Relationship with Yourself.
The quality of your relationship with yourself, measured over the past four weeks: how you evaluated yourself, how much your sense of worth moved with events, how you set and coordinated boundaries, and how you opened up to others.
Three constructs, independent of each other.
This instrument does not produce one score for you. It produces readings in three areas that research treats as separate, and it compares your areas with each other rather than you with other people.
Self-Esteem
Measured in five areas of life, each with two readings. The level shows how benevolently you evaluated yourself in that area. The contingency shows how strongly your overall sense of worth moved with events in that area. The two are independent: a healthy pattern combines an adequate level with low contingency, self-worth that survives setbacks. High contingency is a load you carried, not a flaw.
Boundary Coordination
How you handled what is private. Based on Communication Privacy Management theory: private information is something you own, whose boundary you decide to make more or less permeable, and which, once shared, is co-owned and needs rules.
Self-Disclosure
How you opened up: across how many topics, how deeply, with what emotional tone, and how it was received. There is deliberately no total score; the dimensions are read together with your boundary pattern.
Statements, not questions.
Every statement is about the past four weeks, on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). Where a situation may not have come up, you can say so; that answer is treated as missing, not as a low score. The instruction is to look at the overall pattern of the four weeks, not a single day.
"I acted against my conscience."
Value Consistency · level · reverse-scored
A reading per area, and the pattern across them.
For each area: what it measures, your answers, and a reading of the pattern in plain language. Then the pattern across areas: where your worth was most contingent, where it was most secure, and whether the load sat in one place or was spread out. Until norm data exist, readings use the scale as reference and compare your own areas with each other.
You evaluated your competence favourably over the past four weeks, and your overall sense of worth moved strongly with how things went in this area. That is a productive but expensive constellation: the level held, and it cost something to hold it. Compared with your other areas, this is where the most weight sat.
Pilot, and what that means.
Version 2 (71 items) is in pilot: every answer contributes to the validation sample from which reliability, factor structure and norms are established. Theoretical basis: the contingencies of self-worth framework (Crocker and Wolfe) for self-esteem, Communication Privacy Management theory (Petronio) for boundary coordination, and the self-disclosure literature for breadth, depth and valence. Contingency is treated as a moderator of the link between events and wellbeing, not as a symptom.