Narcissistic Relationship Assessment | Super Traits, Trauma Symptoms & Recovery Progress
This comprehensive Narcissistic Relationship Assessment combines personality-trait exploration with structured recovery tracking to help identify patterns that may influence vulnerability, resilience, and healing after a difficult or narcissistic relationship. The assessment includes a 30-item Five-Factor Model profile, “Super Traits” such as Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, six-month tracking of sleep, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, depression, physiological activation, relationship craving, avoidance, concentration, and triggers, as well as relationship-impact and treatment-planning questions. Results are intended to support psychoeducation, clinical discussion, and progress monitoring and should not be used to diagnose a partner or establish Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery • Super Traits • Symptom Progress
Comprehensive Narcissistic Relationship Assessment
This combined assessment integrates both Narcissistic Relationship Assessment I and II. Part I examines 30 personality traits using a Five-Factor Model framework and the “Super Traits” concept. Part II tracks changes over the previous six months in sleep, intrusive thoughts, physiological activation, relationship craving, concentration, anxiety, depression, triggers, avoidance, and related trauma symptoms. Together, the sections help connect personal strengths and vulnerabilities with current recovery progress.
Mark Zauss, BC-TMC, LMHC, LPC, CCMHC, NCC, ASDCS, CCTP, CCTP II, NATC, ADHD-CCSP, C-DBT, C-PD
Double Board Certified Counseling Services, Inc.
Double Board Certified Counseling Services, Inc.
Important
How to Use This Combined Assessment
The first existing webpage is a 30-item Five-Factor Model personality exercise. The second webpage is a six-month symptom-change questionnaire focused on recovery from a difficult or narcissistic relationship. Combining them provides a broader view of both who the client is and how the client is functioning now.
Super Traits: The original Assessment I describes Agreeableness and Conscientiousness averages above 3 as possible “Super Traits” within the Pathological Love Relationship educational framework. These qualities may include empathy, loyalty, persistence, responsibility, and cooperation.
Not diagnostic: Neither section establishes Narcissistic Personality Disorder in a partner, nor does it diagnose PTSD, trauma bonding, or another condition. Results should be interpreted with the client's history, functioning, safety, and clinical presentation.
Results
Combined Scoring Summary
Neuroticism0.00Average / 5
Extraversion0.00Average / 5
Openness0.00Average / 5
Agreeableness0.00Super Trait threshold >3
Conscientiousness0.00Super Trait threshold >3
Current symptom burden0 / 44Clinician-created severity total
Six-month trend0Positive = more worsening; negative = more improvement
Super Trait interpretation: Complete all Five-Factor items and select “Score + AI-Style Summary.”
AI-Style Summary
Automated Clinical Summary
This summary is generated locally using rule-based logic. No information is sent to an external AI service. Review and edit before using in clinical documentation.
Complete the assessment and select “Score + AI-Style Summary.”
Clinical Interpretation
Using the Results in Treatment
High Agreeableness and Conscientiousness can reflect important strengths such as empathy, cooperation, loyalty, persistence, reliability, and responsibility. In healthy relationships these qualities often support intimacy and stability. In exploitative relationships, they may sometimes contribute to over-functioning, excessive forgiveness, difficulty disengaging, or continuing to invest in potential rather than repeated behavior.
The six-month symptom section helps show whether recovery-related symptoms are improving, worsening, or remaining unchanged. Sleep problems, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, physiological activation, avoidance, relationship craving, depression, and concentration problems can overlap with PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, attachment injury, and prolonged stress. A clinician should interpret the pattern rather than relying on a single total score.
Clinical Sources & References
Selected Sources
Mark Zauss Therapy. Narcissistic Relationship Assessment II. The current page tracks six-month changes in sleep, relationship-related intrusive thoughts, adrenaline, relationship craving, concentration/memory, anxiety, depression, triggers, avoidance, focusing, and intrusive relationship thoughts. citeturn824517view2
Five-Factor Model / Big Five. The Five-Factor Model is a widely used dimensional framework for describing personality traits. Part I preserves the existing site's 30-item educational scoring approach rather than presenting it as a formal personality diagnostic instrument.
Sandra L. Brown, M.A. Educational work on Pathological Love Relationships and “Super Traits” emphasizes survivor strengths such as empathy, loyalty, conscientiousness, cooperation, and persistence and how these strengths may interact with exploitative relationship dynamics.
Trauma-informed interpretation. Relationship-related intrusive thoughts, avoidance, hyperarousal, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depressed mood, and concentration difficulties can occur across several clinical conditions and require individualized assessment rather than being attributed automatically to narcissistic abuse.
The added current-severity ratings, combined symptom total, trend index, relationship-impact items, and treatment-planning fields are clinician-created and are not validated psychometric scales.