Research & publications
Six research clusters, findings shared along with their limits, and scientific works you can trace back to the source.
The Moonshot Project
A moonshot is a big aspiration that sets the direction for Anvesana's research and development projects. Every project starts from a research question, grows into findings, and is then translated into results that can be used and shared.
Moonshot · Indies Lab
How can people be healthy and successful at work at the same time?
An applied research agenda to help organizations identify potential and pressure, improve their systems, and strengthen their people, so that they are healthy and successful at work.
People · Work systems · Psychosocial health
Employee wellbeing is falling. What needs fixing: the people, or their workload and pressure?
The path runs through work stress and burnout, and both can be changed. Organizations can hardly change personality tendencies; work stress and burnout are the points of intervention.
Raise wellbeing by fixing workload and pressure, not by selecting for personality.
When a leader is exhausted, who else carries the load?
A leader's burnout does not stop with the leader. Pressure is passed on through everyday leadership, then through how workloads and targets are distributed, until frontline teams absorb the accumulation from the two layers above them.
Basis of the finding: school principals, teachers, and education support staff (education sector).
A leader's mental health is not a private matter; the cost is borne by the team below.
Does burnout in your team look more like exhaustion, cynicism, or feeling stuck?
A total burnout score hides these differences: units with the same score may need different interventions.
Read burnout by dimension before choosing a program. One training package does not answer three problems.
Do “top employees” share the same profile in every position?
The cognitive abilities and personality traits that set top performers apart from the baseline differ from one position to another.
Basis of the finding: a study at a mining services company.
Build a success profile for each position, not one standard for the whole organization.
Our next search
These four findings are only a first step. Next, we are mapping what makes people healthy and successful at work at the same time, and retesting these patterns across sectors.
Bring a question from your organizationMoonshot · Research consortium
Understanding the factors that help students persist, adapt, and grow throughout their studies.
A research umbrella for understanding the factors and dynamics that help students persist, adapt, and keep growing through each level of education. The research is developed in stages: mapping factors, relationships between variables, and finally testing interventions.
Successful education is more than academic achievement. Students face academic demands, adjustment to a new environment, choices of field of study, changes in their psychological state, and social and institutional factors.
The capacity to endure, maintain functioning, and draw on resources when facing pressure.
The capacity to move beyond mere survival toward adaptation and development.
The context where that capacity shows: adaptation, continuation of studies, and academic performance.
Early research findings
Cognitive ability explained 23.1% of the variation in academic achievement. Analyzed together with work aptitude, interests, mechanical ability, and learning styles, the explained variation rose to 37.6%.
Cognitive ability matters, but it is not enough to understand students' academic achievement.
Mental toughness and neuroticism together explained 34% of the variation in college adjustment. The relationship between mental toughness and college adjustment differed at different levels of neuroticism.
Mental toughness does not work separately from underlying emotional stability.
Protective factor: the fit between students' interests and the major they chose. Risk factors: a lack of information about majors and campuses, a lack of preparation for entrance tests, and failure to meet the passing grade.
It is important to understand what happens before students enter higher education.
These findings are a starting point, not a final conclusion. The initial research used study designs in particular contexts and samples; the associations cannot yet be used to draw general conclusions about cause and effect. The model will keep developing together with partners.
Forms of collaboration
Developing methods with the expert team, instruments, data analysis, and participant recruitment, fieldwork, and research ethics.
Pilot interventions once the evidence is sufficient, along with recommendations, modules, and facilitator training.
Ethics and data protection
Research focus & moonshots
Moonshots set the direction. Research focus is how we do the work, from developing measurement tools to measurement fairness.
Moonshots set the direction · research focus is how we do the work
From question to publication
Stage 1 Ongoing research
The questions the Anvesana team is working on with its partners, and how far each has come. Interim results are shared only after review.
How can people be healthy and successful at work at the same time?
Workplace
Path Analysis of Teacher Burnout and Personality
Manuscript writing · Analysis is complete and has been reported to the partner; a manuscript for an international journal is being written.
Workplace
Workforce Resilience Map
Analysis · A resilience model is being developed from burnout and personality data.
