Optimistic Thinking Self-Assessment
Explores how hopeful or optimistic you tend to feel about the future.
What this assessment explores
How you tend to think about the future – whether you generally expect things to work out or brace for them to go wrong – shapes more of your life than you might realise. This assessment explores your dispositional optimism: not just your mood right now, but the deeper orientation you carry toward what's coming. It's built on the LOT-R, a widely used personality measure with strong associations with wellbeing, health, and resilience.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 10 questions – some of them quite direct, others a little more indirect. They're designed that way to get a more accurate picture of your underlying orientation.
The questions touch on things like:
- How confident you feel that things will generally work out
- Whether you tend to expect the best or prepare for the worst
- How you approach challenges – with persistence, or with a pull toward giving up
Your responses give you a clearer picture of where you sit on the optimism–pessimism spectrum – and what that might mean for how you're moving through your life.
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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