Types / Personality facets / Steady mood
A facet inside Emotional stability
How steady your mood feels and how comfortable you feel with yourself.
Your usual sense of emotional steadiness and comfort with yourself. The lower end means low feelings and self-doubt come more often.
This is one scale with two ends, not two camps. Most people land somewhere between them, and neither end is better. The labels describe different ways of answering the statements.
People toward this end often question their place, progress, or worth, and discouragement can return during ordinary setbacks. Their inner experience may color how they interpret praise, mistakes, and the next demand in front of them.
People toward this end usually move through ordinary days with a settled sense of themselves, even when a task goes poorly. They can receive praise without needing it to repair their view of themselves. That ease can also make warning signs or unresolved dissatisfaction easier to set aside.
Emotional stability is the average of six facets, and Steady mood is one part of it. Someone can land differently on each of the six scales, so the broad result doesn’t tell the whole story.
How calmly you face possible problems, fear and stressful situations.
How steadily you handle irritation, anger and situations that test your patience.
How steady your mood feels and how comfortable you feel with yourself.
How comfortably you approach people and draw attention in social situations.
How readily you resist cravings, temptation and the urge to overindulge.
How calmly you respond when demands pile up and situations feel overwhelming.
Answer 120 short statements for a reading across all 30 facets, with each scale explained in plain English.
No. Each end comes with something that helps and something that gets in the way. Some scale names sound like faults in everyday English, but an end label describes what the statements asked about, not a grade.
It happens often, and it’s the reason these 30 facets exist. A broad score is an average of six parts, so one part can point the other way. Nothing is wrong when a facet and its broad trait don’t match perfectly.
A score is compared with 320,128 U.S. adults who answered the original statements online during the roughly 12 years before 2014. Their published average and spread provide a typical range for the facet, showing how the score compares with that group.
