These four statements ask whether continuing and finishing tasks despite obstacles feels descriptive of you. Answer across ordinary commitments you chose or accepted, while remembering that persistence and a well-reasoned decision to stop are different things.
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This assessment uses the four-item balanced Industry/Perseverance/Persistence short scale from the IPIP-VIA-R. In quality-filtered quota samples from Germany (n=476) and the United Kingdom (n=474), the official materials report McDonald’s omega of .82/.81. The reported 2–3 week retest reliability of .77/.53 comes from smaller analysis subsamples in Germany (n=117) and the United Kingdom (n=107). These group-level estimates do not establish the precision or stability of one individual result; the lower U.K. retest estimate also supports reading a single result cautiously. The source study administered these items within the full 96-item inventory, while TraitSpring presents this four-item scale by itself.
Very Inaccurate through Very Accurate receive 1–5 points. The first two items are scored directly; the final two are reverse scored from 5 to 1. The four keyed values are summed for a total from 4 to 20.
4-item balanced IPIP-VIA-R Industry/Perseverance/Persistence short scale
Bluemke, Partsch, Saucier, & Lechner (2021)
Assessment v1.0.0 · Source links checked at publication on September 15, 2026
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A brief, continuous summary of how strongly four statements about finishing tasks and continuing through obstacles fit your self-description. It reflects this answer pattern rather than productivity, work quality, reliability, or a fixed type.
Important limits
This four-item self-report describes how you answered a small set of task-persistence statements today. It is not a percentile, productivity rating, ability test, diagnosis, work-performance measure, moral judgment, or proof that continuing or stopping was the right decision. It must not be used for hiring, promotion, performance management, discipline, or other employment decisions. Results can change with task and context.
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