Directory of Survey Instruments

The Components of Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Scale developed by Kite and LaMar is a multidimensional measure using a 5-point Likert scale items ranging from 1 Strongly Disagree to 5 Strongly Agree.

The Cross-Cultural World-Mindedness Scale evaluates attitudes toward race, religion, immigration, patriotism, economics, war, world government, and global education.

The Homosexuality Attitude Scale assesses stereotypes, misconceptions, and anxieties toward homosexual people unidimensionally (favorable or unfavorable) using a likert design.

The Immigration Attitudes Inventory is a self-reporting instrument designed to measure perceptions toward immigration.

The Racial Identity Attitude Scales, or RIAS, were developed as a self-report method to evaluate the types of attitude in the four phases of Cross’ model of Nigrescence.

The Sport Psychology Attitude-Revised (SPA-R) is an instrument used for the assessment of attitudes toward sport psychology in general.

The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a self-report measure consisting simply of a 10 centimeter line with a statement at each end representing one extreme of the dimension being measured (most often intensity of pain).

The Teacher Beliefs-TSELI (Tschannen-Moran & Johnson, 2011) is a 22-item survey instrument designed to measure teachers’ sense of efficacy for literacy instruction.

The Career Assessment Inventory takes individual’s workplace interests and compares them with other individuals currently in one of the 111 careers in their database.

Developed for education and career guidance programs, the Career Guidance Inventory (CGI) evaluates student interest in instructional programs that are offered by Trade, Vocational, Technical Schools, and Community Colleges.

The Conners’ Continuous Performance Test II evaluates attention problems and treatment usefulness.

The Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) is a questionnaire used to evaluate nine dimensions of job satisfaction related to overall satisfaction.

Intended for use in business or educational settings, the Job Stress Survey (JSS) evaluates the cause of work-related stress.

The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) has been recognized for more than a decade as the leading measure of burnout, incorporating the extensive research that has been conducted in the more than 25 years since its initial publication.

The Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) measures pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well, feelings of hopelessness and difficulties in dealing with work or in doing your job effectively, and work-related, secondary exposure to extremely stressful events.

Intended for high school and college students and adults, the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) serves as an interest register.

The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire was developed as a screening tool for histories of abuse and neglect.

The Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) is a brief self-report test that aids in assessing cognitive, affective, and behavioral signs of depression.

The Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, or CMAS, was developed to evaluate the nature and the degree of anxiety in children and adolescents.

The Children’s Social Behavioral Scale – Teacher Form is a 15-item survey that was developed to measure young children’s behavior with peers at school.

Specifically meant for children and adolescents, the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory evaluates parental report of behavioral problems

Developed specifically for teens, the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) evaluates concerns, demands, and conditions that teens encounter.

The Mullen Scales of Early Learning serve a purpose of assessing cognitive and motor ability.

The Olweus Bullying Questionnaire is published by Hazeldon and administered along with The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.

The Roberts Apperception Test for Children is an instrument used for the evaluation of the developmental adaptive function and clinical function in children.

The main purpose of the Self-Report Delinquency Scale is to assess if individuals have involved themselves in criminal behavior, and if so, the frequency of their actions.

The Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) is a 40-item likert-type scale which may be administered in groups or individually.

The WUG test is an instrument developed to allow the investigation of how the plural and other inflectional morphemes are acquired in a certain language.

The Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) is a 360-degree tool designed to assess the emotional competencies of individuals and organizations.

The Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) 2.0 is a revision of the EQ-i (Bar-On from 1997 and 2004). The reference group for which the EQ-i 2.0 scores are compared to is representative of the general population in North America.

The Emotional Quotient Inventory’s is a self-report intended to evaluate emotional and social functioning.

The Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory asses EI, Emotional Intelligence, in relation to the workplace.

The Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) is a method of measuring general Emotional Intelligence (EI), using four sub-scales: emotion perception, utilizing emotions, managing self- relevant emotions, and managing others’ emotions.

The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, or TEIQue, is an openly accessible instrument developed to measure global trait emotional intelligence.

Developed by Jeffrey A. Schaler, the Addiction Belief Scale (ABS) evaluates the addiction versus the free-will model concept and the confidence with it.

Developed specifically for adolescents, the Adolescent Drinking Index (ADI) assesses the degree of an individual’s drinking problem.

The Alcohol Clinical Index (ACI) is a brief measure of alcohol use problems with patients in primary care settings.

Developed for the evaluation of the nature and issues with alcohol use by John L. Horn, Kenneth W. Wanberg, and F. Mark Foster, the Alcohol Use Inventory (AUI) is a norm in testing alcohol patterns.

The Barthel Index (BI) serves as a measure of daily living activities in relation to personal care and mobility of the patient.

