Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) Test

People who want to understand their everyday helping patterns can use the Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) Test as a structured self-reflection exercise. The altruism questionnaire is intended for readers curious about how their actions toward strangers, acquaintances, colleagues, and charitable causes vary across ordinary situations. Its score records reported helping frequency across those situations, including giving, practical assistance, and everyday courtesies.

What This Assessment Explores

The assessment covers reported actions involving money, goods, time, attention, and practical assistance. Small courtesies are included too, so the result combines deliberate giving with everyday opportunities to help. The questionnaire assesses reported helping behavior across situations, describing a broad pattern without inferring the motive behind one act. The main areas are:

• Charitable giving shows how often the respondent donates money, goods, or blood.
• Direct assistance reflects practical help offered to strangers.
• Courtesy captures yielding a place, holding an elevator, or giving up a seat.
• Social support indicates help for acquaintances or colleagues.

The Altruism scale ranges from 13-65. It measures altruistic behavior across situations; higher scores indicate a stronger propensity to help without expecting personal gain. Results are Lower helping tendency (13-30), Moderate helping tendency (31-47), or Higher helping tendency (48-65).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement asks how often a behavior occurred, using five ordered choices from Never to Many times. Intermediate wording varies, including Once, Rarely, Occasionally, Several times, or Repeatedly, but responses remain frequency-based. The displayed result summarizes reported assistance; higher scores indicate more frequently reported helping.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the published Self-Report Altruism Scale, a self-report measure of altruism, but it is not presented as that instrument's documented full version or as a verified adaptation. Chou's Chinese translation and Manzur and Olavarrieta's separate nine-item simplification represent related versions, not evidence that this online questionnaire uses their items or scoring. Results should therefore be compared only at the level of the shared construct.

The three bands are the result categories displayed for this questionnaire, providing an accessible interpretation of the score. Self-report answers can be shaped by memory, social desirability, current opportunities to help, and how the respondent understands each situation. Read the result as an estimate of reported prosocial activity and a prompt to consider patterns across contexts, rather than as a complete account of altruistic motivation or behavior.