Adolescent Prosociality Scale Test

Understand a teen’s prosocial strengths like empathy, support, and helping in about 3 minutes. With 16 focused items, it gives a clear snapshot to guide counseling or school support.

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Questions: 163 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

10/20

Prosocial Feelings (PF)

Measures an adolescent’s empathy and emotional responsiveness, including understanding and sharing others’ feelings.

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4 – 11: Low | 12 – 15: Moderate | 16 – 20: High

A score of 10 falls in the Low range, suggesting empathy and emotional responsiveness may be less consistently expressed across everyday situations.

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32/60

Prosocial Actions (PA)

Measures how often an adolescent engages in practical helping behaviors and support for others across everyday situations.

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Moderate

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12 – 38: Low | 39 – 47: Moderate | 48 – 60: High

A score of 32 falls in the Low range, suggesting prosocial actions are reported less frequently and may reflect limited experience or confidence in helping others.

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30/80

Prosociality (P)

Measures an adolescent’s overall tendency to engage in voluntary helping, supportive, and cooperative behaviors that strengthen social connections.

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Moderate

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16 – 49: Low | 50 – 61: Moderate | 62 – 80: High

A score of 30 falls in the Low range, suggesting a less frequent inclination toward prosocial actions and supportive engagement with others in everyday situations.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

School psychologists and counselors

41%OF USERS

They use it to quickly assess a teen’s willingness to help others and to plan support or track progress over time.

Teachers and class leaders

34%OF USERS

They take it to understand class dynamics and identify students who may need encouragement in empathy, cooperation, or peer support.

Parents of teenagers

25%OF USERS

They use it to get a clearer picture of their child’s kindness and helping habits and to decide what social skills to strengthen at home.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Prosocial Feelings (PF)

Average

12.4

Normal range

10.2 — 14.7

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Prosocial actions (Pa)

Average

34.9

Normal range

29 — 40.8

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Prosociality (P)

Average

40.7

Normal range

30 — 51.3

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

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- Sometimes
- Often
- Almost always
- Almost never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Almost always
- Almost never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Almost always

These are 3 of the 16 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Adolescent Prosociality Scale Test - Symptoms and Signs

empathy

prosociality

This measure is designed to assess adolescents’ self-reported tendency to engage in voluntary, other-oriented helping behaviors. The Adolescent Prosociality Scale provides a brief snapshot of prosocial dispositions relevant to peer, school, and community contexts.

The instrument includes 16 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Items ask respondents to rate the frequency or typicality of behaviors such as offering support, comforting others, and assisting when someone is in need.

Scores may be used to inform clinical or school-based screening and to support treatment planning or progress monitoring related to social functioning, empathy, and cooperative behavior. The Adolescent Prosociality Scale was developed by N. Eisenberg and G. R. Carlo.

Author: G. R. Carlo, N. Eisenberg

Literature: Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., & Knafo-Noam, A. Prosocial development. In M. E. Lamb & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science (7th ed.). Wiley. 2015.; Carlo, G., & Randall, B. A. The development of a measure of prosocial behaviors for late adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 2002.; Luengo Kanacri, B. P., Eisenberg, N., Tramontano, C., Zuffiano, A., Caprara, M. G., Regner, E., Zhu, L., Pastorelli, C., & Caprara, G. V. Measuring prosocial behaviors: Psychometric properties and cross-national validation of the Prosociality Scale in five countries. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021.