Under-Pressure Personality Profile
A 44-item profile of eleven personality tendencies that can surface under stress or pressure — such as emotional reactivity, skepticism, caution, reserve, and boldness. Built from public-domain IPIP items. Non-diagnostic; describes everyday behavioral styles, not disorders or diagnoses.
At a glance
Detailed write-up pending
A full, citation-backed scientific write-up for this scale — overview, clinical use, and psychometrics in the voice of a dissertation "Measures" section — has not yet been authored. To honor the platform's no-fabricated-sources rule, this page currently shows only the verified registry facts above (item count, structure, scoring, and any published norms). No validity coefficients, reliability figures, or citations are shown here that cannot be traced to a named source; the authored write-up will be added once its sources have been read and recorded in the plan-integrity file.
Subscales
Excitable 4 items
how intensely your mood and enthusiasm shift with circumstances
Skeptical 4 items
how watchful you are for others' hidden motives
Cautious 4 items
how much you avoid risk and the chance of failure
Reserved 4 items
how detached you become from others under strain
Leisurely 4 items
how much you protect your own agenda behind a cooperative front
Bold 4 items
how much confidence and self-assurance you project
Mischievous 4 items
how much you enjoy risk, charm, and testing limits
Colorful 4 items
how much you seek attention and the spotlight
Imaginative 4 items
how unconventional and original your thinking runs
Diligent 4 items
how exacting and detail-focused you are about work
Dutiful 4 items
how much you seek to please and rely on those above you
Example item
“Dislike myself.”
Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.
Scoring & interpretation
Item responses are summed within each scale (reverse-keyed items recoded first) and expressed as a population percentile against the cited reference sample, with a reliability-based confidence range where α is published.
Psychometrics & norms
| Scale | M | SD | N | α | Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leisurely | 17.31 | 2.53 | 795 | 0.56 | summed raw |
| Colorful | 12.04 | 3.29 | 516 | 0.62 | summed raw |
| Imaginative | 13.93 | 2.82 | 600 | 0.51 | summed raw |
| Diligent | 14.76 | 2.69 | 600 | 0.62 | summed raw |
Norms computed from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample (ESCS) — Lewis R. Goldberg’s adult community panel from Eugene and Springfield, Oregon (Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/UF52WY). This is a community sample and is NOT nationally representative. The mean, standard deviation, reference N and Cronbach’s α were computed directly from the raw IPIP item-level responses on THIS scale’s exact item set and reverse-keying (complete cases); reference N varies by scale and is shown with each scale below. The confidence range uses the standard error of measurement (SEM = SD·√(1−α)) from that computed α.
Source & citation
Items drawn from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), placed in the public domain. Goldberg, L. R., et al. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96.