Wellbeing, meaning, and relationship tools.
A wellbeing field guide for your own life. Life Dashboard gives you educational, non-diagnostic tools for meaning, attachment, flourishing, loneliness, depression, stress, burnout, and wellbeing reflection — so you can understand the patterns shaping your life with more clarity.
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The Life Dashboard is six free wellbeing self-assessments: the Attachment Style Decoder, Stress & Burnout Index, Depression Test, Loneliness Test, Meaning in Life, and the Flourishing Index. Every assessment gives instant results, scores your answers in your browser, and requires no sign-up; a result leaves your device only if you save it or buy its report.
They are educational screens, not diagnoses — each one documents its research basis and its limits on the page, and where a result points at something clinical, it points you to a professional. And one thing said plainly: if you're in a bad place right now, talking to someone you trust or a crisis line beats taking a test.
Measure it, and you can change it.
The dashboard isn't another habit tracker. It is a set of self-report snapshots you can retake, to see how your own answers change over time.
The Flourishing Index
An LBL-original 25-item assessment measuring 16 dimensions of human flourishing across two tiers — 9 core dimensions that drive a composite score and 6-archetype classification (including care-aware Adrift routing), plus 7 contextual dimensions that add an awareness layer. Synthesizes the Global Flourishing Study (Wave 1, 2025), Ryff's PWB model, Snyder's Hope Theory, and Ersner-Hershfield's future-self continuity work.
The Attachment Style Decoder
Find your attachment style across two dimensions — Anxiety and Avoidance — and see your shape on a four-archetype quadrant: The Anchor (Secure), The Tide (Anxious-Preoccupied), The Island (Dismissing-Avoidant), or The Storm (Fearful-Avoidant). An LBL-original 20-item instrument grounded in the two-factor adult attachment framework (Brennan, Clark & Shaver 1998; Mikulincer & Shaver 2007), with the science behind each archetype and what helps you move toward earned-secure attachment.
The Meaning in Life Index
A measure of how meaning is currently functioning in your life — both the Presence of Meaning (the meaning you have) and the Search for Meaning (the meaning you are looking for). An LBL-original inventory informed by the MLQ (Steger, Frazier, Oishi & Kaler 2006, Journal of Counseling Psychology), read across ten dimensions and six profiles, on its own terms rather than as a percentile.
The LBL Depression Test
A validated 9-item depression screen with five severity bands, a sub-dimension symptom profile (cognitive-emotional / physical / pleasure-motivation), five research-grounded archetypes, and item-9 hard-escalation crisis support. Built on the Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams (2001) screener — the most-cited brief depression instrument in clinical practice, with over 100,000 citations.
The LBL Stress & Burnout Index
A 24-item self-inventory (LBL-SBI v2.0) measuring perceived stress and personal burnout via LBL-original items aligned to construct anchors: the Perceived Stress Scale two-factor architecture (Cohen 1983) and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory Personal Burnout subscale (Kristensen 2005). Unified 5-point Likert anchor set with 2-week reference period; both subscales scored on a 0–100 displayed scale; integrated archetype on a five-zone stress × burnout map; three-criterion care-aware escalation including an existential-weariness sentinel. Browser-local.
The LBL Loneliness Test
A four-dimension assessment of subjective loneliness with 24 original items. Three dimensions map where connection is missing — intimate, relational, and collective, the structure identified by Hawkley, Browne & Cacioppo (2005) — while a fourth tracks the self-reinforcing loop (Cacioppo & Hawkley 2009) that determines whether loneliness fades or hardens. A Loneliness Index, a separate loop axis, seven profiles, and a deficit-by-loop map. An original instrument; browser-local.
Which wellbeing assessment should you take first?
People arrive at wellbeing tests carrying different weights, so the routing below is by the question you're actually holding. One rule outranks the routing: if you are in crisis or having thoughts of harming yourself, skip the tests — contact a crisis line or someone you trust now. Measurement is for when there's room to reflect.
"Why do my relationships keep following the same script?" — the attachment question
Start with the Attachment Style Test. Attachment theory — Bowlby and Ainsworth's framework, now among the best-replicated in psychology — describes four styles: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. Your style operates mostly beneath awareness, shaping who you're drawn to, how you fight, and what a delayed reply does to your nervous system. Two honest notes: styles apply beyond romance (friendships and work too), and they are not fixed — earned security through insight and experience is well documented. Answer from your actual relationship history, not the partner you're trying to be.
"Am I burned out — or is this something more?" — the depletion question
The Burnout Test measures perceived stress and personal burnout: the exhaustion, detachment, and sense of inefficacy that can build in any part of life, not only a job. The boundary that matters — and that most burnout quizzes skip — is with depression: burnout is domain-specific (it lifts, at least partly, away from its source), while depression follows you everywhere. Burnout also rarely resolves on its own. If the Depression Test is the one you came for, take it knowing exactly what it is: a structured screen that organizes symptoms into a picture worth taking seriously — and worth taking to someone. It is not a diagnosis, and a concerning result is a reason to talk to a professional, not a verdict to carry alone.
