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OWQ Self-Assessment

The Occupational Wholeness Questionnaire II (OWQ II) is a free, confidential 24-item self-assessment, about six minutes long. It looks at how well what you do is meeting your needs for Being, Belonging and Becoming, and shows where they are out of balance.

Take a few minutes to reflect on your last 4 weeks.

Let us know if you are interested to use the Occupational Wholeness Questionnaire in your own research, teaching or practice — get in touch.

What do the numbers mean?

1 Far below my expectation for satisfaction
2 Moderately below my expectation for satisfaction
3 Slightly below my expectation for satisfaction
4 Meets my expectations for satisfaction
5 Slightly above my expectation for satisfaction
6 Far above my expectation for satisfaction

Occupational Wholeness Questionnaire II (OWQ II)

How well is what you do meeting your needs?

24 questions
About 6 minutes
Free and confidential

The Occupational Wholeness Questionnaire helps you develop awareness about your sense of wholeness. A sense of wholeness is achieved through what you do, or do not do, in order to meet your needs.

Your answers stay in this browser tab while you work and are cleared when you submit. Nothing is saved to our servers unless you ask for it on the last screen.

About the OWQ Self-Assessment

That sense is dynamic. People move towards it and feel satisfied and content, and move away from it and feel less so. Throughout life we keep moving towards and away from our sense of wholeness, and this is the nature of human life: fluctuation is normal, not a fault.

A sense of Occupational Wholeness is achieved through congruence between what you do, or do not do, to meet the three basic needs of Being, Belonging and Becoming (the 3Bs), and through the balance between those three.

How it works

What matters in using this questionnaire is not a mark out of anything. It is to raise awareness about the areas of your life worth looking into, and the changes you might make: in the way you think, the way you feel, what you do or do not do, or in your circumstances. Where change feels too difficult or impossible, the question becomes how to cope with it in a way that works for you.

The questionnaire is designed to be repeated. Taking it again later builds a profile that shows whether the changes you made, or the ways you chose to cope, have helped you meet your 3Bs.

How to respond

There are 24 statements. For each one, respond considering your life during the last 4 weeks.

Each statement is rated against your own expectation for satisfaction, not anyone else's, and not an average. The scale runs from 1, far below your expectation, through 4, meets your expectations, to 6, far above it. There are no right answers.

You will not be given a mark or a number at the end. What you receive is a dated diagram of your responses, together with some guidance and questions to reflect on. Taking the questionnaire again later adds a second dated diagram, so you can see what has changed.

1 Far below my expectation for satisfaction
2 Moderately below my expectation for satisfaction
3 Slightly below my expectation for satisfaction
4 Meets my expectations for satisfaction
5 Slightly above my expectation for satisfaction
6 Far above my expectation for satisfaction

What you get at the end

A dated diagram of your answers, a short plain-language interpretation, and questions to reflect on, with no mark and no number. Take it again later and the two diagrams show what has changed. The one below is an example, not a real result.

Example only: these are made-up answers, not anyone's result.

Your result

Your Occupational Wholeness

Your responses to each item, by date
No.	Item	14/11/2026
1	What I do helps me be myself	5
2	What I do makes me feel good about myself	5
3	What I do helps me to see the good things in life	4
4	What I do supports my well being	5
5	What I do makes me a better person	4
6	What I do helps me feel I have choices	5
7	What I do helps me to manage my self-care	4
8	What I do helps me to discover myself	5
9	What I do makes me feel good about life/the world	4
10	What I do enables me to have fun	5
11	What I do enables me to move ahead in my life	3
12	What I do is beneficial for my future growth	2
13	What I do makes me change for the better	3
14	What I do will bring me closer to my goals	2
15	What I do ensures a brighter future for myself	3
16	What I do helps me develop as I would like to	2
17	What I do makes me feel able to attain my goals	3
18	What I do helps me to be part of my community	4
19	What I do helps me to find my place in the world	4
20	What I do helps me get closer to others	5
21	What I do makes me feel I would be missed by my community if I were not there	3
22	What I do makes me feel valued by others	4
23	What I do helps me to be supported by my community	4
24	What I do helps me to feel part of my family	5

Completed 14/11/2026

Each point is one of the 24 statements, in the order you answered them. The height is how you rated it, from 1 (far below your expectation) to 6 (far above it).

Produced by the Occupational Wholeness Questionnaire II (OWQ II).

This diagram follows Figure 12.1 in Yazdani, F. (2023). Occupational Wholeness for Health and Wellbeing: A Guide to Re-thinking and Re-planning Life. Routledge. View the book

What this suggests

You may need to rethink your Occupational Wholeness, with or without professional support.

Occupational Wholeness: how evenly your three Bs are being met

There is a wide gap between your three Bs. What you do is meeting one of your basic needs much more fully than another, and that imbalance is worth reflecting on even where the overall picture looks acceptable.

The OWQ is designed to be repeated. A single diagram is a snapshot; taking it again after you have made a change, or chosen a way to cope with something you cannot change, produces a second dated diagram, and it is the difference between the two that shows whether it helped.

This is a guide for reflection, not a clinical diagnosis. If anything here concerns you, please speak to a qualified professional.

Common questions

Is my data stored or shared?

Responses are processed to generate your score and are not published, sold or shared. If you choose to receive your result by email, that address is used for that purpose only.

Is this a clinical diagnosis?

No. The questionnaire is a reflective self-assessment, not a diagnostic instrument. It does not replace advice from a qualified health professional.

Can I use it with clients or students?

Yes, under licence. Practitioner training covers scoring and interpretation. Get in touch about cohort dates.

How long does it take?

Around six minutes. There is no timer, and you can stop and resume.

About you Every field here is optional. These help Dr Yazdani's team understand how Occupational Wholeness varies between groups; they are never used to identify you, and skipping them changes nothing about your result.

Age

Gender

Marital status

Education

Job

Health condition Special category data: only shared if you choose to Please describe it in your own words

Taken this before?

If you saved a result last time, we can email you a link that draws your sittings on one diagram, so you can see what has changed.

The link works for 30 days. We only send one if we hold saved results for that address, and we do not say either way here — that is deliberate, so this box cannot be used to find out whether somebody has taken the questionnaire.