One of the few available instruments for body esteem, the Body Esteem Scale investigates characteristics in young women and young men related to body esteem.

The Brief Pain Inventory evaluates the intensity, quality, relief and interference of pain in cancer patients, and patients’ ideas of the causes of pain.

BSI or Brief Symptom Inventory is an instrument that evaluates psychological distress and psychiatric disorders in people.

The Campbell Interest and Skill Survey created by David P. Campbell is a self-report instrument that measures work-related interest and skills to help guide an individual to a specific occupational area.

For the purpose of assessing and diagnosis brain injury, the Comprehensive Trail-Making Test is composed of five visual search and sequencing task sets.

Developed as a multidimensional self-report mood inventory, the Derogatis Affects Balance Scale (DABS) assesses positive and negative affectivity, affective balance, and affective intensity.

Developed by Gelinas, the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) evaluates the basic and instrumental activities in daily activities of elderly people with dementia.

The Drinking Context Scale is a self-report measure of the likeliness of drinking excessively.

The Duke Health Profile (The DUKE) contains six health measures which are physical, mental, social, general, perceived health, and self-esteem.

The Five Factor Wellness Inventory (FF-WEL) is used to help individuals make healthier living choices by assessing characteristics of wellness.

The Food Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) is a 20 item self-report questionnaire that measures food intake habits.

The Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) serves a screening tool for evaluating ADI’s independence.

Developed in the 1970s, the General Health Questionnaire is a method to quantify the risk of developing psychiatric disorders.

The Health Status Questionnaire 2.0, or HSQ, is a method for measuring health attributes, health status change, and risk of depression.

The Life Closure Scale, or LCS, is an instrument developed for assessing psychological symptoms that occur during the dying process.

The Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale (OEE) contains 9 statements rated by participants using a 5-point likert scale from 1 “Strongly Disagree” to 5 “Strongly Agree”.

The Pain Disability Index is a tool used for measuring the degree of pain a patient is experiencing.

The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a multipurpose instrument used for diagnosis, screening, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression.

The Physical Self-Maintenance Scale was developed to gauge disability in an elderly people currently in a community or institution for use in planning and assessing treatment.

There are different types of alcoholism that go far beyond an alcoholic who drinks every day.

The Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36) evaluates the functional health and well-being of patients.

The Stanford 7-day Physical Activity Recall Scale (PAR) estimates both work-related and non work-related physical activity.

The Symptom Checklist-90 Revised is a method to evaluate psychological problems and identify symptoms.

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is a school-based survey used to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth.

The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS) has 24 items, each using a 7-point likert scale from 1 “Strongly Disagree” to 7 “Strongly Agree.”

The Leader Attributes Inventory (LAI) measures the degree to which individuals possess each of 37 attributes (characteristics, knowledge, skills, and values possessed by individuals) that predispose successful leadership performance as a leader in vocational education.

The Leader Competency Inventory (LCI) is a method for measuring an individual’s use of four specific dimensions of leadership – information seeking, conceptual thinking, strategic orientation, and service orientation.

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is a 30 item questionnaire containing five subscales for each of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.

The Leadership Skills Inventory (LSI) is designed primarily for leaders, letting them assess their own abilities in relation to a leadership model created by the author.

The Leadership Skills Inventory – Karnes is one of several instruments that measure an individual’s abilities in the area of leadership.

The Leadership Skills Profile identifies which individual’s have the best leadership qualities. Each organization can use this model due to the customizable format for their specific interest.

The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) evaluates three different leadership styles: Transformational, Transactional, and Passive-Avoidant.

The Toxic Leadership Scale was developed in order to better study behaviors that make effective leaders.

The Classroom Environment Scale (CES) is intended to assess the environment of a high school or junior high school classroom.

The Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI) measures attitudes toward self in the context of pre-post evaluation, individual diagnosis, or classroom screening.

The Coping Resources Inventory (CRI) measures how people handle stress, conceived in five basic ways which correspond to the measure’s scales.

Specifically intended for post-secondary students, the Educational Interest Inventory (EII) identifies an individual’s preferences for college educational programs.

The Environmental Literacy Instrument is used to identify awareness of the environment along with issues associated with it.

The Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement is educational tool for children, measuring such areas as math, reading, written language, and oral language.

Revised in 2005, the Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) is a widely known instrument used for researching characteristics of different learning styles.

This self-report survey, Learning Styles Inventory by Brown and Cooper, measure methods of receiving and presenting information of intermediate and secondary students.

The Learning Tactics Inventory (LTI) instrument measures an individual’s learning ability and their learning behavior.

The Listening Styles Profile (LSP-16) is a field-tested instrument that was developed to understand how people listen and what they prefer to listen to.

The Mentorship Effectiveness Scale was developed to provide a standardized tool for rating the mentorship experience and effectiveness of the mentor, focusing specifically on 12 behavioral aspects of the mentor.

