Are you able to control your impulses and emotions? Can you maintain an unwavering focus on your goals while steering clear of distractions? Do you resist addictive behaviors? Take this self-control test to assess your level of self-control.
What Is Self-control?
Self-control is also known as self-discipline or the ability to control the need for immediate gratification. It refers to the ability to effectively control one’s behavior, emotions, and impulses in order to achieve a goal.
It favors long-term rewards and making conscious decisions to override automatic or impulsive responses. Self-control can be applied to many different aspects of life, such as regularizing one’s diet and exercise habits, controlling one’s temper, resisting addictive behaviors like smoking or drinking, or staying focused on important tasks despite distractions.
The ability of self-control enables individuals to make positive choices that lead to greater achievement and fulfillment.
Some characteristics of high self-control ability include:
- Clear goals and work towards achieving them
- Being aware of own strengths and weaknesses
- Good at planning and organizing their time, resources, and priorities
- Able to adapt to change and are flexible in their approach
- Take responsibility for their actions/choices
Instructions For Taking Self-Control test
Below is a list of statements related to an individual’s ability to self-control. Please read each statement carefully and rate the extent to which these are relevant to you.
Please note: This self-control test is a self-assessment.
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Sign Of Low Self-control
Your score indicates that you have a low sign of self-control. It reflects that you might have little capability of managing and controlling your urges, emotions, and temptations around various things in life. Also, your score seems that you might stay focused to a few extents to complete your scheduled tasks and manage your challenges in various situations in life. Besides this, it can be shown from your response that to a few extents, you might be able to maintain your healthy routine and diet, but in other cases, you might fail to maintain so consistently.
Further, your score also shows that you may prefer to keep track of your progress to a few extents in achieving a specific goal and might hesitate to a few extents to consider the alternatives when fulfilling a responsibility and also slightly wants to stick to the principles and rules set by yourself for your life.
However, it should be noted that your response would have a chance to impact your social, occupational, personal, and other areas of functioning.
Want to learn more?
Some ways can help to improve an individual’s self-control ability, such as by identifying triggers, setting clear goals, practicing mindfulness, developing healthy habits, creating a supportive environment, practicing self-resistance to instant gratification, and setting limits to one’s needs, desires, and wishes. If you want to know how to develop your self-control skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
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Sign Of Moderate Self-control
Your score indicates that you have a moderate sign of self-control. It reflects that to some extent you are capable of controlling and managing your urges, emotions, and temptation around various things in life. Also, your score seems that sometimes you might stay focused to complete your scheduled tasks and manage your challenges in various situations in life. Besides this, it can be shown from your response that to some extent, you might be able to maintain your healthy routine and diet, but in a few cases, you might fail to maintain so consistently.
Your score also shows that you might prefer sometimes to keep track of your progress in achieving specific goals for life and to some extent might hesitate to consider the alternatives when fulfilling a responsibility and also in some cases wants to stick to the principles and rules set by yourself for your life.
However, it should be noted that your response would have a chance to impact your social, occupational, personal, and other areas of functioning.
Want to learn more?
Some ways can help to improve an individual’s self-control ability, such as by identifying triggers, setting clear goals, practicing mindfulness, developing healthy habits, creating a supportive environment, practicing self-resistance to instant gratification, and setting limits to one’s needs, desires, and wishes. If you want to know how to develop your self-control skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
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Sign Of High Self-control
Your score indicates that you have a high sign of self-control. It reflects that you seem to be strongly capable of managing and controlling your urges, emotions, and temptations around various things in life. Also, your score seems that in most cases you might stay focused to complete your scheduled tasks and manage your challenges in various situations in life. Besides this, it can be shown from your response that in most cases, you seem to be able to maintain your healthy routine and diet and strongly prefer to keep track of your progress to achieve a specific goal.
Further, your score reflects that you seem not to encourage yourself to check any alternatives when fulfilling responsibilities and mostly seem to prefer to stick to your rules and decisions for various domains of life.
However, it should be noted that your response would have a chance to impact your social, occupational, personal, and other areas of functioning.
Want to learn more?
Some ways can help to improve an individual’s self-control ability, such as by identifying triggers, setting clear goals, practicing mindfulness, developing healthy habits, creating a supportive environment, practicing self-resistance to instant gratification, and setting limits to one’s needs, desires, and wishes. If you want to know how to develop your self-control skills, talk to our professional psychologists.
You can use our Mood Tracker to stay mindful of your mood every day, and identify your innermost thoughts & emotions on a daily basis. It will help you in doing the things you love while limiting activities that might dampen your mood.
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Question 1 of 15
1. Question
I am able to control my immediate urge and uncontrolled emotions.
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Question 2 of 15
2. Question
I tend to stay focused on my goals and avoid distractions.
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Question 3 of 15
3. Question
I cannot resist myself to get an immediate reward after achieving or finishing a task.
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Question 4 of 15
4. Question
I tend to keep track of my progress on a time-to-time basis.
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Question 5 of 15
5. Question
I tend to give sudden reactions to anything that is told to me.
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Question 6 of 15
6. Question
I take responsibility for my decisions.
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Question 7 of 15
7. Question
I can adjust my plans according to the need of the situation.
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Question 8 of 15
8. Question
I can control my spending based on my need.
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Question 9 of 15
9. Question
It bothers me when things are not happening according to my plan.
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Question 10 of 15
10. Question
I can resist temptations such as smoking or drinking, or other addictive behaviors.
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Question 11 of 15
11. Question
I set rules for myself and try to follow them under any circumstance.
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Question 12 of 15
12. Question
I am able to forgive others and let go of grudges.
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Question 13 of 15
13. Question
I feel guilty if any uncontrollable action leads to bad consequences.
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Question 14 of 15
14. Question
I struggle to maintain a consistent routine of exercise and a healthy diet.
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Question 15 of 15
15. Question
I act without considering alternatives to my responsibilities.
