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Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) Test

Understand how often you tend to help others in just 3 minutes. With 13 quick items, it offers a clear snapshot of real-world kindness for screening or research.

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Questions: 133 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

38/65

Altruism (A)

Measures how frequently a person reports engaging in altruistic, prosocial helping behaviors across everyday situations.

Lower helping tendency

Moderate helping tendency

Higher helping tendency

13 – 30: Lower helping tendency | 31 – 47: Moderate helping tendency | 48 – 65: Higher helping tendency

A score of 38 falls in the Moderate helping tendency range, suggesting an average frequency of selfless helping behaviors compared with the scale’s full range.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Volunteers and helpers

41%OF USERS

People involved in volunteering or community support take it to see how often they actually help in real-life situations.

Psychology and social work students

34%OF USERS

Students use it for quick self-checks and coursework to compare altruism with other traits and behaviors.

Self-reflection seekers

25%OF USERS

People curious about their personality take it to understand whether they tend to be selfless or selective in helping others.

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.

Altruism Scale (AS)

Average

36.6

Normal range

29.7 — 43.6

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Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

You may have encountered situations in which you provided help to other people. Please indicate how often you did so voluntarily, for example, during the past year.

- Never
- Once
- Rarely
- More than once
- Many times
- Never
- Once
- Occasionally
- Several times
- Many times
- Never
- Once
- Rarely
- More than once
- Many times

These are 3 of the 13 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

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Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) Test - Symptoms and Signs

altruism

This measure assesses the frequency of everyday helping behaviors as reported by the respondent. The Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) is a brief self-report instrument intended to index altruistic tendencies through retrospective ratings of common prosocial acts.

The instrument contains 13 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Items ask respondents to indicate how often they have engaged in specific helping behaviors, supporting use in research and clinical contexts where a concise estimate of prosocial behavior is needed. The Self-Report Altruism Scale (SRA) is attributed to Daniel Batson.

Author: Daniel Batson

Literature: Batson, C. D. Altruism in humans. Oxford University Press. 2011.; Rushton, J. P., Chrisjohn, R. D., & Fekken, G. C. The altruistic personality and the self-report altruism scale. Personality and Individual Differences. 1981.