Understand your wellbeing profile

PERMA WELLBEING ASSESSMENT

Wellbeing is not one single feeling. It is shaped by five connected pillars: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment.

This 23-question assessment helps you see your current pattern across those five pillars, together with health, negative emotion, loneliness and overall happiness. Your results are designed to support reflection and coaching rather than diagnose or label you.

PPositive Emotion

Contentment, enjoyment and the experience of positive feelings.

EEngagement

Interest, absorption and becoming deeply involved in an activity.

RRelationships

Feeling loved, supported, connected and valued by others.

MMeaning

Purpose, direction and a sense that life is valuable and worthwhile.

AAccomplishment

Progress, mastery, achievement and managing responsibilities.

Allow about 4–5 minutes. Each question uses a scale from 0 to 10.

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Your profile

Your PERMA Wellbeing Results

Thanks for taking the time to complete the PERMA survey. We’ve compared your results with global reference scores so you can get a general sense of where they sit. For positive domains such as Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment, very high is 9.0–10.0, high is 8.0–8.9, normal / typical is 6.5–7.9, where most people fall, and lower is below 6.5. Negative Emotion and Loneliness work the other way around, so a lower score here reflects greater wellbeing. Scores between 3.1 and 5.0 are within a typical range, while scores above 5.0 may warrant a little more reflection.

These bands are simply a general guide, not a clinical assessment or diagnosis. Everyone’s baseline is different, and where you land isn’t a verdict on how you’re doing. If anything in your results feels concerning or you’d like to talk it through, that’s exactly what a coaching conversation, or where relevant a conversation with a health professional, is for. More detail on where this research comes from, and some important caveats, is included below.

Overall wellbeing

0.0 / 10

Calculated from the 15 core PERMA questions plus overall happiness.

Your five-pillar profile

The shape shows the relative balance between the five core PERMA domains.

Your score compared with the global reference

The grey bars show the international reference average. For Negative Emotion and Loneliness, lower scores generally reflect greater wellbeing.

Your PERMA pillars

Each domain is the average of three questions.

What stands out

Relative strength

Growth opportunity

Profile balance

These observations combine the shape of your own profile with indicative global reference bands. They are intended to guide reflection and conversation, not to provide a diagnosis or a fixed judgement about wellbeing.

Additional wellbeing indicators

These measures add context to the core PERMA profile.

Using your results

Start with curiosity rather than judgement. A lower relative score may reveal an area needing attention, while a higher score may show a resource you can deliberately use to support other parts of your wellbeing. Repeating the assessment later can help you notice change over time.

About the global comparison

The comparison scores above come from the PERMA-Profiler’s international norming study (Butler & Kern, 2016), based on responses from over 23,000 people collected online between 2014 and 2016. This was a self-selected sample, not a random or representative one. It skewed towards English-speaking, higher-education respondents, with roughly half from the United States, and towards younger people, with almost a third aged 18–24.

There are no officially validated “low” versus “flourishing” cut-offs for the PERMA-Profiler, and scores across studies tend to skew positive overall. For these reasons, we suggest treating the global comparison as general context rather than a strict benchmark, and paying most attention to your own profile and how it changes over time.

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Based on the PERMA-Profiler developed by Julie Butler and Peggy Kern (2016), University of Pennsylvania. This wellbeing reflection is not a diagnostic or medical tool.