Scoring Guide
How to read LUMA's provisional research-scale scores.
LUMA reports scores on a provisional 0–100 research scale. The direction is straightforward: higher scores indicate that love-anxiety-related experiences are more salient in your responses right now; lower scores indicate lower salience in this assessment, not the complete absence of anxiety.
How to read your score
LUMA scores run from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate that love-anxiety-related experiences are more salient in your responses right now. Lower scores indicate lower salience in this assessment; they do not prove that you have no anxiety.
Provisional interpretation bands
0–39
Lower salience
Anxiety-related experiences are less prominent in this response pattern.
40–65
Moderate salience
Anxiety-related experiences are present at a mid-range level in this response pattern.
66–100
Elevated salience
Anxiety-related experiences are more prominent in this response pattern.
How LUMA calculates it
- 1Each item is answered on a 1–7 agreement scale.
- 2Reverse-scored items are recoded so that all items point in the same direction: higher values represent more anxiety-related salience.
- 3Item means are converted to a provisional 0–100 research-scale score. The overall score is the average of the six dimension scores.
- 4Your primary pattern is the dimension with the highest score; the secondary pattern is the next highest. This describes relative salience, not a diagnosis.
Important limitation
These thresholds are provisional Research Beta rules, not validated clinical cut-offs or population norms. Scores are not percentiles, do not measure clinical severity, and should not be used to diagnose or label a mental health condition.
Why context matters
The same score can arise in different relationship situations. Read the dimension profile, relationship context, and report narrative together rather than treating the overall score as a complete description of you.
Developed within Center for Health and Medical Research, Panorama Research Institute.