How does Lea make decisions?

Lea Baumgartner decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is medium.

What does Lea react critically to?

Above all when something touches Lea’s core concerns: “A fatigue attack forces her to leave a block seminar halfway through” and “An acquaintance asks in passing whether she's 'all better again by now'.” The bias that shapes Lea’s judgment most is “Overcompensation reflex.”

What is Lea suited for as a test persona?

For pretesting content from the perspective of “Social work student, FH St. Pölten”, Life-World “The Meaning-Seekers · Values & Sustainability” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

Lea Baumgartner

Social work student, FH St. Pölten · St. Pölten, Lower Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Meaning-Seekers · Values & Sustainability Decides: rational 24 yrs · Austria

Between outings with the youth center group, term papers, and precisely timed rest windows, Lea Baumgartner (24) keeps two calendars in sync that shouldn't really fit together. Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 22, the social work student from Herzogenburg (FH St. Pölten) has lived in a body that changes the rules without warning — and with a sentence she hears far too often: "You really can't tell just by looking at you."

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Tech affinity

Functional and pragmatic rather than gadget-loving: a budget Android phone with precisely configured reminders for medication and breaks, a simple homemade spreadsheet for an overview, occasionally text-to-speech on bad vision days. New technology only interests her if it solves a concrete everyday problem.

Defining bias

Because having the diagnosis doubted is a recurring experience, she often takes on more in groups than her body can actually handle that day — carries the heavier box, stays until the very end — so as not to give anyone a reason to ask questions. She usually pays for it only the next day, alone.

How she decides

Thorough and weighed with a safety margin for anything that concerns her body. On academic and everyday decisions, by contrast, strikingly spontaneous and sometimes chaotic — a term paper gets rewritten overnight, an internship spot gets accepted on short notice without first working out the commute.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Lea tick

Openness

58 · medium

Conscientiousness

47 · medium

Extraversion

52 · medium

Agreeableness

62 · medium

Neuroticism

70 · high

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Overcompensation reflex high

Symptom catastrophizing high

Visibility devaluation high

Values

Self-determination
Fairness/justice
Self-efficacy over withdrawal
Community/closeness
Humor as coping

Fears

A fatigue attack forces her to leave a block seminar halfway through
An acquaintance asks in passing whether she's 'all better again by now'

Motivations

The MRI check-up shows no new lesions
A kid from the youth-center group notices on their own that she needs a break and slows the others down without her having to say anything
SKN St. Pölten turns a game around in the final minutes, and she's in the stands with her roommate

Common questions

Lea at a glance

How does Lea make decisions?: Lea Baumgartner decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is medium.
What does Lea react critically to?: Above all when something touches Lea’s core concerns: “A fatigue attack forces her to leave a block seminar halfway through” and “An acquaintance asks in passing whether she's 'all better again by now'.” The bias that shapes Lea’s judgment most is “Overcompensation reflex.”
What is Lea suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Social work student, FH St. Pölten”, Life-World “The Meaning-Seekers · Values & Sustainability” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

What Lea pays attention to