{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "loneliness_screener": {
      "name": "Loneliness Check-In",
      "desc": "A 21-question self-reflection across three domains: perceived isolation, connection quality, and sense of belonging.",
      "recommendation": "Your loneliness profile",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "I feel isolated from the people around me, even when I'm not physically alone.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "There's no one I feel I can really turn to when something is bothering me.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel like an outsider, even in a group I technically belong to.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I notice a distance between myself and the people nearby that's hard to explain.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I go through most of my day without feeling truly seen by anyone.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel alone even when I'm doing something with other people.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A quiet, persistent sense of being on my own follows me through the day.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I have plenty of people to talk to, but no one I feel I can really open up to.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My conversations with others tend to stay on the surface, even with people I've known a long time.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I can be surrounded by people at an event or party and still feel completely alone.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "If something big happened in my life today, I'm not sure who I'd call first.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I have more acquaintances than people I'd call close friends.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I hold back from sharing what's really going on with me, even with people close to me.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel like people know facts about me but not really me.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Even in my closest relationship, there are times I feel like my partner doesn't fully know me.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I don't feel like I truly belong to a group, community, or place.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel like I'd have to change who I am to really fit in somewhere.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Even at home, with people who love me, I sometimes feel like I don't quite belong.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel disconnected from any sense of community or shared identity.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "There's no place or group where I feel fully myself.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I wonder if anyone would really notice, beyond the practical stuff, if I withdrew.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dimensions": {
        "perceived_isolation": {
          "name": "Perceived Isolation",
          "desc": "How often you feel alone or unseen regardless of who's actually around you, the gap between the people nearby and the sense of being truly with them.",
          "high": "You often feel isolated even in the middle of company, a quiet distance between you and the people physically closest to you.",
          "low": "Being around people generally feels like being with them; you don't often notice a gap between physical company and feeling accompanied.",
          "icon": "🏝️",
          "science": "Weiss, R.S. (1973). Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation. MIT Press."
        },
        "connection_quality": {
          "name": "Connection Quality",
          "desc": "The difference between having people around and having someone to really open up to, quantity of contact versus depth of connection.",
          "high": "You likely have people in your life, but few or none you feel you can be fully honest with; conversations tend to stay on the surface.",
          "low": "You have at least one or two relationships where you feel comfortable being fully known, not just present.",
          "icon": "🤲",
          "science": "Cacioppo, J.T., & Hawkley, L.C. (2009). Perceived social isolation and cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(10), 447-454."
        },
        "sense_of_belonging": {
          "name": "Sense of Belonging",
          "desc": "Whether you feel like you fit, in a relationship, a family, a community, without having to perform a different version of yourself.",
          "high": "Belonging feels hard to locate for you right now, even in places and relationships that are supposed to feel like home.",
          "low": "You can point to at least one place, group, or relationship where you feel like you genuinely belong as yourself.",
          "icon": "🧩",
          "science": "Baumeister, R.F., & Leary, M.R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117(3), 497-529."
        }
      },
      "results": {
        "minimal": {
          "name": "Minimal Loneliness",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest you generally feel accompanied, understood, and like you belong where you are. That doesn't mean every day feels connected, loneliness comes and goes for everyone, but it isn't a defining pattern in your life right now.",
          "recommendation": "There's nothing to fix here. If you want to keep it this way, the relationships that make you feel genuinely known are worth investing in on purpose, not just the ones that are easiest to maintain."
        },
        "mild": {
          "name": "Mild Loneliness",
          "desc": "You notice loneliness some of the time, maybe a conversation that stayed surface-level, or a moment of feeling like an outsider in a familiar room. This is an extremely common experience, not a sign that something is wrong with you or your relationships.",
          "recommendation": "This is a good moment to notice which specific relationships or situations feel disconnected versus which ones feel genuinely close, and put a little more energy toward the ones with real depth."
        },
        "moderate": {
          "name": "Moderate Loneliness",
          "desc": "A real pattern is showing up here, feeling unseen, feeling like you're on the outside even with people around, or feeling like no one fully knows you. Loneliness at this level is common and well studied, not a personal failing, and it responds to deliberate changes in the quality (not just quantity) of connection.",
          "recommendation": "Consider where you might build one or two deeper relationships rather than more surface-level ones, research consistently finds that connection quality matters more than how many people are in your life. If this pattern feels stuck, a therapist can help you understand what's underneath it."
        },
        "high": {
          "name": "High Loneliness",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest loneliness is showing up strongly and consistently, in how isolated you feel, how little you feel you can open up, and how much you feel like you belong. The 2023 U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory names this exact experience as a widespread public health concern, not a rare or shameful one.",
          "recommendation": "Talking with a therapist or counselor can help you unpack what's driving this and build a path toward the kind of connection you're missing. You are far from the only person feeling this way, loneliness at this level is common, well documented, and genuinely responsive to support."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "loneliness-screener": "Loneliness Check-In"
  }
}