"Why do I feel disconnected?" — the connection question
The Loneliness Test measures the gap between the connection you have and the connection you need — which is why you can be lonely in a crowd and content alone. Loneliness is a signal, not a character flaw, and seeing which relationships and which kind of contact feel thin is a practical place to start.
"Is this all there is?" — the meaning question
Two instruments, two altitudes. Meaning in Life measures both the presence of meaning and the search for it — and the research finding worth knowing is that searching is not a deficit; it's often what an examined life looks like mid-stride. The Flourishing Index zooms out to the whole dashboard — joy, health, meaning, relationships, money — the difference between feeling good and functioning well. It's the best single baseline on this page, and the one worth retaking on a cadence to see how your answers move.
How to take any of them well
Answer as the person you were this month, not your best week and not your worst night. Treat surprising scores as hypotheses. Retake on a cadence that can show change — a baseline now, again in one to three months — and let the trend, not any single reading, be the data. Every assessment documents its research basis and limits on the page; that's how to judge any wellbeing test, including these.
How Life Dashboard works.
Three commitments distinguish a real personal-analytics tool from a surveillance app that happens to charge you for access to your own data.
Local-first by default
Your answers are scored in your browser, and no test needs an account. A result reaches our servers only if you choose to save it to a free LifeGraph+ account or buy its report. No email harvesting, no advertising surveillance, and we never sell your data.
Published scales where they fit
Where a published scale fits, we use it — PHQ-9 for depression, GAD-7 for anxiety. The other dashboard tests are LifeByLogic-original instruments, and each page says so and states its limits. Not personality quizzes.
Clarity over aesthetics
Most tracking apps optimize for a satisfying interface. We optimize for clarity — each result read on its own test's scale, with its limits stated, rather than numbers that look more precise than they are.
Other laboratories in the publication.
LifeByLogic is organized into five labs, each focused on a different dimension of the examined life.
Brain Lab
Neuroscience-backed tools for cognitive health. Brain Age Index, Sleep-Cognition Optimizer, and more.
Crossroads Lab
A stay-or-quit simulator and career tests for life's biggest work decisions — choosing, changing, or leaving.
Behavior Lab
Behavioral economics and cognitive psychology tools to map biases, personality, anxiety, procrastination, overthinking.
Family Lab
Parent-reported tools for child development, temperament, strengths, screens and family routines.
More tools may follow for this lab, but none has a release date yet. Follow The Brain Matters for updates.
Read the methodology.
Each tool documents its method on its own methodology page: what it measures, how it is scored, its limits, whether it has been validated, and the research it draws on.
LBL-original 25-item assessment, 16 dimensions across 2 tiers, 6 archetypes; the Global Flourishing Study Wave 1 is research context only, with no norms or comparison.
LBL-original 20-item instrument, two-factor adult attachment model (Brennan 1998; Mikulincer & Shaver 2007), four-archetype scoring.
APA (7th ed.) — LifeByLogic. (2026). Life Dashboard: Wellbeing & life reflection tools. LifeByLogic. https://lifebylogic.com/life-dashboard/
MLA (9th ed.) — LifeByLogic. "Life Dashboard: Wellbeing & Life Reflection Tools." LifeByLogic, 2026, lifebylogic.com/life-dashboard/.
Chicago (17th ed.) — LifeByLogic. "Life Dashboard: Wellbeing & Life Reflection Tools." LifeByLogic, 2026. https://lifebylogic.com/life-dashboard/.
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Free guides to a life that makes sense
Research-cited essays behind our free wellbeing and life assessments — meaning, purpose, mattering, and the way back when life stops making sense. No sign-up, ever.
How the Life Dashboard connects
Most assessments here have companion reading that explains the science behind it — take the test for your profile, read the essay to understand it. Grouped by what brought you here. These are educational self-assessments, not diagnoses.
Persistent low mood, exhaustion, or loss of interest that won’t lift — and you want it organized into something you can act on.
You feel disconnected even around people — and want to see which kind of loneliness it is, across four dimensions.
You’re running on empty — and want to know whether it’s ordinary stress or the deeper pattern of burnout.
“Is my life actually meaningful?” — you want a real read across the dimensions the research says make a life feel meaningful.
You want the whole picture of how you’re doing — not just the absence of illness, but the presence of flourishing, across 16 dimensions.
The same painful patterns keep repeating in your relationships — and you want to know the attachment style underneath them.
