Cognitive Flexibility Self-Assessment
Explores how easily you adapt your thinking, consider different solutions, and respond to challenging situations.
What this assessment explores
When life gets difficult, some people are able to shift their thinking and find a way through – others get stuck in the same loop, no matter how much they want to move on. This assessment explores how flexibly you're able to think when you're under pressure – whether you can see alternative explanations, find different solutions, and feel some sense of control over what's happening. It's built on the CFI, a measure used in cognitive behavioural settings to understand how thinking patterns respond to challenge.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 20 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you tend to think when things get hard.
The questions touch on things like:
- Whether you're able to see multiple explanations for difficult situations – or whether one interpretation tends to take over
- How easily you can generate different solutions when you're stuck
- Whether you tend to feel some control over hard situations, or like things are happening to you
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how flexibly your mind is working right now – and where there might be room to build a different relationship with difficulty.
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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