Questionnaire Series
The Personal Sovereignty questionnaire series explores childhood formation from a number of different directions.
The questions do not ask whether a religion or belief system is true or false. They ask what ideas, fears, obligations, choices and social boundaries were presented while a child's understanding of themselves and the world was being formed.
These questionnaires are reflective tools. They are not diagnostic instruments.
Different subjects can need different numbers of questions
The series does not use an obligatory ten-question format. Each questionnaire uses the smallest number of distinct questions needed to cover its subject without unnecessary repetition.
A shorter questionnaire does not mean that the subject is less important. It means that fewer separate questions were needed to describe its main ideas clearly.
Your answers can develop over time
A saved response does not overwrite an earlier saved response. Separate dated versions can preserve what was recorded at different times.
A Light response records the structured answer and age or first-awareness information. A Full response can also preserve what the person understood then, what they understand now, and additional notes.
Unfinished work can also be protected by a browser draft on that device. If a form-verification session expires after a long pause, returning with the browser Back button can allow the draft to be checked and Review or Save tried again.
The thematic questionnaire set
Questionnaire 1
Death, Destruction and Religious Threat
Exploring when ideas involving death, divine punishment and destruction first entered a person's understanding during childhood.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 2
Sacrifice, Martyrdom and Giving Yourself Up
Exploring childhood teachings about sacrifice, martyrdom, suffering, self-denial and giving oneself up for God, Jesus or religious duty.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 3
Authority, Obedience and the Right to Question
Exploring childhood teachings about religious authority, obedience, questioning, personal judgement and the right to disagree or resist.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 4
Thought and Doubt
Exploring childhood teachings about private thoughts, doubt, disbelief, questioning and whether a person was free to think differently.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 5
Choice, Consent and Religious Participation
Exploring whether a child was given meaningful choice or consent in religious identity, participation, ritual, refusal and leaving.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 6
Sin, Guilt, Shame and Blame
Exploring childhood teachings about sin, shame, blame, responsibility for another person's actions, and the conditions placed on forgiveness.
Status: Development
Questionnaire 7
Belonging, Exclusion and Religious Identity
Exploring childhood teachings about religious belonging, group identity, superiority, outsiders and social exclusion.
Status: Development
Overall Story
The seven questionnaires above form the current thematic childhood-formation set. The intention is not to keep extending that series merely to accumulate more questions.
Overall Story is the next layer. It is not another Yes/No questionnaire. It gives the respondent room to decide where the story begins, what belongs together, what changed, what remains uncertain, and what another person most needs to understand.
The thematic responses and Overall Story can now support respondent-controlled Personal Sovereignty Statements. Suggestions remain under the respondent's control and can be used, edited or rejected.
