manage it. Fatigue Whether, when a breakdown, a late payment and a sick child pile up, you fall apart. Whether, in the middle of a difficult period, you keep making appointments for the weeks ahead. Support Whether you carry the boxes without help even though a neighbor had offered to help you. Whether, when a neighbor offers to do your shopping while you are sick in bed, you say yes. Loneliness Whether, when you go through a difficult period, you keep everything to yourself without talking about it to anyone. Whether there are numbers in your phone that you would dial in the middle of the night if things went badly. Isolation Whether, in the middle of a family meal, your worries cut you off. Whether there is a group — neighborhood, club, extended family — where your absence would be noticed. Shame Whether you keep quiet about your worries to spare others, even when they ask. Whether, when something has been weighing on you for a while, you call someone and say so. Guilt Whether, when a group project fails, you blame yourself before you have even thought it through. Whether, the day after a bad day, you get up on time and get back to it. Hope Whether a car breakdown makes you tell yourself it is going to be like this all year. Whether, after bad news, you quickly get back to looking for a way out. Identity Whether, at the worst point of a difficult experience, what you are going through seems to serve no purpose and make no sense at all. Whether you can tell someone your life story, including the hard years. Attachment Whether, when someone does you a favor, you immediately look for a way to return it, unable to simply say thank you. Whether, after a call with someone close to you, you breathe more easily than before the call. Plans Whether, in bad times, you would be unable to say what matters to you. Whether, even in a dark period, you know where you are heading. Openness to change Whether what you have just described matters in how you function day to day. Whether you want to get better at working with this way of functioning.