How to Read Your Scores
The assessment asks you to rate 54 statements from "Not true of me" (1) to "Very true of me" (5). Six statements belong to each dimension. Your score for that dimension is the average of the six, from 1.0 to 5.0. Your overall score is the average of the nine dimension scores.
A 4.6 in Social and a 2.3 in Physical are the same kind of number. You rated the statements yourself, on one day. A bad month lowers the scores. Nothing in the assessment is a blood test or a scan.
The four bands
Each dimension score falls into one of four bands. The overall score uses the same four.
A source of strength
Most or all of the six statements were true for you.
Solid, with room to build
Most of the statements were at least partly true for you.
Room for growth
Several of the statements were not true for you.
Worth prioritizing
Most of the statements were not true for you. Check which other scores fell with it.
Read the profile first
Most people score unevenly. Find your lowest score first, then look for the scores that dropped with it. In my own profile the lowest was Physical, and Emotional, Creative, and Occupational & Purpose had fallen with it. I tell that story on the hub page, including what the physical problem was.
Financial strain often disrupts sleep, which the assessment scores under Physical. A move to a new town can lower Social and Environmental together. Retirement can lower Occupational & Purpose while Financial holds.
Each dimension has a page describing what it covers and what the research measures:
Physical · Emotional · Intellectual · Social · Existential · Occupational & Purpose · Financial · Environmental · Creative
About the overall score
The overall number is the least useful figure on the report. Two people can both score 3.5. One of them scores 3.5 in every dimension. The other scores 4.3 in six dimensions and 1.9 in three. The second person knows where to start.
What the score can and cannot tell you
Retake the assessment after a few months. The second set of scores shows which changes held.
You can skip one question in the Physical dimension, the one about sexual health and intimacy. A skipped answer scores 3, the midpoint, so it moves your Physical score a little toward the middle. The assessment never includes that answer in a group report.
The scores are educational. A low score is not a diagnosis. If a result worries you, raise it with your own clinician.
Educational content, not medical advice.