Workplace
Within-School Clustering and Crossover of Burnout Among Principals, Teachers, and Educational Support Staff
Manuscript writing · The manuscript is nearly final and has not yet been submitted to a journal.
What helps students persist, adapt, and grow throughout their studies?
Career & education
Examining Determinant Factors of Wrong Major Phenomenon
Journal review · Reviewer revisions have been submitted; awaiting publication.
Career & education
Incremental Validity of Vocational Interests, Learning Styles, and Aptitudes Beyond Intelligence for Predicting Academic Performance
Manuscript writing · The full manuscript is ready to be submitted to a journal.
Career & education
Path Model for Career Maturity: The Transition from Senior High School to Higher Education
Design · The model framework has been agreed; companion instruments are being selected.
University students
Psychological Vulnerability of University Students
Data collection · Starting at one campus before expanding to the consortium members.
University students
Neurotic Personality as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Mental Toughness and College Adjustment
Manuscript writing · The manuscript draft is being written with the partner university.
The instruments both moonshots rely on, developed and tested here.
Career & education
Psychometric Properties of Kompas Minat Indonesia
Manuscript writing · Data for the Indonesian norms are still being added.
Personality
Two Decades of Personality Measurement: A Scoping Review
Journal review · Submitted to a journal and under review; not yet published.
Personality
Development and Validation of Code-Trait Profile: A Modular Personality Instrument Based on CB5T
Journal review · Submitted to a journal and under review; not yet published.
Workplace
Psychometric Properties Evaluation of Focusync: A Computerized Work Aptitude Test
Journal review · Submitted to a journal and under review; not yet published.
Career & education
Psychometric Properties of Indonesian General Cognitive Ability Test: Indeks Kognitif Nusantara Umum (IKN Umum)
Journal review · Submitted to a journal and under review; not yet published.
Career & education
Evaluasi Properti Psikometrik Inventori Gaya Belajar Indonesia Berbasis Experiential Learning Theory dari Kolb
Journal review · Submitted to a journal and under review; not yet published.
Stage 2 The Findings
Interim results from research still underway. We share them along with their limits so they can be discussed before they appear in a journal.
The Findings
What happens to efficiency when a task is given a time limit?
This study compared the Net Efficiency Score (NES) of 491 participants working on a task without a time limit, with a time limit, and then again without a time limit.
491 participants · school and university students
Before you read on, try answering first
NES is an index of cognitive work efficiency: the behavior of completing work correctly, without errors or rework.
Most of the variation in NES scores comes from differences between individuals, so work efficiency tends to be stable.
88.8% differences between individuals
Efficient people tend to stay efficient, whatever the conditions (ICC = 0.888).2.9% effect of working conditions
Working conditions still matter, but their effect is far smaller.NES can be used to recognize a person's potential, alongside other assessment results.
Because mistakes and corrections lower the score, two people who are equally fast can end up with different NES scores. Four patterns we often see:
After the time limit was removed, scores fell from their peak but stayed above the starting condition. The higher final score may also be related to a practice effect.
Set clear deadlines or time-limited tasks to improve work efficiency.
The tool we used
A computer-based test that measures how a person works on routine, repetitive tasks: how fast, how carefully, how steadily, and how they sustain their energy from start to finish.
Meet FocusyncAn invitation to collaborate
Figures follow Anvesana's publications, checked 2 October 2026: The Findings post (new tab) · TEMILNAS I ANI documentation (new tab)
Research enters the discussion room
The NES method, early results, and limitations were presented and discussed with forum participants.
Research presentationAnvesana presented its Net Efficiency Score research: the method, early results, limitations, and next directions for development were discussed with participants of the neuropsychology forum.
(opens the full-size poster in a new tab)Award · 15 October 2026
Anvesana's poster on the differentiation of vocational interests among Indonesian students received the Best Poster award at The 5th International Conference on Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Surabaya.
Among 2,869 students from junior high school to university who completed Kompas Minat Indonesia:
Stage 3 Publications & scientific forums
Anvesana's journal articles, proceedings, and scientific presentations, along with its researchers' work, linked straight to the source.
