This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

A marked interest in, attraction to or curiosity about fire and its contexts.

Your answers point to signs that are present but contained on fascination with fire. The moderate level typically reflects an activation at times, often tied to identifiable triggers (stressful situations, relational conflict, periods of fatigue or isolation). At this stage, the dimension is not dominant in how you function, but it is worth observing: the main risk of the moderate level is that it worsens through accumulation. In practice, tracking the frequency rather than the intensity of a single episode gives a truer picture of how things are evolving: it is repetition, more than any one-off surge, that tips the moderate toward the marked. Keeping a regular check (a brief journal, a conversation with a trusted person) can help you anticipate. Identifying two or three recurring triggers and preparing a simple response in advance — a pause, a phone call, a soothing activity — lowers the chance the dimension takes hold. If other dimensions shift in parallel, this one can become more prominent through a cumulative effect; and if these signs gain ground despite your efforts, raising it early with a professional is in no way disproportionate — it is often at this stage that support is most effective and shortest.

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

A build-up of tension or excitement preceding the lighting.

Your answers describe a marked trait on tension before the act. At this level, the dimension can sustain itself through self-reinforcing mechanisms (avoidance, narrowing of attention, or rumination), whose exact form depends on the dimension concerned. This trait typically shows up across several everyday contexts, not only in exceptional situations. Understanding the self-reinforcing mechanism is often the key: for example, avoiding a situation brings short-term relief but confirms to the brain that it was dangerous, which strengthens the avoidance next time. Spotting this kind of loop in your own daily life — without judging yourself — is already a lever for change, because we can only act on what we have first identified. It can interact with other high dimensions of the profile — for instance by worsening the sense of overload, or by limiting the resources available to cope. It may help to talk it through with a professional (psychologist, doctor) to explore in more detail what is at play and to identify levers for action; structured approaches such as cognitive and behavioural therapies work precisely on these chains, through small, concrete and realistic steps rather than willpower alone.

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

Pleasure, relief or soothing tied to fire or to its lighting.

Your moderate score concerns the pleasure, relief or soothing tied to fire or to its lighting. Without judgment or stigma, it is this dimension of internal gratification that characterises a pyromania-type impulse, clearly distinct from a fire set for a practical, fraudulent or vengeful purpose. One way of reading it, to weigh against your own experience, is that fire here acts as a regulator of an inner tension: the fascination, attraction or soothing it provides answers an emotional state, more than an external goal. The moderate nature of the score indicates a tendency that is present without being dominant. It is important to be clear: this test is a way of identifying, not a diagnosis, and carries no moral judgment whatsoever. If this attraction comes with impulses that are hard to control, it falls within an impulse-control disorder that can be supported — talking to a professional, in a confidential and non-judgmental setting, is the most protective step, for yourself as much as for others.

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Lighting without practical motive, inability to resist, repercussions.

Your high score describes acting on the impulse without practical motive, an inability to resist, and real repercussions. Without judgment or stigma, the absence of any external motive and the loss of control are precisely what define a pyromania-type impulse as an impulse-control disorder, rather than a deliberate act aimed at some gain. One way of reading it, to weigh against your own experience, is that the act responds to a build-up of tension that it relieves temporarily, within a cycle that sustains itself and that willpower alone struggles to interrupt. The high level of the score, on this dimension, deserves to be taken seriously — all the more so because the relationship to fire involves safety, your own and that of others. The essential point: this kind of impulse can be supported and treated. Consulting a professional (CBT and, depending on the case, medical follow-up are indicated) is here not only useful but important. A high score is a legitimate invitation to ask for help, in a confidential and non-judgmental setting.