Self-centered
Prioritizing your own views over another person’s feelings or contribution to a conversation. This dimension concerns making room for their perspective, rather than letting criticism or forceful responses dominate.
Difficult Person Test - How difficult a person are you?
The Difficult Person Test is inspired by the research of Dr. Chelsea Sleep, a prominent psychologist. This test evaluates whether you are considered a difficult person based on six different dimensions. How challenging do you think you might be? Take the test to find out!
What is the Difficult Person Test?
How you talk, handle commitments, and rely on others can each affect relationships. This test uses your answers to 50 questions to describe six interpersonal tendencies.
Answer about everyday life
50 questions, about 3 minutes. Think about your usual behavior rather than your ideal self.
Explore six tendencies
You receive a score for every dimension, rather than being assigned to a single personality type.
Read your results
See an overall score, ratings and explanations for each dimension, and advice matched to those tendencies.
“Difficult” is a label for the behavior patterns explored here. It does not measure your worth as a person or establish what others actually think of you.
01Six dimensions of difficult behavior
Similar behaviors can reflect different concerns. These are not mutually exclusive personality types: each tendency can be present to a different degree in the same person.
Arrogant
Placing your views or value above those of others. This is different from healthy self-respect: the focus is on respecting other people and treating different opinions as worthy of consideration.
Dishonest
Consistency between words and actions, and honesty about your own behavior. Distorting facts or shifting blame can undermine the trust that relationships depend on.
Dependent
Tending to leave decisions and action to other people. Asking for help is not itself a problem; the focus is on the balance between seeking support and taking responsibility for your own part.
Irresponsible
Following through on commitments and handling time and promises. While dishonesty emphasizes truthfulness, this dimension focuses on reliability and carrying things through.
Pessimistic
Focusing on what is wrong or might fail. This differs from careful planning: the focus is on how worry and a negative outlook appear in your responses to others.
02How to read the overall score and breakdown
Use the overall score for a broad picture and the six individual scores to understand the pattern. The same overall score can conceal different combinations of tendencies.
Example A
Self-centered
Arrogant
Dishonest
Dependent
Irresponsible
Pessimistic
Example B
Self-centered
Arrogant
Dishonest
Dependent
Irresponsible
Pessimistic
Illustrative, fictional profiles. A is relatively higher in Self-centered and Arrogant; B in Dishonest and Dependent. The other two dimensions are equal. These are not actual results or population norms.
Overall score
A summary of the tendencies reflected in your answers. It is not a percentile ranking against other people.
Individual scores and explanations
Read the strength and description of each of the six tendencies. Consider the lower scores alongside the higher ones.
Advice for each tendency
Each dimension includes suggestions based on its result. Use them to reflect on specific conversations or actions in your own life.
The result is based on self-report, not an assessment by other people or a medical diagnosis. Avoid defining yourself or someone else by a single result; consider the situations you had in mind when answering.
03The research and this test
The research by Chelsea E. Sleep and colleagues explored the structure of antagonism. It reported seven factors: Callousness, Grandiosity, Domineering, Manipulation, Suspiciousness, Aggression, and Risk Taking.
This site’s six dimensions do not reproduce those seven research factors. Drawing inspiration from research is different from demonstrating the accuracy of this 50-question test. The six dimensions presented here are this site’s own framework.
References
- Uncovering the structure of antagonismChelsea E. Sleep, Michael L. Crowe, Nathan T. Carter, Donald R. Lynam & Joshua D. Miller, 2021
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