Growing Steadily Overall
SpiritPulse Individual Report

Jordan Rivera

Report generated July 8, 2026
A snapshot of how you are growing spiritually, compared with similar-age peers across the SpiritPulse benchmark.
Overall Score
62.2/100
Your composite score
Benchmark
62.8
Benchmark mean
Percentile Rank
54th
vs. benchmark
Benchmark
2,051
respondents · ages 15-17
01

Domain Overview

Your five SpiritPulse domains plotted against the benchmark. The teal shape is you; the taupe shape is similar-age peers.

Five Domains
Your Score vs. Benchmark
DomainScoreBenchmarkPercentileLevel
God71.064.073rdThriving
Self & Others57.063.045thGrowing Steadily
Spiritual Community74.064.076thThriving
Spiritual Practices60.062.052ndGrowing Steadily
God's Kingdom49.061.026thStruggling
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Scale-Level Results by Domain

Select a domain to view its scales. Each scale shows your score vs. the benchmark, with personalized feedback and action steps you can expand.

Score Level Legend (based on percentile rank)
StrugglingGrowing SteadilyThriving
Reverse-scored scales are marked (R) and are already reversed in scoring, so a higher level reflects a healthier response.
Connecting to God
Secure God Attachment
Your Score
77.4
Benchmark
54.6
Thriving74th Percentile
Feedback

You relate to God from a place of real security, trusting that you are welcome and held even when things are hard. That secure base is one of the strongest predictors of spiritual resilience, and it quietly steadies everything else.

Action Steps
  • Name one recent moment you felt genuinely safe with God, and let yourself return to it in prayer this week.
  • When a hard feeling surfaces, practice bringing it straight to God rather than cleaning it up first.
Anxious God Attachment (R)
Your Score
56.7
Benchmark
65.4
Thriving28th Percentile
Feedback

Your low anxiety in relating to God is a genuine strength: you don't seem to live under a sense that God is disappointed or about to withdraw. That freedom from fear leaves room for closeness rather than performance.

Action Steps
  • Keep noticing when an old worry about God's approval creeps in, and gently replace it with what you know is true.
  • Let your prayer include rest, not just requests.
Distant God Attachment (R)
Your Score
64.2
Benchmark
61.0
Growing Steadily40th Percentile
Feedback

You experience God as reasonably present, with an occasional sense of distance that is completely normal. Seasons of felt closeness and felt absence both belong to a real relationship.

Action Steps
  • On days God feels far, keep showing up in one small, ordinary way rather than waiting to feel something.
  • Revisit a time God felt near, and let it remind you that distance is a season, not the whole story.
Awareness of God
Your Score
70.9
Benchmark
56.0
Thriving70th Percentile
Feedback

You notice God at work in and around you with real regularity, and that awareness is a strength. People who see God in ordinary moments tend to carry a steadier sense of his nearness.

Action Steps
  • Try a one-line evening review: where did I notice God today?
  • Share one of those noticings with a friend this week.
Intimacy with God
Your Score
76.1
Benchmark
62.5
Thriving67th Percentile
Feedback

There's genuine closeness in your relationship with God, a sense of being known and wanting to know. That intimacy is a strong foundation to keep building on.

Action Steps
  • Protect a small, unhurried window with God that isn't about getting anything done.
  • Tell God something honest you'd usually keep to yourself.
Exper God in Prayer
Your Score
65.4
Benchmark
58.0
Growing Steadily62nd Percentile
Feedback

Your experience of God in prayer is developing in a healthy way, with real moments of connection even if they aren't constant. That is exactly how a prayer life deepens over time.

Action Steps
  • Add two minutes of simply listening to the end of your prayers.
  • Pray one honest sentence at the same time each day to build a rhythm.
Exper God in Spir Prac
Your Score
76.9
Benchmark
59.8
Growing Steadily58th Percentile
Feedback

You are beginning to encounter God through spiritual practices, and there's room to let those experiences deepen. Consistency, not intensity, is what tends to open that door wider.