The series of revised scales, Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales, are used to investigate the relation between a learning environment and a student’s motivation, affect, and behavior.

Designed for the nursing field, the PSB Aptitude for Practical Nursing Examination (PSB-APNE) aids in selecting nurses that have the highest chance at success in the program.

The PSB Registered Nursing School Aptitude Examination (PSB-RNSAE) is a measure to assess the readiness or chance of success of an individual for the nursing educational program.

The Qualitative Reading Inventory allows for the assessment of students’ skills in reading ranging from elementary to high school.

The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) evaluates a wide diversity of functions: short-term auditory-verbal memory, rate of learning, learning strategies, retroactive, and proactive interference, presence of confabulation of confusion in memory processes, retention of information, and differences between learning and retrieval.

The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale, or SDLRS, is a method for evaluating an individual’s perception of their skills and attitudes that are associated with self-directedness in learning.

Used by the Department of Education, the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10 not the SAT college admittance test) permits educators to gauge students’ progress in education.

The purpose of the Teacher Efficacy Scale is to measure teachers’ attitude towards working with students.

The Teacher Locus of Control (TLC) is a 28-item, forced-choice instrument.

The Teacher Self-Efficacy scale is a 10 item measure developed by Ralf Schwarzer, Gerdamarie Schmitz, and Gary Daytner in 1999.

Three moderately correlated factors have been consistently found in the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES).

Based on a list of 32 teaching skills developed from interviews of teachers in a teacher training program, the Teaching Confidence Scale asks takers to rate how confident they were in their ability to accomplish each skill using a 6-point likert design.

The Achievement Motivation Profile (AMP) evaluates achievement motivation and is intended for underachievement students.

Intended for the use high school upperclassmen and college students, the Vocational-Interest Inventory (VII) aids in career exploration and predicting college-majors.

The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) contains 80 reading passages presenting problems, statements, arguments, and interpretations, each requiring the application of analytic reasoning skills.

Used as a general test the intelligence, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale –Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) was developed to assess cognitive ability for adults.

The Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory (DRRI) is used to assess the key deployment-related factors implicated in the health and well-being of military veterans.

The Campbell Organizational Survey (COS7) measures different dimensions of employee attitudes toward their work environment.

The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was created to address aspects of resilience and for use in clinical practice.

The 20-item Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Op) was created to measure one of the most common stressors for police officers; operational stress.

The Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org) is a 20-item measure created to monitor one of the most stressful occupations in North America; policing.

The Survey of Perceived Organizational Support (SPOS) is a one-dimensional measure of the general belief held by an employee that the organization is committed to him or her, values their continued membership, and is generally concerned about their well-being.

The Profile of Mood States (POMS) original scale contains 65 self-report items using the 5-point Likert Scale. Participants can choose from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely).

The Psychological Empowerment Instrument developed by Dr. Gretchen M. Spreitzer is a tool used by many company owners that wish to be successful in today’s global business environments.

The Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) measures individual differences in attributional style.

The Barron Welsh Art Scale (BWAS) is a non-verbal measure of creativity.

The multi-purposed instrument, 16PF or 16 Personality Factors, is used as a career evaluation tool, for couples counseling and personality assessment.

The Adjective Checklist (ACL) contains 300 person-descriptive adjectives and adjectival phrases such as “absent-minded”, “active”, “dominant”, “adaptable”, and “jolly”.

Developed in 2001, the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP) is an instrument permitting the evaluation of adult attachment.

The Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) was officially developed in 1990 but built on the earlier work of Hazen & Shaver (1987) and Levy & Davis (1988).

Developed to assess boredom, the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) was created in 1986. It is specifically used to determine the cause for periods of boredom and the steps to combat it.

Planned for speech-language pathologists, the Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition determines the cognitive or communicative skills that are damaged in patients with neurological injury.

The California Psychological Inventory assesses social communication and interpersonal behavior.

The Caring Efficacy Scale© (CES) was developed as a tool for conducting patient outcome and cost studies.

The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) is an instrument for identifying and diagnosing disorders in language performance.

The Collective Efficacy Scale is a 10-item Likert-type scale developed to measure “collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good.”

The Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales (CBRS) is a large, multi-informant instrument used to gain a broad understanding or overview of a young person’s (6–18 years, 8–18 for self-report forms) behaviors, emotions, and academic and social profile.

The Derogatis Psychiatric Rating Scale (DPRS) is multidimensional scale for professionals to measure a patient’s psychological symptomatic distress.

The Differential Ability Scales (DAS-II) were developed as an evaluation tool for the cognitive ability and achievement of children.

The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, or DAS, is a relationship adjustment self-report measure.

This 36-item self report, Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR), is used to evaluate the construct of adult attachment.

