EGO STATE ONLINE TEST – TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS

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Transactional Analysis • 48 Statements • 6 Ego-State Scores

Ego State Online Test & Egogram

Emocare – Counselling & Life Coaching in Ambattur, Chennai offers this free educational Transactional Analysis self-reflection questionnaire for people in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, across India and online worldwide. Explore patterns related to Controlling / Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Rebellious Child, Natural / Free Child and Adapted / Compliant Child.

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Important:
This is an Emocare educational self-reflection questionnaire based on Transactional Analysis concepts. The statements on this page are newly worded for this tool. It is not the Tokyo University Egogram, Heyer Ego State Questionnaire or another standardized/proprietary instrument, and it is not presented as a diagnostic psychological test.
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What This Six-State Profile Means

A practical functional view of Parent, Adult and Child expressions.

Controlling / Critical Parent (CP)

Standards, rules, structure, correction, responsibility and boundaries. Constructive CP can provide safety and direction; overextended CP can become rigid, harsh or judgmental.

Parent expression
Nurturing Parent (NP)

Care, empathy, encouragement, soothing, protection and support. Constructive NP helps people grow; overextended NP can rescue, overprotect or take over.

Parent expression
Adult (A)

Present-focused thinking, reality testing, facts, options, consequences and problem-solving. Adult helps us respond to what is happening now rather than automatically replaying old patterns.

Adult expression
Natural / Free Child (NC / FC)

Spontaneity, play, creativity, curiosity, pleasure and authentic feeling. It can bring vitality and originality; without enough regulation it can become impulsive.

Child expression
Rebellious Child (RC)

Resistance, protest, independence and the energy to say “No.” It can protect autonomy and challenge unfairness; overextended RC can become automatic opposition or reactive defiance.

Child expression
Adapted / Compliant Child (AC)

Cooperation, fitting in, following expectations and social adaptation. It supports coordination; overextended AC can show up as approval-seeking, self-silencing or excessive compliance.

Child expression
Terminology note: TA teaching varies. Many classic egograms use five columns (CP, NP, A, Free Child, Adapted Child). Some functional models show Rebellious Child separately, while others treat rebellion as one form of Adapted Child. This Emocare page intentionally displays six columns so RC can be reflected on separately.

Questionnaire

Answer all 48 statements. There are eight statements for each of the six ego-state expressions.

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Response scale: Strongly Disagree (0) • Disagree (1) • Neither Agree nor Disagree (2) • Agree (3) • Strongly Agree (4)

Please answer all 48 statements to submit.

Your Ego State Profile

Your six independent scores will appear here after submission.

Six Ego-State Scores

Each state has eight items scored 0–4, so each raw score ranges from 0 to 32. Percentages make the six columns easy to compare within your own profile.

CP — Controlling / Critical Parent0/32 • 0%
Structure, standards, correction, rules and boundaries.
NP — Nurturing Parent0/32 • 0%
Care, empathy, encouragement, protection and support.
A — Adult0/32 • 0%
Facts, present reality, options, consequences and problem-solving.
RC — Rebellious Child0/32 • 0%
Resistance, protest, independence and saying “No.”
NC / FC — Natural / Free Child0/32 • 0%
Spontaneity, play, creativity, curiosity and authentic feeling.
AC — Adapted / Compliant Child0/32 • 0%
Cooperation, fitting in, approval sensitivity and adaptation to expectations.

Highest-Scoring Expression in This Questionnaire

This identifies the most strongly endorsed pattern within your own six scores. It is not a diagnosis or a fixed personality label.

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

No result is sent automatically. If you want professional interpretation, you may choose to WhatsApp a concise score summary, interpretation and reflection prompts to Emocare – Counselling & Life Coaching.

WhatsApp Result & Interpretation
Disclaimer: This questionnaire is for learning and self-reflection. It is not a clinical diagnosis, psychiatric evaluation, standardized psychometric assessment or substitute for professional assessment. Scores are not population percentiles and no clinical cutoff is used.