Action Steps
  • Pick one practice that already stirs something in you and keep it simple and regular.
  • Notice and jot down any moment a practice felt alive rather than routine.
Gratitude
Your Score
84.0
Benchmark
64.5
Thriving85th Percentile
Feedback

Gratitude is one of your clearest strengths. You have a real capacity to notice and receive good gifts as gifts, and that posture reshapes how you see God, yourself, and your circumstances. Grateful people are markedly more resilient and joyful over time.

Action Steps
  • Keep a simple daily practice of naming three specific things you're thankful for.
  • Turn gratitude outward once this week by telling someone exactly why you're grateful for them.
  • On a hard day, look for the smallest gift you can still honestly thank God for.
Spiritual Meaning
Your Score
70.0
Benchmark
57.7
Thriving72nd Percentile
Feedback

You carry a strong sense that your life has spiritual meaning and purpose, and that anchors you. A durable sense of meaning is deeply protective when life gets uncertain.

Action Steps
  • Name the deeper 'why' behind one thing you're doing this week.
  • Let that sense of meaning shape one small decision you're facing.
Connecting to Self & Others
Secure Attachment Others
Your Score
71.5
Benchmark
61.2
Growing Steadily60th Percentile
Feedback

You relate to others from reasonable security, able to trust and lean on people while staying yourself. That steadiness is a real asset in every relationship.

Action Steps
  • Invest a little more in the one or two relationships that already feel safe.
  • Practice receiving support, not just offering it, this week.
Anxious Attachment Others (R)
Your Score
72.6
Benchmark
61.6
Growing Steadily55th Percentile
Feedback

Your relational anxiety sits in a moderate, workable range: sometimes you may worry about where you stand with people, and that's very common. Growing security here usually comes through a few consistently safe relationships.

Action Steps
  • When worry about a relationship spikes, check the story you're telling against the actual evidence.
  • Bring one such worry to a trusted friend rather than carrying it alone.
Distant Attachment Others (R)
Your Score
72.8
Benchmark
57.4
Struggling70th Percentile
Feedback

Keeping some distance in close relationships is an area with room to grow, and it's understandable, often it's a self-protective habit rather than a lack of care. Closeness tends to feel safer as it's practiced in small, low-risk steps.

Action Steps
  • Let one trusted person a little further in this week by sharing something slightly more honest than usual.
  • Notice the urge to withdraw, and try staying present for one more minute instead.
Forgiveness
Your Score
67.3
Benchmark
59.5
Growing Steadily52nd Percentile
Feedback

Your capacity to forgive is developing in a healthy direction. Forgiveness is less a single act than a practice, and you're clearly engaging it.

Action Steps
  • Name one lingering hurt and take a single small step toward releasing it, at your own pace.
  • Remember that forgiving doesn't require pretending it didn't matter.
Self Care
Your Score
51.8
Benchmark
62.9
Struggling15th Percentile
Feedback

Caring for yourself is the area with the most room to grow right now, and that's common, especially for people who give a lot to others. This isn't selfishness; you can only pour out from a place that's also being filled. Small, gentle steps matter more than big changes here.

Action Steps
  • Choose one small, restoring thing and protect a little time for it this week, without guilt.
  • Notice when you're running on empty, and treat that as information rather than weakness.
  • Let someone care for you in one concrete way this week.
Spiritual Encouragement
Your Score
60.8
Benchmark
60.4
Growing Steadily48th Percentile
Feedback

You're growing in giving and receiving spiritual encouragement. Mutual encouragement is quiet fuel for a life of faith, and you're building that muscle.

Action Steps
  • Send one specific, encouraging note to someone this week.
  • Tell a friend one way they could encourage you, too.
Spiritual Self-Awareness
Your Score
68.5
Benchmark
61.5
Growing Steadily44th Percentile
Feedback

Your spiritual self-awareness is developing, noticing what's going on inside you and bringing it to God. That inner honesty is where a lot of growth happens.

Action Steps
  • Once a day, pause and name what you're actually feeling, then offer it to God.
  • Ask a trusted person what they notice in you that you might miss.
Agape
Your Score
74.4
Benchmark
57.3
Growing Steadily58th Percentile
Feedback

You show a real, growing capacity for self-giving love. Choosing others' good, even when it costs you, is at the heart of spiritual maturity, and it's taking root in you.