The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale (FACES-IV) was developed to evaluate the adaptability and cohesion dimensions in family interactions.

The General Self-Efficacy Scale – Schwarzer (GSES, sometimes seen GSE), designed for ages 12 and up, was created to assess perceived self-efficacy regarding coping and adaptation abilities in both daily activities and isolated stressful events.

Developed to assess symptoms of psychopathy, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is a diagnostic tool which allows people to rate their psychopathic or antisocial habits.

As a suicide risk evaluation tool, the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 is used by psychologists, licensed social workers, and licensed counselors.

The Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised (JPI-R) is a measure of personality.

The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) is designed to measure anxiety and depression through a 10-item questionnaire.

The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6) is an abbreviated version of the K10, widely used measure for either screening or severity.

As a part of the National Health Insurance Study, the Mental Health Inventory (MHI) is a method for evaluating mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, behavioral control, positive effect, and general distress.

The Millon Index of Personality Styles Revised, MIPS, evaluates personality styles specifically for adults.

The widely used test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), is a method for identifying personal, social, and behavioral issues in psychiatric patients.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is commonly used instrument for the evaluation of a person’s personality and behavior.

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory-16 (NPI-16) is a shortened form of the NPI-40 for measuring subclinical narcissism.

Daniel Ames developed the NPI-16, a further shortened version based on the NPI-40.

Developed as a measure of the Five Factor Model, the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised uses these five dimensions – emotional, interpersonal, experiential, attitudinal, and motivational styles – to evaluate adult personality.

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) comprises two mood scales, one that measures positive affect and the other which measures negative affect.

The Post-traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (PDS) provides a brief and reliable self-report measure of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder. This instrument can be used in both research and clinical settings.

The Psychological Empowerment Instrument developed by Dr. Gretchen M. Spreitzer is a tool used by many company owners that wish to be successful in today’s global business environments.

The PTSD Symptom Scale (PSS-I) first published in 1993, is a semi-structured 17-item interview aiding in assessing the presence and severity of DSM-IV PTSD symptoms.

The QLI measures importance of, and satisfaction with, different aspects of life.

The Quality of Life Index for Adults (A-QLI) is a comprehensive multidimensional measurement tool that is able to reflect the complexity of Quality of Life outcomes in older adults.

The Social Interaction Self-Statement Test is a commonly used self-report test for social anxiety.

The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB) is a general indicator of perceived well-being used for the assessment of individual and congregational spiritual well-being.

The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) assesses various areas of anger and the traits of experiencing anger.

The Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis is an instrument for assessing the influence of an individual’s personal characteristics in relationships.

The Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS), developed by Patti Harrison & Thomas Oakland, is a method for comprehensive measure individuals with an adaptive behavior scale.

Developed as a measure of recurrent thinking, the Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ) tests subjects’ responses to unpleasant thoughts that they experience.

The Validity Indicator Profile uses verbal and nonverbal subtests to measure response styles that are used by neuropsychologists, forensic psychologists, clinical psychologists, civil and criminal lawyers.

The Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WAYS) is used to measure the coping processes.

The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) is a forced-choice personality test that has been scientifically validated and is comprised of 144 paired statements.

The Relationship Self-Efficacy Scale is a 35-item instrument which asks “Within your present relationship, how confident are YOU in YOUR ability to do each of the following?”

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale is a tool for assessing global self-esteem. Psychologists and sociologists are common users for this instrument.

The Self-Esteem Index (SEI) is a multidimensional instrument that measures how adolescents and children perceive and value themselves.

The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) discriminates between anxious and non-anxious groups.

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a commonly used instrument for quantifying levels of depression.

The Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS) contains 12 statements relating to the consideration of immediate and delayed consequences of behaviors.

The Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) instrument measures discomfort and distress in interpersonal interactions.

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) is a 7-item instrument used to briefly measure or assess one of the most common mental disorders.

This instrument, Impact of Event Scale (IES), evaluates the distress that is caused by traumatic events.

The Police Stress Survey (PSS) consists of 60 items corresponding to police work related events.

The Post-traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, or PDS, allows for post-traumatic stress disorders to be detected and diagnosed.

The Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SADS) uses a questionnaire including 28 true/false items.

The STAI, or State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) is an instrument that quantifies adult anxiety (a children’s version is also available).

The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) is a method of measuring levels of anxiety in patients who have anxiety-related symptoms.

Zung’s model for depression, the Zung Self-Rating Depression scale, measures psychological and somatic symptoms linked to depression.

The Self-Compassion Scale examines the relation of self-compassion to positive psychological health and the five factor model of personality.

Developed in 1989 by Dr. Bonnie L Yegidis, the Abuse Risk Inventory for Women (ARI) is a screening tool intended to identify women at risk for abuse.