How Inner Map works, and what it cannot do.

• Research first. Every test is grounded in published psychology research, and every source is named.
• Honest about limits. Inner Map helps you understand yourself; it never diagnoses.
• Private by design. Scoring happens on your device. We do not collect your answers.
• Free, without conditions. No email wall, no paid upgrade to see your own result.

• Personality Test. 50 items from the IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers (Goldberg, 1992), public domain. Emotional stability is reported in reverse, as emotional sensitivity.
• Attachment Style. 18 original items measuring attachment anxiety and avoidance, following the two-dimension model of Brennan, Clark and Shaver (1998).
• Stress Response. 20 original items, five per response, based on stress physiology (fight, flight), research on freeze (tonic immobility) and the fawn response described by Pete Walker.
• Burnout Test. The six-item Personal Burnout scale of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (Kristensen et al., 2005), free to use, plus six original items on hidden strain.
• People Pleaser. 15 original items covering approval seeking, difficulty saying no and self-silencing, drawing on research on sociotropy and self-silencing.
• Highly Sensitive. 16 original items covering the four aspects of Sensory Processing Sensitivity described by Elaine Aron. Not affiliated with the official HSP Scale.

When a validated scale is free to use, Inner Map uses it as published. When the best-known scale is copyrighted or licensed, Inner Map writes original questions that follow the same research model, and says so clearly on the test page.

Each answer is converted to a value between 0 and 1. Statements written in the opposite direction are reversed, so that agreeing with everything does not inflate a score. Each dimension score is the average of its items, shown as a percentage from 0 to 100.

For the burnout test, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory is scored with its official method (never 0, seldom 25, sometimes 50, often 75, always 100) and interpreted with published cut-offs: 50 and above suggests burnout, 75 and above high burnout.

Profiles are assigned with transparent rules. For example, your attachment style comes from whether your anxiety and avoidance scores are above or below the midpoint, and your personality profile comes from the closest four-letter code to your Big Five scores.

Inner Map is not a clinical assessment and does not diagnose depression, anxiety disorders, trauma, PTSD or any other condition. Percentages are not compared with a representative population sample, so a score of 70 means "high on this test", not "higher than 70 percent of people".

Self-report tests reflect how you see yourself at a given moment. Mood, stress and context all influence answers. Use your result as a starting point for reflection, not a final verdict.

If you are struggling, please contact a qualified professional. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number.

Your answers are processed in your browser and never transmitted. Your recent results are stored locally on your device so you can compare them later. Shared result links contain only your scores, encoded in the address itself. We use standard, anonymous analytics to count visits and completed tests, never your answers.

Inner Map was created by Marieme Seck, author of self-help audiobooks including Not Giving a F*ck Anymore and Regulate Your F*cking Nervous System, number one in Self-Help on Spotify in the USA and UK. Marieme is not a psychologist; Inner Map translates published research into tools anyone can use, with sources for everything.