Am I a Bad Person Quiz

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
Am I a Bad Person Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
After a difficult interaction, a broken promise, or feedback that lingers, the Am I a Bad Person Quiz gives people a structured way to examine their part. It suits anyone unsettled by their effect on others, including those framing the concern as an Am I a Good Person Quiz. The result organizes that concern around accountability, empathy, and integrity.
What This Assessment Explores
The questionnaire treats moral character as patterns in conduct when other people may be affected. This bad person self-assessment focuses on repair after harm, sensitivity to others, and consistency between values and actions, making it useful for anyone examining everyday behavior rather than seeking a single permanent label.
The three displayed dimensions are:
- Accountability & Repair (0-30) reflects owning harm and changing behavior: Avoidant/Defensive (0-14), Developing Repair Skills (15-22), Accountable & Repair-Oriented (23-30).
- Empathy & Consideration (0-30) reflects noticing feelings and considering impact: Less consistent empathy (0-14), Developing empathy (15-22), Strong empathy (23-30).
- Integrity & Honesty (0-30) reflects truthful, fair, dependable conduct: Inconsistent integrity (0-10), Mixed integrity (11-20), Strong integrity (21-30).
Methodology and Evidence Base
The sampled statements use four response choices-Strongly disagree, Disagree, Not sure, or Agree-and illustrate themes such as promises, apologies, pressure, honesty, noticing discomfort, and responses. This makes the result a reflection of reported tendencies rather than observed behavior.
Results are reported on the three displayed dimensions and assigned to their listed bands. The questionnaire does not document point assignment or the calculation method, so the ranges should not be reverse-engineered into a scoring rule.
Its construct map is conceptually consistent with Moral Character Questionnaire (Furr et al., 2022), which treats moral character through behavioral tendencies. Accountability also aligns with Witvliet et al. (2023), while Ashton and Lee’s (2007) HEXACO framework adds context for honesty and interpersonal conduct. These sources support the themes but do not establish this questionnaire as a standardized adaptation.
When uncertainty about one's character or behavior lingers, framing the exercise as an Are You a Good Person Quiz can focus attention on which habits are reliable and which need practice. Self-report results can shift with context, self-awareness, memory, and impression management, so the bands are interpretive labels rather than clinical cutoffs or population norms.
- Furr, R. Michael, Mike Prentice, Ashley Hawkins Parham, and Eranda Jayawickreme. (2022). Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 98, 104228. 10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104228
- Witvliet, Charlotte V.O., Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, C. Stephen Evans, Jack W. Berry, Joseph Leman, Robert C. Roberts, John Peteet, Andrew B. Torrance, and Ashley N. Hayden. (2023). Accountability: Construct definition and measurement of a virtue vital to flourishing. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 18(5), 660-673. 10.1080/17439760.2022.2109203
- Ashton, Michael C., and Kibeom Lee. (2007). Empirical, theoretical, and practical advantages of the HEXACO model of personality structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11(2), 150-166. 10.1177/1088868306294907
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