SCIENCE & TRUST
Understanding people comes with responsibility.
When insights about people help shape hiring, development, or collaboration, the foundation matters.
THE SIX DIMENSIONS
Six dimensions. One picture.
Each dimension describes a range of tendencies, no end of a scale is better than the other. Read together, they describe how someone tends to work, relate, and make decisions.
Values
What motivates you and what you seek from your experiences
Facets
- Achievement
- Affiliation
- Influence
Interests
The kinds of activities, subjects, and environments that naturally engage you
Facets
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
Temperament
How you tend to respond emotionally and approach uncertainty or tension
Facets
- Calmness
- Aggressiveness
- Distrust
Action Style
How you tend to organize, follow through, and approach responsibility
Facets
- Dutifulness
- Capacity
- Orderliness
Learning Style
How you tend to explore ideas, process information, and reach conclusions
Facets
- Creativity
- Detail Orientation
- Logic
Social Style
How you tend to participate, connect, and influence others
Facets
- Participation
- Affability
- Dominance
21 facets sit beneath these six dimensions, and together they form a VITALS Profile.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE PLATFORM
Established science.
Practical insights.
VITALS is powered by the Watterson Personality Inventory, an instrument developed by Dr. David Watterson, former Chairman of Raymond Cattell’s research institute. It integrates established psychological research. Including Jung’s theory of psychological types, Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors, and Holland’s vocational interests in one coherent framework.
VITALS continually collaborates with academic researchers, psychologists, and experts to evalulate and create new tools. The result is a practical vocabulary for how people tend to work, communicate, learn, and make decisions, described in terms of dimensions and patterns rather than fixed categories.
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Items asked
87
Item packets
42
Trait scales
21
Facets
6
Dimensions
Each step condenses detailed answers into a profile that is nuanced enough to be useful and clear enough to discuss.
FROM ASSESSMENT TO APPLICATION
A clear foundation for every conversation.
Measurement and interpretation are separate steps. Knowing which is which makes it easier to trust what a profile says.
- 01
Assessment
Structured responses
The participant completes the assessment, a structured set of questions designed to capture how they tend to operate. Their answers are the only raw material.
- 02
Deterministic scoring
Measured profile
Responses are scored using the factor-analytic method to produce the dimension profile. The same answers always produce the same result , no AI is involved in measurement.
- 03
AI interpretation
Practical interpretation
AI helps express the measured results in accessible, everyday language. It explains the profile; it does not change the scores or decide anything about the person.
WAYS TO USE THE CONTEXT
- Deeper Interviews
- Client onboarding
- Team collaboration
- Development discussions
The profile adds context to these conversations. It's not designed to predict performance or guarantee outcomes.
ORGANIZATIONAL FAQS
Questions organizations ask.
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