Your Six-Column Egogram

The shape matters more than any single bar. Look for which responses you use readily, which you use less often, and whether you can shift flexibly according to the situation.

How to read this: 100% means you strongly endorsed all eight statements for that state; 0% means you strongly disagreed with all eight. These are within-questionnaire percentages, not normative percentiles. A higher bar is not automatically healthier, and a lower bar is not automatically a problem.
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Parent

Average of CP and NP. Shows how readily Parent-style structure/care appears in this questionnaire.

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Adult

Adult score. Shows present-focused, fact-based and problem-solving responses.

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Child

Average of RC, NC/FC and AC. Shows how readily Child-style spontaneity, adaptation and resistance appear.

Personal Reflection & Flexibility Suggestions

The goal in Transactional Analysis is not to eliminate ego states. It is to build awareness and choose the response that best fits the present situation.

Question-by-Question Reflection

Your strongest endorsed statements are shown first. The full 48-item reflection can also be opened or included when you print/save the report.

Important: an individual statement is not “good” or “bad.” The green label means the statement describes a potentially useful resource when used appropriately. The amber label means the same ego-state energy may become limiting when it is overused or triggered automatically.

Your Strongest Endorsements

The print/PDF report includes the complete 48-item reflection section.

Full 48-Statement Reflection

Frequently Asked Questions

About ego states, egograms and this Emocare self-reflection tool.

1. What are Parent, Adult and Child ego states?
Transactional Analysis describes Parent, Adult and Child as patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Functional models further describe how Parent and Child may appear in everyday behaviour, such as caring, controlling, spontaneous, compliant or rebellious responses.
2. Is “Critical Parent” the same as “Controlling Parent”?
The terms are often used in overlapping ways, but authors differ. “Controlling Parent” is a broader and more neutral label because structure, standards and boundaries can be useful; “Critical Parent” often emphasizes the judging or punitive side. This page shows them together as Controlling / Critical Parent (CP).
3. Is Natural Child the same as Free Child?
They are frequently used as closely related or interchangeable labels in teaching materials. This page displays Natural / Free Child (NC / FC) so people familiar with either term can understand the scale.
4. Is Rebellious Child always a separate category?
No. Many five-state egograms use CP, NP, Adult, Free Child and Adapted Child. Some teaching models separate Rebellious Child; others treat rebellion as one way the Adapted Child responds to external pressure. This Emocare page separates RC because it can be useful for reflection and because six-column teaching profiles are also in use.
5. How is this questionnaire scored?
There are eight mixed statements for each of six categories. Each response is scored from 0 to 4, giving a raw score of 0–32 for each category. The raw score is converted to a 0–100 within-questionnaire percentage. Scores are independent and are not population percentiles.
6. Does the highest score mean my “dominant ego state”?
It is safer to call it your highest-scoring expression in this questionnaire. A single self-report page cannot establish a fixed or clinically meaningful “dominant” state. Context, relationship, stress and role can all change how people respond.
7. What is a healthy egogram?
There is no single universally ideal shape for everyone. A useful goal is flexibility: enough Adult to check current reality; enough Nurturing Parent for care; enough Controlling Parent for appropriate boundaries; enough Natural/Free Child for vitality; enough Adapted Child for cooperation; and enough Rebellious Child to resist unfair pressure without becoming automatically oppositional.
8. Is this a clinical or validated psychological test?
No. This is an educational Emocare self-reflection tool with newly written items. It is not the standardized Tokyo University Egogram or another proprietary psychometric test, and it does not use normative or clinical cutoff scores.
9. What research and theory informed the terminology?
The five-state CP–NP–A–FC–AC egogram is widely documented in TA literature and research, while some functional/descriptive teaching models separate Rebellious Child or describe it as a form of adaptation. For background reading:

Professional Context & Contact

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Shivahari, actual name S. Sivasubramani, is a Psychologist, Career Analyst and Counsellor dedicated to applied psychology, personal growth and professional development.

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