Action Steps
  • Do one quiet act of love this week that no one will notice or repay.
  • Ask God to show you one person who needs your patience right now.
Connecting to Spiritual Community
Spiritual Friendship
Your Score
82.5
Benchmark
50.2
Thriving88th Percentile
Feedback

Spiritual friendship is one of your greatest strengths. You have real relationships where faith is shared honestly, and that is one of the most powerful engines of spiritual growth there is. These friendships are a resource you can lean on for every other area.

Action Steps
  • Name the friend who most helps you grow, and tell them specifically how.
  • Invite one of these friends into an area you're working on so you're not doing it alone.
  • Look for one person you could offer this same kind of friendship to.
Belonging
Your Score
79.3
Benchmark
60.5
Thriving74th Percentile
Feedback

You have a strong sense of belonging in your faith community, feeling that you're known and that you fit. That belonging is protective and life-giving.

Action Steps
  • Show up for someone else's belonging this week by welcoming a person on the edges.
  • Name what makes you feel you belong, and do more of it.
Stimulates Spir Growth
Your Score
78.5
Benchmark
61.3
Thriving68th Percentile
Feedback

Your community genuinely stimulates your spiritual growth, and you engage it well. Being around people who stretch you is a real advantage.

Action Steps
  • Ask one person in your community a question you're actually wrestling with.
  • Say yes to one thing that would stretch your faith this month.
Secure Attachment to Comm
Your Score
73.9
Benchmark
57.6
Thriving71st Percentile
Feedback

You relate to your faith community from a secure place, able to both trust it and be yourself in it. That security lets community do its deepest work in you.

Action Steps
  • Take one small relational risk in your community this week.
  • Thank someone who has made your community feel safe.
Practical Support
Your Score
67.3
Benchmark
60.4
Growing Steadily64th Percentile
Feedback

You experience real practical support in your community and are growing in giving it. Tangible help, shared and received, is love made visible.

Action Steps
  • Offer one concrete, practical hand to someone this week.
  • Let yourself ask for help with one thing instead of handling it alone.
Corporate Worship
Your Score
78.6
Benchmark
57.3
Thriving82nd Percentile
Feedback

Corporate worship is a clear strength for you. Gathering with others to worship genuinely moves and forms you, and that shared rhythm is a deep well of grace. It's the kind of practice that steadies faith over a lifetime.

Action Steps
  • Come to worship a few minutes early to arrive with your heart ready.
  • Carry one line from a song or prayer into your week.
  • Invite someone who's been on the margins to worship with you.
Emotional Support
Your Score
71.3
Benchmark
57.5
Growing Steadily60th Percentile
Feedback

You're growing in the give-and-take of emotional support, being someone others can lean on and letting them be that for you. Emotional safety is where trust deepens.

Action Steps
  • Check in on one person emotionally this week, beyond the surface.
  • Share one real feeling with someone safe rather than minimizing it.
Spir Comm Involvement
Your Score
77.5
Benchmark
49.0
Growing Steadily66th Percentile
Feedback

Your involvement in your spiritual community is developing well. Showing up consistently, even in small ways, is how belonging and impact both grow.

Action Steps
  • Commit to one regular way of showing up this season.
  • Say yes to one behind-the-scenes way to contribute.
Connecting to Spiritual Practices
Media
Your Score
66.0
Benchmark
48.3
Growing Steadily50th Percentile
Feedback

You're growing in how you engage media and content through a spiritual lens. What you take in shapes you, and you're becoming more intentional about it.

Action Steps
  • Add one input this week that feeds your faith.
  • Notice how one piece of media leaves you feeling, and adjust from there.
Christ-Centeredness
Your Score
69.2
Benchmark
57.5
Growing Steadily62nd Percentile
Feedback

Your life is increasingly centered on Christ, with real evidence that faith shapes your priorities. That center of gravity is developing in a healthy way.

Action Steps
  • Name one area of life you'd like to bring more fully under your faith, and take one step.
  • Start one ordinary day this week by re-centering on Christ before anything else.
Spiritual Openness
Your Score
64.7
Benchmark
59.1
Growing Steadily58th Percentile
Feedback

You show a growing openness to God's leading, willing to be changed rather than staying in control. That teachable posture is where transformation happens.

