About the test
Five good habits
A checklist of five kinds of everyday habits linked with good mental health: enjoyment, thinking habits, goals, routines and connection. With ideas for small steps.
- 16 questions
- About 3 min
Questionnaire / instrument: Five Good Habits Checklist
What does it measure?
How often you make room for meaningful activities, helpful thinking, goals and plans, healthy routines and social connection. A separate question asks how you have felt overall during the past week.
Where does it come from?
This is our own checklist, written for bigfive-test.com in 2026. Its five areas are inspired by research on everyday activities and mental health, including MindSpot’s work. The questions and advice are our own.
How is the result calculated?
Three questions per area ask about days during the past week. Answer intervals are converted to approximate days and averaged. The well-being question is shown separately. Four days is our suggested target, not a research-derived cutoff.
What can the result tell you?
This is not a validated psychological instrument. There are no population norms or clinical thresholds. Use it to notice routines and choose manageable changes, rather than to assess whether you have a mental health condition.
Languages and adaptations
The Norwegian and English questions were written for this site with AI assistance. Other language versions are translations of our own checklist. Neither the original wording nor the translations have undergone clinical validation.
License and reuse
bigfive-test.comThe questions and advice were written for this website. They are not copied from MindSpot’s copyrighted checklist. No separate public-domain or Creative Commons grant for this checklist is documented here.
The terms below apply to the test materials. Articles, translations, software and our result descriptions may have separate terms.
Sources and further reading
Own checklist (bigfive-test.com, 2026), written for this site. The five areas follow research on everyday activities linked with good mental health, including the MindSpot Clinic's work on five types of activity. Not a validated instrument.