Regulatory Identity Profile: A Self-Reflection Questionnaire

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The Regulatory Identity Profile is a 28-item self-report questionnaire for education and self-reflection. It operationalizes the self-reported side of Regulatory Identity, the domain proposed in Toward a General Theory of Embodied Identity (Marchtaler, 2026) as the characteristic way an individual’s nervous system detects, interprets and responds to change, together with its capacity to return to baseline. Items are rated on a five-point scale and scored across seven dimensions: Reactivity, Recovery, Body Awareness, Reading Signals, Load, Regulation Toolkit, and Inner and Outer Match. These translate the framework’s four constituent processes (autonomic regulation, interoception, allostatic load and predictive processing) into everyday self-report terms. The seventh dimension addresses the congruence between self-description and bodily state that the framework treats as especially informative. About a third of the items are reverse-scored. The questionnaire captures how people perceive their own regulation, not physiological regulation itself. It has not been validated, its scoring bands are provisional, and it is not intended for diagnosis, clinical decisions, or employment or selection screening. This deposit contains the fillable PDF with scoring sheet and result descriptions. An online version with automatic scoring is available at https://www.kenmarchtaler.com/regulatory-identity-profile.