Action Steps
  • Hold one plan loosely this week and ask God to redirect it if needed.
  • Say a simple 'I'm open' prayer when you feel yourself gripping too tightly.
Transformational Suffering
Your Score
61.9
Benchmark
54.1
Growing Steadily40th Percentile
Feedback

You're beginning to let hard experiences become places of growth rather than only pain, and that's tender, important work. Meaning often comes slowly here, and gently is the right pace.

Action Steps
  • Name one hard experience and one small thing it may be growing in you, without forcing it.
  • Let a trusted person walk with you through something you're still processing.
Pos Spirit Coping
Your Score
69.0
Benchmark
57.7
Growing Steadily55th Percentile
Feedback

When life gets hard, you're increasingly turning toward God and healthy spiritual coping rather than away. That instinct is worth strengthening.

Action Steps
  • Next time stress hits, take one minute to pray before reacting.
  • Keep one steadying verse or truth close for hard moments.
Spiritual Perspective
Your Score
69.5
Benchmark
58.0
Growing Steadily60th Percentile
Feedback

You're growing in seeing your circumstances through a spiritual, eternal lens, which reframes a lot of daily pressure. Perspective like this brings real peace.

Action Steps
  • When something feels huge, ask how much it will matter in light of eternity.
  • Practice naming one thing God might be doing in a frustrating situation.
Connecting to God's Kingdom
Service Outside Local Church
Your Score
43.6
Benchmark
67.4
Struggling12th Percentile
Feedback

Serving beyond your own church community is an area with a lot of room to grow, and that's completely understandable, it often develops later, once other parts of faith feel steady. Small, local, low-pressure steps are the way in.

Action Steps
  • Notice one need in your wider community this week and take a single small action.
  • Join something a friend is already doing rather than starting from scratch.
Notice Needs
Your Score
65.4
Benchmark
65.9
Growing Steadily34th Percentile
Feedback

You're starting to notice needs and opportunities to help around you, which is the first step of a serving life. Awareness usually comes before action, and you're building it.

Action Steps
  • Once a day, notice one person who could use a small kindness.
  • Act on just one of those noticings this week.
Moved to Action
Your Score
59.2
Benchmark
54.6
Struggling26th Percentile
Feedback

Turning compassion into action is an area to keep growing. It's common to feel for people more easily than to act, and the gap closes through small, repeated steps.

Action Steps
  • Pick one need you already care about and do one concrete thing about it this week.
  • Make the step small enough that you'll actually follow through.
Reachout Classmates
Your Score
57.7
Benchmark
59.6
Struggling24th Percentile
Feedback

Reaching out to peers, especially those on the edges, is an area with room to grow, and it can feel vulnerable. Warmth offered in small ways tends to matter more than you'd expect.

Action Steps
  • Say hi to one person this week who often gets overlooked.
  • Invite one classmate into something you're already doing.
Help Marginalized
Your Score
56.7
Benchmark
56.3
Struggling30th Percentile
Feedback

Caring practically for people on the margins is a growth area, and a meaningful one. Proximity usually grows compassion, so nearness is the first step.

Action Steps
  • Learn one specific need in your community and one group already meeting it.
  • Show up once, even briefly, rather than waiting to feel ready.
School Service
Your Score
57.7
Benchmark
59.7
Struggling32nd Percentile
Feedback

Contributing to the health of your school or wider environment is developing. Small, consistent contributions add up more than occasional big ones.

Action Steps
  • Do one small thing that makes your school a little better this week.
  • Invite a friend to do it with you.
Service Local Church
Your Score
64.4
Benchmark
50.6
Growing Steadily38th Percentile
Feedback

You're growing in serving within your local church, and there's momentum to build on. Finding a spot that fits how God made you makes serving sustainable.

Action Steps
  • Try one serving role that matches something you already enjoy.
  • Commit to it for a short, defined season rather than forever.
Evangelism
Your Score
52.0
Benchmark
54.9
Struggling8th Percentile
Feedback

Sharing your faith with others is the area with the most room to grow right now, and there is zero pressure here, this almost always comes last, and gently. It grows naturally out of your own security and your friendships, both of which you have. Start with presence, not persuasion.

