A reflective tool · 25 statements · about 5 minutes

The Hurry Sickness Self‑Assessment

For higher education & student affairs professionals. This tool helps you reflect on how much hurry sickness — a chronic pattern of rushing, time urgency, and constant busyness — is present in your professional life. It is a reflective tool, not a diagnostic or clinically validated instrument.

For each statement, choose how true it is of your experience over the past three months:

1Never / Strongly disagree 2Rarely / Disagree 3Sometimes / Neutral 4Often / Agree 5Almost always / Strongly agree
Answer all 25 statements to see your results.
Your total score
0 / 125

Your five dimensions

The cut scores below are logically constructed but empirically arbitrary — they have not been tested against real-world data. Read the score bands as general guides for reflection, not as validated thresholds. Any dimension scoring 18 or higher merits focused attention, even if your total score is moderate.

Please keep in mind: this self-assessment is a reflective and conversational tool. It has not undergone psychometric validation. It is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health evaluation. If your team's scores are consistently high, that points to a cultural and structural problem, not an individual one — a signal for leaders to examine staffing levels, availability expectations, and how success is defined and rewarded.