The three global dimensions of the SFPQ are further divided into three subscales each.

• Independence=Autonomy, Individualism and Self Reliance
• Industriousness=Achievement, Endurance, and Seriousness
• Methodicalness=Cognitive Structure, Deliberateness and Order

The graph indicates your percentile scores and your team percentile scores which reflect the proportion of people in the normative sample that obtained a score lower or equal to the specific trait score. The factor scale percentile scores can range from 0 to 99 percent. Divided by High, High Average, Average, Low Average and Low, your scores can be interpreted as follows:

INDEPENDENCE SUBSCALES

Autonomy

• High scores: Tries to break away from restraints, confinement, or restrictions of any kind; enjoys being unattached, free, not tied to people, places, or obligations; may be rebellious when faced with restraints. Defining trait adjectives: Unmanageable, free, autonomous, rebellious, unconstrained, individualistic, ungovernable, self-determined, non-conforming, non-compliant, resistant, recalcitrant
• Low scores: Willingly accepts social obligations and attachments; prefers to follow rules imposed by people or by custom; listens to the advice and opinions of others; is amenable to being easily led or influenced; is reliant on others for direction. Defining trait adjectives: Controllable, tractable, manageable, conforming, conventional, reconcilable, obedient, governable

Individualism

• High scores: Unconcerned about reputation or social standing; insensitive to others‘ praise or disapproval; does not necessarily conform to socially-approved norms in behavior and appearance. Defining trait adjectives: Socially inappropriate, gruff, unconventional, ungracious, disagreeable, offensive, unstylish, willful, headstrong.
• Low scores: Desires to be held in high esteem by acquaintances; concerned about reputation and what other people think; works for the approval and recognition of others. Defining trait adjectives: Approval seeking, proper, well-behaved, socially sensitive, agreeable, obliging, recognition-seeking.

Self Reliance

• High scores: Does not look to others for guidance or support; is able to maintain oneself without aid; has confidence in and exercises own judgment; confronts problems alone; does not seek advice or sympathy. Defining trait adjectives: Secure, strong, self-sufficient, liberated, self-reliant, self-assured, confident, resolute, sanguine.
• Low scores: Frequently seeks the sympathy, protection, love, advice, and reassurance of other people; may feel insecure or helpless without such support; confides difficulties readily to a receptive person. Defining trait adjectives: Dependent, entreating, confiding, requesting, pleading, help-seeking, defenseless, support-seeking

INDUSTRIOUSNESS SUBSCALES

Achievement

• High scores: Aspires to accomplish difficult tasks; maintains high standards and is willing to work toward distant goals; responds positively to competition; willing to put forth effort to attain excellence. Defining trait adjectives: Striving, accomplishing, capable, purposeful, attaining, industrious, achieving, aspiring, enterprising, self-improving, productive, driving, ambitious, resourceful, competitive.
• Low scores: Tends not to set ambitious goals; prefers easy work over difficult challenges; does not strive for excellence; may respond negatively to challenges and competition; overestimates or exaggerates obstacles. Defining trait adjectives: Unmotivated, indolent, non-competitive, unproductive, enervated, underachieving, non-perfectionistic, lackadaisical.

Endurance

• High scores: Willing to work long hours; doesn't give up quickly on a problem; persevering, even in the face of great difficulty; patient and unrelenting in work habits. Defining trait adjectives: Persistent, determined, steadfast, enduring, unfaltering, persevering, unremitting, relentless, tireless, dogged, energetic, has stamina, sturdy, zealous, durable.
• Low scores Gives up quickly on a problem; unwilling to work long hours; loses drive or effectiveness over time; prefers to rest when faced with obstacles or difficulties; is discouraged when success is not forthcoming quickly. Defining trait adjectives: Faltering, weary, unsteady, tired, lethargic, relaxed, nonchalant, flagging, distractable, unenergetic.

Seriousness

• High scores: Is subdued in thought, appearance, and manner; takes a serious approach to life and to work; does not seek fun or amusement; avoids frivolity and idle pursuits. Defining trait adjectives: Serious, sober, earnest, conservative, sedate, austere, grave, solemn, grim, somber, staid, prim.
• Low scores Does many things, "just for fun;" spends a good deal of time participating in games, sports, social activities, and other amusements; enjoys jokes and funny stories; maintains a light-hearted, easy-going attitude toward life. Defining trait adjectives: Playful, jovial, jolly, pleasure-seeking, merry, laughter-loving, joking, frivolous, prankish, sportive, mirthful, fun-loving, gleeful, carefree, blithe.