Wrestling with meaning specifically? The Learn library has a full series: Purpose vs Meaning, When Life Feels Meaningless, Mattering, and more →
Three ways to use the Life Dashboard
The assessments are more useful in sequence than in isolation. Pick the journey that matches where you are — each threads a few tests and their essays into a path with a payoff at the end. If you’re in crisis, please reach out to a professional or a crisis line first; these tools are not a substitute for care.
Take stock of how you’re doing
Payoff: an honest baseline across mood, energy, and connection — and clarity on whether what you’re carrying deserves professional support.
- Start with the Depression Test — then read Why So Many Adults Have Depression But Never Get Help.
- Check energy with the Burnout Test — burnout and depression can look alike but need different responses.
- Check connection with the Loneliness Test — loneliness quietly amplifies both.
When life feels empty or aimless
Payoff: language for what’s missing — meaning, purpose, or mattering — and a concrete sense of where to rebuild it from.
- Read When Life Feels Meaningless and Purpose vs Meaning to name the gap.
- Take the Meaning in Life Test — then read What Gives Life Meaning? to interpret it.
- If the emptiness is about feeling unseen, read Mattering — a specific, buildable need.
Build a life that’s flourishing, not just functioning
Payoff: a 16-dimension read on where you’re thriving and where you’re thin — a map for what to invest in next.
- Take the Flourishing Index — then read What Human Flourishing Is.
- Relationships are usually the biggest lever: run the Attachment Style Test to see the pattern you bring to them.
Frequently asked questions.
What is the Life Dashboard?
The Life Dashboard is a collection of personal-analytics tools for measuring wellbeing, life flourishing, and how your own answers change across the dimensions of a life. The flagship tool is the LBL Flourishing Index — an LBL-original 25-item assessment measuring 16 dimensions across 9 core and 7 contextual facets, with 6-archetype classification including care-aware support routing. It uses the Global Flourishing Study (200,000+ participants, 22 countries) as research context only, with no norms or comparison.
What are the four attachment styles?
Secure — comfortable with both intimacy and independence; anxious (preoccupied) — seeking closeness while fearing abandonment, sensitive to signs of distance; avoidant (dismissive) — valuing self-reliance and retreating when things get close; and disorganized (fearful-avoidant) — wanting connection while fearing it, often push-pull. The framework comes from Bowlby and Ainsworth's research. Two useful facts: styles show up beyond romance — in friendships and at work — and they are not fixed: “earned security” through insight, experience, and sometimes therapy is well documented.
What's the difference between burnout and depression?
Burnout is domain-specific depletion — exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy that build around a role — and it typically lifts at least partly away from its source. Depression is pervasive: it follows you across domains, flattens things you used to enjoy, and disrupts sleep, appetite, and self-worth. They overlap, and prolonged burnout can shade into depression, which is one reason burnout should not be waited out. If the picture looks pervasive rather than work-shaped, the Depression Test — and more importantly, a professional — is the right next step.
Is the Depression Test a diagnosis?
No. It's a structured screen: it organizes your recent experience into a profile that's worth taking seriously and easy to discuss — with a doctor or therapist, who can actually evaluate and diagnose. A concerning score is information, not a verdict. And if you're having thoughts of harming yourself, don't route that through a test at all — contact a crisis line (988 in the US) or local emergency services now.
Can wellbeing actually be measured?
Yes — with the right expectations. Wellbeing research measures self-reported patterns across domains like purpose, relationships, engagement, and accomplishment; the scores are honest snapshots of how life is going by your own account, not objective readings. Their real power is longitudinal: a baseline plus retests turns “am I doing better?” from a mood into a record of your own answers. That's how the Flourishing Index is meant to be used — as a dashboard you check over time, not a verdict you receive once.
How is "flourishing" different from "happiness"?
Happiness measures momentary affect: how good you feel right now. Flourishing measures the longer-term goodness of a life: meaning, purpose, character, relationships, financial security, mental and physical health. The peer-reviewed flourishing literature treats these as multi-dimensional rather than collapsed to a single feeling.
What does the dashboard NOT do?
The dashboard does not diagnose mental health conditions, does not provide therapy, and is not a substitute for evaluation by a licensed mental health professional. It surfaces patterns from published and LifeByLogic-original instruments for self-reflection. If you are in distress, please reach out to a qualified provider or crisis service. See our Disclaimer.
How often should I retake the assessments?
Most flourishing dimensions move slowly — on the timescale of months and years, not days. Retaking every 3–6 months is more informative than weekly. A single use captures a moment; retakes show how your own answers change.
Are my responses private?
Yes. Dashboard tests score your answers in your browser, and none needs an account. A result leaves your browser only if you choose to save it to a free LifeGraph+ account or buy its report, and a report gets only what it needs to be written. We never sell your responses. See our Privacy Policy for full details.