Most assessments of wellbeing describe how you behave. The V.I.C. maps what you value — and what that means for your purpose, wellbeing, and the life you are building.
What Is the V.I.C.?
The Values Identity Constellation is a brief assessment designed to show you the values shaping your life. Rather than labeling your personality, it maps eight dimensions of meaning and reveals how strongly each one is present for you right now.
Values do more than describe you. They influence how you make decisions, where you find purpose, and how connected you feel to your life. The V.I.C. turns that into something you can actually use.
You will receive a typology, a dimension breakdown, personalized feedback, and examples from history and literature — figures whose value patterns echo yours.
What You Will Discover
How It Works
Rate eight value dimensions on a 1–5 scale. There are no right or wrong answers; only honest ones — and because your ratings are compared against your own average, rating everything high tells us as little as rating everything low.
Three questions about your sense of purpose, flourishing, and emotional regulation. This allows feedback that reflects your whole picture — not just your values in the abstract.
Your radar chart, typology, dimension breakdown, personalized narrative, and two carefully selected figures — real or fictional — whose patterns most closely echo yours.
The Eight Dimensions
The V.I.C. measures eight core dimensions — four broad motivations, each split into a near form aimed at the people and places closest to you and a far form aimed at the wider world. Opposite sides of the circle pull against each other, so your profile is really a set of trade‑offs rather than a set of scores.
You take care of the people close to you. Their wellbeing is part of your own, and you will rearrange your life around it without much argument.
Your concern runs past the people you know — to fairness for strangers and to the living world. You accept costs for things that will outlast you.
You reach your own conclusions and work in your own way. Borrowed answers sit badly with you, even good ones.
You go looking for the new thing and let yourself enjoy it. Sameness reads to you as a slow leak rather than as safety.
You want to get ahead. Succeeding at what you take on matters to you, and so does being recognized for it by the people whose judgment counts. Falling short stings.
You want your judgment to carry beyond your own desk — standing in the decisions that matter, and the resources to act on them.
You want the ground under you to hold, for yourself and the people you are responsible for — and you would rather not be the one causing a scene.
You hold what was handed to you and mean to hand it on. Long practice earns your trust in a way that novelty has to work for.
How It Was Built
The Values Identity Constellation translates decades of research on meaning, purpose, and wellbeing into a practical tool for self-understanding. Its eight dimensions reflect what the literature consistently identifies as the core domains of human motivation — and the circular structure of conflict and compatibility that organizes them.
Its scoring draws on studies of thousands of Americans across generations. The comparison data behind your radar chart reflects those samples, segmented by generation for more meaningful context.
The feedback is honest — calibrated to where you actually are, not where you would like to be. Comparison figures are selected for how closely they match your full profile, not just your dominant dimension.
The Assessment
Rate your values, answer five wellbeing questions, and receive your profile — typology, radar chart, personalized narrative, and two figures whose constellation most closely echoes yours.
Values Identity Constellation
Answer honestly — there are no good or bad patterns. The more truthful you are, the more meaningful and useful your feedback will be.
Step 1 of 3
Rate how strongly each statement matches who you truly are — 1 (not at all like me) to 5 (deeply like me).
Step 2 of 3
Three questions about your wellbeing — so your feedback actually fits your life.
Step 3 of 3
One question that shapes your comparison data and generation-specific feedback.
The shape shows which values you put first. The size shows how strongly you hold values overall compared with other people.
Invite a few people who know you well to rate you on the same eight values. Once three have responded, you’ll see their combined view laid over your own, and where the two differ.
Based on the Values Identity Constellation (V.I.C.) framework. Comparison scores reflect a nationally representative study of Americans across all generations, segmented by generation.