METHODICALNESS SUBSCALES

Cognitive Structure

• High scores: Does not like ambiguity or uncertainty in information; wants all questions answered completely; desires to make decisions based upon definite knowledge, rather than upon guesses or probabilities. Defining trait adjectives: Precise, exacting, definite, meticulous, perfectionistic, clarifying, explicit, accurate, rigorous, literal, defining, seeks structure, avoids ambiguity.
• Low scores Avoids making detailed plans or preparations; prefers not to follow a schedule; accepts uncertainty and ambiguity; may base decisions on uncertain information; does not engage in persistent or intense intellectual concentration. Defining trait adjectives: Equivocal, vague, lax, ambiguous, indefinite, lacking in precision, imperspicuous, unscheduled, imprecise, unstructured, inexact, undisciplined

Deliberateness

• High scores: Acts with deliberation; is on an even keel; ponders issues and decisions carefully; thinks before acting; avoids spontaneity. Defining trait adjectives: Thoughtful, prudent, inhibited, restrained, patient, steady, pensive, deliberative, reflective, planful, purposeful, self-controlled.
• Low scores Tends to act on the "spur of the moment" and without deliberation; gives vent readily to feelings and wishes; speaks freely; may be volatile in emotional expression. Defining trait adjectives: Hasty, rash, uninhibited, spontaneous, reckless, irrepressible, mercurial, impatient, incautious, hurried, impulsive, foolhardy, excitable, impetuous.

Order

• High scores: Concerned with keeping personal effects and surroundings neat and organized; dislikes clutter, confusion, lack of organization; interested in developing methods for keeping materials methodically organized. Defining trait adjectives: Neat, organized, tidy, systematic, well-ordered, disciplined, prompt, consistent, orderly, clean, methodical, scheduled, planful, unvarying, deliberate.
• Low scores: Prefers not to organize surroundings neatly; is not concerned with neatness; lacks regularity or uniformity. Defining trait adjectives: Messy, erratic, impulsive, unstructured, arbitrary, random, haphazard, disordered, untidy, chaotic, unorganized.

Achievement motivation scores assesses your orientation to Mastery, Work, and Competitiveness.

Definitions:

• Mastery: the desire to be in challenging situations (rather do something challenging or difficult, rather than something they are confident with or that is fun);
• Work – the willingness to apply oneself diligently (finds satisfaction in simply doing work as well as they can, not influenced by to this extent co-workers (popularity), finds satisfaction in a job well done; it doesn’t matter if they do not outperform others);
• Competitiveness: the desire to best others (need to compete).

Type A Characteristics:

• II – Impatience & Irritability – irritated easily, quick temper, propensity for feeling time pressured, irritable and impatient
• AS – Achievement striving – put effort and motivation into things, take life seriously, goal directed behavior with clear desires for achievement

Studies have show that in western populations high mastery, high work and low competitiveness scores are characteristic of high performing individuals.

Your profile indicated that you scored:

• Mastery= High
• Work= High
• Competitiveness= High
• II= Average
• AS= High

The Personal Attributes questionnaire portion of the assessment measures task versus interpersonal orientation. You can be high on both or low on both or high on one and low on the other…they are independent dimensions.

• Instrumentality (I, 8 items) best illustrates self-assertive, instrumental or agentic traits (self-assertion, aggressive, not passive, competitive)
• Expressivity (E, 8 items) interpersonally oriented expressive traits (emotionally sensitive, helpful, devotional)
• Negative Instrumentality (I-, 8 items) measures agentic attributed carried to an extreme and can be thought of as reflecting arrogance and hostility ( Arrogant, boastful, egotistical)
• Negative Expressivity Verbal (Eva, 4 items) reflects verbal passive-aggressive qualities (complains constantly, constantly criticizes).
• Negative Communion (Ec, 4 items) reflects self-subordinating qualities and submissiveness and individual concern for others carried so far that concern for self suffers (gullible, weak-willed)

You scored:

• Instrumentality (task orientation)= High
• Expressivity (interpersonal orientation= High
• Negative Instrumentality (Hostility)= Low
• Verbal Aggressiveness= Average
• Neg. Communion= Average