18 Quick Ways to Assess Your Happiness

18 Little Known Self Assessments from the Field of Positive Psychology

by Jordan Myska Allen, a lover of life and entrepreneur. He acts as a psychological, spiritual, and professional consultant and practices applied integral thinking.

Knowing thyself is perhaps easier than ever with the bevy of psychological tools, tests, and assessments available to us free online.

These tests are especially useful for areas of your self system that are hard to see from the inside—such as unexamined biases, which you can discover with an Implicit Association Test, (part of ongoing research at the University of Washington, University of Virginia, Harvard University, and Yale University).

When it comes to happiness, researchers in the field of Positive Psychology have developed a number of useful, free, online instruments, available through the University of Pennsylvania website:

authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/questionnaires.aspx. You must register before filling them out, allowing them to use your responses (but not your personal information) in research studies.

Check out the following list, and take a survey in an area you would like to know more about yourself in.

Emotion Questionnaires:

Authentic Happiness Inventory Questionnaire

CES-D Questionnaire – Measures Depression Symptoms

Fordyce Emotions Questionnaire – Measures Current Happiness

General Happiness Questionnaire

PANAS Questionnaire – Measures Positive and Negative Affect

Engagement Questionnaires:

Brief Strengths Test – Measures 24 Character Strengths

Gratitude Questionnaire

Grit Survey – Measures the Character Strength of Perserverance

Optimism Test