The 5th International Conference on Psychology and Education 2026
Best Poster15 October 2026 · OnlineGender and Educational-Level Differences in Vocational Interest Differentiation Among Indonesian Students. How clearly students' interests take shape at each level of education, presented by Rafli Sodiq Bagaskara.
Best PosterThe 4th International Conference on Psychology 2026
Psychological Insights for the Future of Education
13 October 2026 · Hybrid · KudusA Multitrait-Multimethod Validation of the Next Chapter Game-Based Assessment as a Measure of General Cognitive Ability. An early study of whether games can measure general cognitive ability, presented by Muhammad Hafiz Sabiqulhaq.
PresentedThe 1st International Online Conference on Human Intelligence
Measurement, Theories and Applications of Human Intelligence
25–26 March 2026 · Online · MDPI × Journal of IntelligenceGlobal Trends in Cognitive Measurement: A Bibliometric Analysis. A bibliometric review of where cognitive measurement research is heading worldwide, presented by Anvesana's Indies Lab team.
Conference abstract publishedThe 4th International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity
17–18 September 2025Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang · IndonesiaA comparative analysis of 2-option and 3-option response formats for computerized work aptitude test. The study that settled Focusync's response design, presented and published in the conference proceedings.
Published · DOI 10.1051/shsconf/202522404006
Efisiensi Performa Kognitif NES pada Kondisi Berbatas dan Tanpa Batas Waktu
PresentedA trail of knowledge
Affiliations follow each publication. Work by researchers under other affiliations is labeled as in the original source.
6 works found · Newest first
The 5th ICPE 2026 · Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (online)
How clearly formed are students' interests at each level of education? Among 2,869 school and university students who completed Kompas Minat Indonesia, interest differentiation was highest in senior high school and lowest in polytechnics, and women's profiles were more differentiated at every level. The poster was selected as Best Poster at ICPE 2026.
Anvesana Research Institute · SWPS University
The abstract is published in the ICPE 2026 program book. No proceedings paper or DOI was listed in the sources checked.
The 4th ICoP 2026 · Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Muria Kudus (hybrid)
Can games measure cognitive ability? Fifty-one adults completed the seven Next Chapter games and Indeks Kognitif Nusantara Umum. The combined game score tracked general cognitive ability and distinguished high from low scores fairly accurately, but the data do not yet support reading each game as a measure of a specific ability.
Anvesana Research Institute · Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember · SWPS University · University of Limerick
The abstract is published in the ICoP 2026 program book. This is an early study with a small sample; the full manuscript has not been submitted to a journal, and the proceedings publication announcement is scheduled for 16 November 2026.
TEMILNAS I ANI 2026 · Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
The Net Efficiency Score (NES) research was brought to a neuropsychology forum to discuss cognitive performance efficiency under two working-time conditions.
Anvesana Research Institute
The available links hold the agenda and documentation of the presentation. No proceedings paper or DOI was listed in the sources checked.
IOCHI 2026 · MDPI / Sciforum
A bibliometric study mapping the development of cognitive measurement research, its research themes, and the distribution of scientific contributions over the period 2011–2025.
Anvesana Research Institute & Universitas Gadjah Mada
The Sciforum page provides the abstract and citation information; the PDF material is also available through ResearchGate. The conference took place on 25–26 March 2026; no DOI has been listed.
SHS Web of Conferences · 224, 04006 · ICAP-H 2025, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang
A comparison of two- and three-option response formats in a computer-based work aptitude test, part of the measurement design research for Focusync.
Anvesana Research Institute
Jurnal Psikologi · 51(3), 272–296
A scoping review of 17 articles on vocational interest instruments in Indonesia, mapping their theoretical foundations and psychometric evidence as well as the need for further research.
Researchers' work · Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Universitas Airlangga, and University at Albany, SUNY
DOI: 10.22146/jpsi.101309 (new tab)Author affiliations follow the published article; this work does not list an affiliation with Anvesana Research Institute.
Metadata checked 1 October 2026. This list is a selection of works that have been traced; links open the source page in a new tab.