Action Steps
  • Simply pray for one person you care about, with no agenda beyond love.
  • Let your faith show up in how you treat people before it shows up in words.
  • If a natural conversation opens, share one honest sentence about what faith means to you.
03

Strengths & Growth Areas

Your three highest and three lowest scales relative to the benchmark. Open any scale to see its feedback and action steps.

Your Strengths
Spiritual FriendshipSpiritual Community
Your Score
82.5
Benchmark
50.2
Thriving88th Percentile
Feedback

Spiritual friendship is one of your greatest strengths. You have real relationships where faith is shared honestly, and that is one of the most powerful engines of spiritual growth there is. These friendships are a resource you can lean on for every other area.

Action Steps
  • Name the friend who most helps you grow, and tell them specifically how.
  • Invite one of these friends into an area you're working on so you're not doing it alone.
  • Look for one person you could offer this same kind of friendship to.
GratitudeGod
Your Score
84.0
Benchmark
64.5
Thriving85th Percentile
Feedback

Gratitude is one of your clearest strengths. You have a real capacity to notice and receive good gifts as gifts, and that posture reshapes how you see God, yourself, and your circumstances. Grateful people are markedly more resilient and joyful over time.

Action Steps
  • Keep a simple daily practice of naming three specific things you're thankful for.
  • Turn gratitude outward once this week by telling someone exactly why you're grateful for them.
  • On a hard day, look for the smallest gift you can still honestly thank God for.
Corporate WorshipSpiritual Community
Your Score
78.6
Benchmark
57.3
Thriving82nd Percentile
Feedback

Corporate worship is a clear strength for you. Gathering with others to worship genuinely moves and forms you, and that shared rhythm is a deep well of grace. It's the kind of practice that steadies faith over a lifetime.

Action Steps
  • Come to worship a few minutes early to arrive with your heart ready.
  • Carry one line from a song or prayer into your week.
  • Invite someone who's been on the margins to worship with you.
Growth Areas
EvangelismGod's Kingdom
Your Score
52.0
Benchmark
54.9
Struggling8th Percentile
Feedback

Sharing your faith with others is the area with the most room to grow right now, and there is zero pressure here, this almost always comes last, and gently. It grows naturally out of your own security and your friendships, both of which you have. Start with presence, not persuasion.

Action Steps
  • Simply pray for one person you care about, with no agenda beyond love.
  • Let your faith show up in how you treat people before it shows up in words.
  • If a natural conversation opens, share one honest sentence about what faith means to you.
Service Outside Local ChurchGod's Kingdom
Your Score
43.6
Benchmark
67.4
Struggling12th Percentile
Feedback

Serving beyond your own church community is an area with a lot of room to grow, and that's completely understandable, it often develops later, once other parts of faith feel steady. Small, local, low-pressure steps are the way in.

Action Steps
  • Notice one need in your wider community this week and take a single small action.
  • Join something a friend is already doing rather than starting from scratch.
Self CareSelf & Others
Your Score
51.8
Benchmark
62.9
Struggling15th Percentile
Feedback

Caring for yourself is the area with the most room to grow right now, and that's common, especially for people who give a lot to others. This isn't selfishness; you can only pour out from a place that's also being filled. Small, gentle steps matter more than big changes here.

Action Steps
  • Choose one small, restoring thing and protect a little time for it this week, without guilt.
  • Notice when you're running on empty, and treat that as information rather than weakness.
  • Let someone care for you in one concrete way this week.
04

Areas Going Well & Not Going Well (check all that apply)

Items you checked as going well or not going well in each area. The checkbox shows what you selected; the bar shows the percentage of similar-age peers who selected each item.

