Step 2: Understanding Your Scores
Upon completing the assessment, you will be able to view your results: My Wellness Scores, My Satisfaction Scores, and Understanding My Strengths.
My Wellness Scores
My Wellness Scores are displayed both as a Wellness Wheel representing the twelve sections of the assessment, and as a chart. You will receive a wellness score for each of the twelve sections, as well as an overall wellness score.
My Wellness Scores reflect your assessment of your current level of wellness—a representation of your areas of strength, as well as areas that may present new possibilities for personal lifestyle change.
My Satisfaction Scores
Following My Wellness Scores are My Satisfaction Scores for each of the twelve sections and as an overall satisfaction score. They too are presented as a wheel and a chart.
Your satisfaction scores are determined by your answer to a second question following each wellness statement: "How Satisfied?" This determines how satisfied you are with your answer to the "How True?" part of each statement, i.e., how satisfied you are with your current actions or behaviors related to the wellness statement.
Your satisfaction scores for each section show your average level of satisfaction with where you are now. Sections with the lowest satisfaction scores represent areas of your life in which you are most dissatisfied and have the greatest desire for change. Your highest scores represent those areas where you are most satisfied and therefore no change is desired.
Understanding My Strengths
Next, you will see a list of wellness statements from the assessment that represents your specific areas of strength in each of the twelve sections. These are the statements you responded to the "How True?" question with "Yes/always/usually."
Each statement reproduced in your list of strengths is linked to a corresponding commentary, which provides further clarification of that statement. (These commentaries are also available to you during the assessment if you select "Don't Understand/No Opinion" or "Disagree with statement" for the "How Satisfied?" question.)
We recommend that you take some time to acknowledge your strengths. We often don't give ourselves enough credit for our positive qualities, behaviors, and lifestyle practices. By focusing on our strengths, we also create a more positive attitude of success for approaching areas of our life we do wish to change.
The statements where you were least satisfied are covered in the next step, "Create Your Personal Wellness Action Plan."
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