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TA Drivers & Working Styles Assessment

Emocare – Counselling & Life Coaching in Ambattur, Chennai offers this free educational self-reflection questionnaire for people in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, across India and online worldwide. Explore how strongly you currently endorse five classic Transactional Analysis driver patterns: Be Perfect, Please Others, Try Hard, Be Strong and Hurry Up.

Important distinction: in this page, a driver means the internal pressure or conditional pattern; a working style means the useful resource that may be available from that tendency when you can use it flexibly rather than compulsively.

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Important:
This is an Emocare educational self-reflection questionnaire based on Transactional Analysis driver and working-style concepts. It is not presented as a validated psychometric or diagnostic instrument. The scores are descriptive and should not be treated as clinical cutoffs, population percentiles or permanent labels.
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Drivers, Working Styles & Allowers

The analogy is useful when the terms are kept distinct.

Be Perfect

Pressure: get it exactly right. Flexible resource: accuracy, quality and careful standards.

Please Others

Pressure: keep others happy or avoid disapproval. Flexible resource: empathy, cooperation and relationship awareness.

Try Hard

Pressure: effort itself becomes proof of worth. Flexible resource: persistence, experimentation and willingness to tackle challenge.

Be Strong

Pressure: cope alone and hide vulnerability. Flexible resource: steadiness, resilience and dependable action.

Hurry Up

Pressure: move quickly and create urgency. Flexible resource: pace, responsiveness and rapid mobilisation.

Why this page does not use a pie chart: each of the five drivers has its own 0–20 score. These are independent dimensions, so several drivers can all be high or all be low. Converting them into slices of a single 100% pie would hide absolute strength and can create a misleading impression that one driver must increase when another decreases.

TA Drivers Questionnaire

Answer all 25 mixed statements. The category behind each statement is intentionally not shown while you answer.

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Response scale: Not true (0) • Slightly true (1) • Sometimes true (2) • Mostly true (3) • Very true (4)

Please answer all 25 statements to submit.

Your TA Drivers & Working Styles Profile

Your five independent scores will appear here after submission.

Five Independent Driver Scores

Each driver is scored from 0 to 20. The percentage shown is your score divided by 20—not a share of one combined total.

Be Perfect0/20 • 0%
Conditional pressure around accuracy, correctness, standards and mistakes.
Please Others0/20 • 0%
Conditional pressure around approval, harmony, meeting others’ needs and avoiding disappointment.
Try Hard0/20 • 0%
Conditional pressure around effort, struggle, challenge and proving that you are trying.
Be Strong0/20 • 0%
Conditional pressure around self-reliance, composure, endurance and hiding vulnerability.
Hurry Up0/20 • 0%
Conditional pressure around speed, urgency, impatience and moving quickly to the next task.

Highest-Scoring Tendency in This Questionnaire

This is a relative description of your answers, not a validated “dominant driver” diagnosis.

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Descriptive self-reflection result
Complete all statements and click Submit and See Result.

No result is sent automatically. If you want professional interpretation, you may choose to WhatsApp a concise score summary, working-style resource, pressure pattern, allower and reflection prompts to Emocare.

WhatsApp Result & Interpretation
Disclaimer: This questionnaire is for learning and self-reflection. It is not a clinical diagnosis, psychiatric evaluation, validated psychometric instrument or substitute for professional assessment. A higher or lower driver score is not automatically “good” or “bad”; context and flexibility matter.
How to read the profile: A higher score suggests that the particular driver message is more strongly endorsed in these 25 self-report statements. It does not mean you have more of the positive working-style resource, and a lower score does not mean you lack that resource. Working-style strengths are most useful when they are flexible choices rather than conditions for feeling OK.

Be Perfect → Quality

Resource: accuracy, planning, standards and attention to detail.

Allower: You are good enough as you are.

Please Others → Relating

Resource: care, cooperation, empathy and awareness of impact on others.

Allower: Please yourself.

Try Hard → Persistence

Resource: energy, curiosity, experimentation and willingness to engage with challenge.

Allower: Do it.

Be Strong → Resilience

Resource: steadiness, endurance and remaining functional under pressure.

Allower: Be open and express your wants.

Hurry Up → Responsiveness

Resource: speed, momentum and mobilising quickly when urgency is genuinely needed.

Allower: Take your time.

Personal Reflection & Choice Suggestions

These are educational prompts based on your highest-scoring tendency. The goal is not to eliminate a working style; it is to gain more choice about when to use it.

Question-by-Question Personal Reflection

After scoring, each item becomes a small reflection: what pressure pattern it explores, which working-style resource may sit behind it, and one permission or experiment that can increase flexibility.

Driver ≠ strength: this questionnaire scores the pressure pattern. The related working-style resource is discussed separately. This avoids the common mistake of assuming that a high driver score automatically means “more strength” or that a low driver score means “less ability.”

Your Most Useful Reflection Areas

The PDF/print report includes the complete 25-item reflection section.

Full 25-Statement Reflection

Frequently Asked Questions

About Transactional Analysis drivers, working styles, scoring and allowers.

1. What are the five Transactional Analysis drivers?
The five commonly described drivers are Be Perfect, Please Others, Try Hard, Be Strong and Hurry Up. Naming varies slightly across TA teaching materials: Please Others may also appear as Please People, Please Me or Please You, and Try Hard may occasionally appear as Try Harder.
2. Are drivers and working styles the same thing?
They are closely related but should not be treated as exact synonyms. A driver refers to a conditional internal pressure—roughly an “I’m OK if I…” rule. In organisational TA, working style is often used for the constructive resource that can emerge from the same behavioural tendency when it is flexible, context-sensitive and freely chosen rather than compulsory.
3. Why is there no pie chart?
Because each driver receives its own independent score from 0 to 20. You can score high on several drivers at the same time. A pie chart would convert the scores into shares of one artificial total and could hide whether all five scores are generally high, moderate or low. Independent bars are therefore more faithful to the questionnaire structure.
4. Does the highest score mean I have a dominant driver?
This page deliberately uses the term highest-scoring tendency. It does not claim that the 25-item Emocare questionnaire establishes a psychometrically validated dominant driver. The highest score is useful as a reflection starting point while the complete five-score profile remains important.
5. What are allowers?
In TA, an allower is a permission that counters the compulsory quality of a driver. Common formulations are: Be Perfect → “You are good enough as you are”; Please Others → “Please yourself”; Be Strong → “Be open and express your wants”; Try Hard → “Do it”; Hurry Up → “Take your time.” The purpose is greater freedom of choice, not simply doing the opposite all the time.
6. Can I have more than one driver?
Yes. People commonly show combinations, and different driver patterns may become more noticeable in different roles or under different kinds of pressure. That is why all five scores are shown rather than forcing the result into one label.
7. Is a high driver score always a problem?
No. The related behavioural style may include valuable resources. The key distinction is flexibility. Accuracy, empathy, persistence, resilience and speed can all be useful. Problems are more likely when the pattern becomes rigid, compulsive, out of context or tied to self-worth.
8. Is this a clinical or diagnostic psychological test?
No. This is an educational self-reflection tool based on Transactional Analysis concepts. It is not presented as a validated psychometric or diagnostic instrument. Its score percentages are percentages of the maximum possible score in this questionnaire—not population norms or clinical percentiles.

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