Self-Administered Psychological Assessments
These online assessments are questionnaires you fill out on your own. Your answers can help you and a Spring Grove clinician better understand autistic traits or personality patterns and decide on next steps.
What Each Assessment Measures
Not sure which test to pick? Here is what each one looks at. Each is $50, or take any 3 in a category for $100.
Autism Trait Assessments
Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI)
The CATI is a self-report questionnaire that explores a wide range of autistic traits, including social interaction, sensory experiences, routines, and coping patterns. It offers a balanced, modern view of autism traits and is often used to better understand everyday functioning and lived experience.
This measure is helpful for identifying how autism traits may show up in daily life, especially in areas like sensory sensitivity and masking that can sometimes be overlooked in other tools.
Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
The AQ is a brief screening tool designed to measure core autistic traits such as social communication, attention to detail, imagination, and flexibility with change. It is widely used as an initial indicator of whether further evaluation may be helpful.
This assessment is useful for quickly identifying core patterns of autistic traits, making it a strong first step in understanding whether additional assessment is warranted.
Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale – Revised (RAADS-R)
The RAADS-R is a more in-depth self-report measure that focuses on developmental history and long-term patterns of autistic traits, including language, social relationships, sensory sensitivities, and circumscribed interests.
This tool is especially helpful for uncovering lifelong patterns that may not have been formally recognized, particularly in adults who have gone undiagnosed or learned to mask traits over time.
Why Take All Three Autism Assessments?
Each of these tools looks at autism from a slightly different angle:
- The AQ identifies core traits quickly
- The CATI provides a broader view of day-to-day experiences
- The RAADS-R explores deeper developmental patterns over time
Taken together, they offer a more comprehensive and accurate picture of autistic traits than any single assessment alone. This combined approach helps clinicians better understand your experiences, reduce missed or overlooked traits, and guide more informed next steps in care and support.
Personality Assessments
Personality Inventory for DSM-5 – Short Form (PID-5-SF)
The PID-5-SF is a self-report assessment that explores maladaptive personality traits—patterns that may contribute to emotional distress, relationship difficulties, or coping challenges. It focuses on areas like emotional intensity, impulse control, interpersonal functioning, and thinking patterns.
This measure is especially helpful for understanding how personality traits may be contributing to current struggles, making it useful for clinical insight and treatment planning.
International Personality Item Pool – NEO – 120 item version (IPIP-NEO-120)
The IPIP-NEO-120 is a comprehensive personality assessment based on the Big Five model. It measures five major personality domains—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—along with more detailed sub-traits within each area.
This tool provides a deep, detailed picture of long-standing personality patterns, helping explain how you typically think, relate, and respond across different areas of life.
NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale – 30-item version (NFFPS-30)
The NFFPS-30 is a brief version of the Big Five personality model that offers a quick overview of core personality traits. It provides an efficient snapshot of your general tendencies in thinking, behavior, emotions, and social interaction.
This measure is ideal for gaining fast, accessible insight into your overall personality style, especially when used as an entry point into deeper assessment.
Why Take All Three Personality Assessments?
Each of these tools examines personality from a different level of depth and function:
- The NFFPS-30 gives a quick, broad overview of personality traits
- The IPIP-NEO-120 provides a detailed, in-depth breakdown of stable personality patterns
- The PID-5-SF explores more complex or maladaptive traits that may affect emotional health or relationships
Together, they create a full-spectrum understanding of personality—from everyday tendencies to deeper emotional and behavioral patterns. This combined approach helps clinicians and clients better understand strengths, challenges, and underlying patterns that may be influencing current life experiences, relationships, and mental health.
