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MOTIV Personality Trait Descriptions

MaterialisticOffbeatThinkingInterpersonal | Vital | Easygoing | Sectarian
Ascetic | Conventional | Haphazard | Withholding | Depressive | Rigid | Globalistic

Conventional

Conventional items (healthy to unhealthy)

The following items all had a statistically significant factor loadings (similar to correlations) on the Ascetic drive:

Healthy items | Conventional factor score / Vital factor score
(have not been able to find any thus far)

Average Health items | Conventional factor score
I don't prioritize exploring the unknown. 642
I don't prioritize testing limits. 554
I don't prioritize doing dangerous things. 500
I prefer the familiar.  488 
I don't prioritize being experimental. 449
I don't prioritize putting myself at risk. 416
I am not my risk taking. 363
I don't prioritize being different. 327
I trust my primary experience more than my secondary subjective impressions, interpretations of that experience. 250
I am not my experimentation. 245
I would be fine if the external world always stayed as it is now. 227
I could be happy if the world never changed. 212
I pay more attention to information that comes through my five senses than the patterns and possibilities that I may perceive in that information. 200
I am not my experiments. 175

Unhealthy items | Conventional factor score / Depressive factor score
I don't like taking risks. 597/308
I don't prioritize adventure. 581/204
I don't prioritize trying new things. 554/304
I don't prioritize taking adventures. 515/258
I don't prioritize taking risks. 509/206
I don't prioritize adventure seeking. 497/216
I don't like intensity. 495/196
I don't prioritize exploring. 469/236
I don't prioritize exploring my limits. 462/212
I don't care much about trying new things. 373/373
I don't like being in unfamiliar environments. 373/427
I should be more open to trying new things. 280/401
I hate that I am not more risk taking. 265/392
I am afraid. 158/741


*for a low score assume the opposite of the above. the descriptions listed here are made up of personality items. people who scored high on this type scored higher on the above items compared to the average. (more info on construction)
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