You selected thisYou did not select thisGoing well (peer %)Not going well (peer %)
Going Well
Sensing God's presence
58%
Feeling loved by God
61%
Trusting God with the future
54%
Experiencing peace in prayer
49%
Seeing God at work in daily life
46%
Not Going Well
Doubting whether God cares
24%
Feeling far from God
27%
Anger or frustration toward God
16%
Prayer feeling empty or forced
31%
Going Well
Being honest with people I trust
55%
Forgiving someone who hurt me
42%
Setting healthy boundaries
38%
Asking for help when I need it
34%
Not Going Well
Comparing myself to others
57%
Struggling to rest or slow down
44%
Feeling lonely or unseen
39%
Holding onto a grudge
22%
Going Well
Having real spiritual friendships
62%
Feeling I belong
58%
Being encouraged by others' faith
51%
Serving alongside others
44%
Not Going Well
Feeling on the outside of a group
29%
Hard to open up in community
33%
Conflict with someone at church
18%
Going Well
A regular prayer rhythm
47%
Reading or listening to Scripture
52%
Worshiping through music
59%
Finding God in creation
41%
Not Going Well
Staying consistent with practices
48%
Getting distracted in prayer
43%
Practices feeling like a checklist
30%
Going Well
Noticing people who are hurting
45%
Helping without being asked
33%
Standing up for someone
28%
Not Going Well
Sharing my faith with others
39%
Serving beyond my own circles
41%
Making time to serve
36%
Feeling I have little to offer
21%
Going Well
Chapel messages that stick with me
54%
Worship in chapel
61%
Time to reflect during chapel
42%
Not Going Well
Staying engaged during chapel
37%
Chapel feeling relevant to my life
33%
Going Well
Small groups or Bible studies
49%
Retreats or trips
57%
Mentoring or discipleship
38%
Not Going Well
Finding a program that fits me
34%
Making time for programs
41%
05

Spiritual Outcomes

How your spiritual life and well-being compare with similar-age peers. Bars show the benchmark distribution; the checkmark shows your own response.

Spiritual Well-Being
Excellent
21%
Good
48%
Fair
25%
Poor
6%
Overall Well-Being
Excellent
18%
Good
45%
Fair
28%
Poor
8%

Frequency of Religious Activities

Your response vs. the benchmark mean. Scale: 1 = Never · 2 = A few times a year · 3 = Monthly · 4 = Weekly · 5 = Several times a week · 6 = Daily

Attending worship services
Your Score
4
Benchmark
4.1
Prayer / study / education groups
Your Score
3
Benchmark
3.0
Individual prayer
Your Score
5
Benchmark
4.6
Reading / listening to the Bible
Your Score
3
Benchmark
3.5
Worship music
Your Score
5
Benchmark
4.4
Faith as Life Foundation
Strongly disagree
4%
Disagree
8%
Neither
15%
Agree
42%
Strongly agree
31%
Evangelism / Discipling Frequency
Never
23%
A few times a year
31%
Monthly
21%
Weekly
18%
Daily
8%

Faith as Life Foundation: My Christian faith and beliefs lie behind my whole approach to life.

Evangelism / Discipling: How often did you talk with someone about your faith in a way meant to help them grow?

Spiritual & Emotional Struggles

Sorted by how common each is among peers; the checkmark shows what you currently endorse.

Feeling anxious or worried
58%
Comparing myself to others
54%
Feeling down or discouraged
47%
Loneliness
41%
Doubts about faith
36%
Pressure to perform
34%
Feeling distant from God
29%
Anger I struggle to manage
19%
06

Demographics

The checkmark shows your answer to each question; the percentage bars show the distribution of answers across the benchmark group.

Your Age
You
16
Benchmark Mean
16.2
SD 0.8 · range 15-17
Benchmark Group
Respondents
2,051
Age Range
15-17
Gender
Male
48%
Female
50%
Prefer not to say
2%
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
58%
Hispanic / Latino
15%
Black / African American
9%
Asian / Pacific Islander
8%
Multiracial
7%
Other
2%
Are you a Christian?
Yes
82%
Not sure
13%
No
5%
Year in School
Freshman
26%
Sophomore
25%
Junior
25%
Senior
24%
Religious Affiliation
Non-denominational
32%
Baptist
19%
Catholic
14%
Presbyterian / Reformed
9%
Methodist / Wesleyan
8%
Pentecostal / Charismatic
8%
Other
10%
How often do you attend religious services?
More than weekly
22%
Weekly
45%
A few times a month
18%
A few times a year
11%
Never
4%