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How to use psychometric assessments

Last updated: 7 May 2026

What this does

IMPACT includes built-in psychometric assessments to help understand personality types and monitor team well-being. These assessments are implemented as specialised survey types with automatic scoring and interpretation.

Current access and functionality

  • Verified against the current impact-web, impact-client, and impact-marketplace code on 2026-05-07.
  • In impact-web, users must be signed in and working in an active workspace. Navigation and write actions are role-, permission-, and entitlement-aware; unavailable modules are hidden or disabled instead of being universally visible.
  • Survey and assessment setup is web-first for admins. Respondents can answer assigned surveys in web or mobile when the campaign or instance includes them.

Available assessments

DISC Personality Assessment

  • What it measures: Behavioural style across four dimensions — Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness.
  • Purpose: Understand how team members communicate, make decisions, and work together. Useful for team composition, conflict resolution, and role assignment.
  • Output: A DISC chart with quadrant visualisation showing the individual's profile.

DASS (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale)

  • What it measures: Three dimensions of psychological well-being — stress, anxiety, and depression.
  • Purpose: Monitor team well-being and identify members who may need support. Especially important for high-pressure project environments.
  • Output: Individual scores for stress, anxiety, and depression, plus the raw assessment results.

Steps

Taking an assessment (staff)

  1. You will be notified when an assessment is assigned to you (via the survey system or email).
  2. Open the assessment from your pending surveys or via the notification link.
  3. Answer all questions honestly — there are no right or wrong answers.
  4. Submit your responses.
  5. View your results:
    • DISC: A chart showing your behavioural profile across the four quadrants.
    • DASS: Your scores for stress, anxiety, and depression with severity indicators.

Assigning assessments (admin)

  1. Psychometric assessments are distributed through the survey campaign system.
  2. Create a new survey campaign and select the psychometric type:
    • DISC — for personality profiling.
    • DASS — for well-being monitoring.
  3. Set the recipients (individual, team, or company-wide).
  4. Configure the campaign schedule and reminders.
  5. Launch the campaign.

Reviewing results (admin)

  1. Go to the survey campaign results.
  2. View individual and aggregate results.
  3. For DISC: See team composition across personality types — identify potential communication gaps or conflicts.
  4. For DASS: Monitor well-being trends. High scores in any dimension may warrant follow-up support.

Tips

  • DISC is most useful when the whole team takes it — individual profiles are interesting, but team dynamics insights require everyone's data.
  • Run DASS assessments periodically (e.g., quarterly) to track well-being trends, not just one-off snapshots.
  • Make psychometric assessments anonymous when possible to encourage honest responses, especially for DASS.
  • Use DISC results when forming project teams — diverse profiles often perform better than homogeneous ones.
  • DASS results are sensitive data. Limit access to HR or designated well-being contacts.

Common issues

  • Issue: Assessment results are not showing — Fix: You must submit all answers. Partial responses are not scored.
  • Issue: Team DISC chart looks incomplete — Fix: Not all members have completed the assessment. Check campaign completion rates and send reminders.

Related

Keywords: psychometrics