{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "optimism_pessimism": {
      "name": "Optimism & Pessimism",
      "desc": "A 10-item check-in on your default outlook, using the public-domain IPIP scale for dispositional optimism. Scores how much you expect things to go well, and how steady your baseline mood is underneath that expectation.",
      "recommendation": "Our Recommendation",
      "_source": "International Personality Item Pool, 'Optimism (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994)' — 10 items, Alpha = .86. Items verbatim from ipip.ori.org/newSingleConstructsKey.htm. Public domain: 'permission has already been automatically granted for any person to use IPIP items, scales, and inventories for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial' (ipip.ori.org/newPermission.htm). Verified live 2026-08-31. NOT the LOT-R — Scheier & Carver grant the LOT-R for 'research and teaching applications' only, which excludes paid SaaS; see the license block in lib/scoring/tests/optimism-pessimism.ts. Six items are reverse-keyed (2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 in the order below) and 'Seldom feel blue' / 'Often feel blue' are an intentional reverse-keyed pair, not a duplicate.",
      "instructions": "How accurately do each of the following statements describe you?",
      "stem": "Describe me:",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "Look at the bright side of life.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "See difficulties everywhere.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Just know that I will be a success.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Have a dark outlook on the future.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Seldom feel blue.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Am often in a bad mood.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Feel comfortable with myself.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Feel that my life lacks direction.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Dislike myself.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Often feel blue.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Very Inaccurate", "desc": "Not at all like me" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Moderately Inaccurate", "desc": "Somewhat unlike me" },
            { "icon": "😐", "label": "Neither", "desc": "Neither accurate nor inaccurate" },
            { "icon": "👍", "label": "Moderately Accurate", "desc": "Somewhat like me" },
            { "icon": "🔥", "label": "Very Accurate", "desc": "Definitely like me" }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "results": {
        "pessimistic": {
          "name": "Braced for the Worst",
          "desc": "On these ten statements you leaned consistently toward the darker reading: difficulties look common, the future looks uncertain, and a low mood is closer to your baseline than an occasional visitor. Defensive pessimism is a real strategy and it protects people from disappointment, but at this end of the scale the cost is usually that good outcomes get discounted alongside the bad ones.",
          "recommendation": "Treat this as a snapshot of today, not a verdict on you. The most portable habit from the optimism literature is specificity: when something goes wrong, name what exactly went wrong and for how long, rather than letting it stand in for how things generally go. If low mood is persistent rather than situational, this test is not the right instrument for that question and a conversation with a professional is worth more than a score."
        },
        "guarded": {
          "name": "Guarded",
          "desc": "You keep expectations deliberately low-key. You are not braced for disaster, but you do not lean into good outcomes either, and the scale picked up more caution than lift. People in this band often describe themselves as realists, and they are frequently right about the risks they see.",
          "recommendation": "Your caution is doing useful work, so the goal isn't to talk yourself out of it. What tends to help this band is separating the forecast from the plan: let yourself name the good outcome as a possibility, then keep your usual contingency thinking alongside it rather than instead of it."
        },
        "balanced": {
          "name": "Balanced",
          "desc": "Your outlook moves with the situation rather than sitting fixed at one end. You can see how something might go well and how it might go badly, and neither reading dominates your default. This is the middle of the scale, and on a ten-item measure the middle is genuinely the widest band.",
          "recommendation": "This is a flexible place to sit, and flexibility is the part worth protecting. If you want to know which half of the score is doing the work, look at the two subscales below: a high Positive Outlook with a lower Emotional Steadiness reads very differently from the reverse, even though both can land here."
        },
        "optimistic": {
          "name": "Optimistic",
          "desc": "You expect things to work out more often than not, and your baseline mood is steady enough to support that expectation rather than fight it. You still see difficulties, but they read as specific problems rather than as evidence about how things generally go.",
          "recommendation": "The main thing to watch at this end is the blind spot: a positive expectancy makes it easy to under-plan for the outcome you don't expect. Keep one deliberate pessimist's question in your process, either your own or someone else's, on decisions that are expensive to reverse."
        },
        "strongly_optimistic": {
          "name": "Strongly Optimistic",
          "desc": "You answered near the top of the scale on almost every item: you expect good outcomes, you rarely see difficulties everywhere, and a low mood is not close to your baseline. This is a durable and well-studied disposition, and it does most of its work by keeping people engaged with problems instead of withdrawing from them.",
          "recommendation": "At this end the useful discipline is inviting the bad news early rather than late. Optimism that survives contact with the specific downside is more useful than optimism that hasn't been tested, so make it easy for the people around you to bring you the objection first."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "optimism-pessimism": "Optimism & Pessimism"
  }
}