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Behavior Control Questionnaire Test

In five minutes, the Behavior Control Questionnaire Test uses 27 statements to explore how you manage actions, emotions, attention, and goals. Your result highlights patterns of self-regulation, helping you reflect on personal strengths and areas where greater awareness or deliberate strategies may support everyday decisions.

Questions: 275 minutes

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Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

Volitional ControlVC

Willpower Control measures the capacity to intentionally regulate actions, inhibit impulses, and stay aligned with goals despite obstacles.

example score14/45

14/45Lowexample score

9 – 24Low

25 – 37Moderate

38 – 45High

A score of 14 falls in the Low range, suggesting reduced volitional control with greater difficulty sustaining goal-directed behavior when facing distractions or resistance.

Emotional ControlEC

Emotional control measures how well a person regulates emotional states and expression, manages stress, and recognizes emotions in themselves and others.

example score16/45

16/45Lowexample score

9 – 26Low

27 – 37Moderate

38 – 45High

A score of 16 falls in the Low range, suggesting emotions and stress may be harder to regulate consistently, especially in demanding situations.

Cognitive ControlCC

Cognitive control measures how well a person analyzes, organizes, and structures information to plan and guide thinking and actions.

example score29/45

29/45Moderateexample score

9 – 24Low

25 – 36Moderate

37 – 45High

A score of 29 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting generally adequate planning and structuring of information with some variability across situations.

Overall Level of Behavioral ControlOLoBC

Measures the integrated strength of cognitive, emotional, and volitional self-regulation used to manage behavior across situations.

example score123/135

123/135Highexample score

27 – 77Low

78 – 107Moderate

108 – 135High

A score of 123 falls in the High range, indicating generally strong, well-integrated behavioral self-regulation across cognitive, emotional, and volitional domains.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Stressed working adults

41%OF USERS

People under constant deadlines take it to understand how stress affects their focus, emotions, and ability to follow through.

Students and exam takers

34%OF USERS

Students use it to spot weak points in planning, emotional balance, and persistence when studying and performing under pressure.

Therapy and coaching clients

25%OF USERS

People working on personal change take it to identify what blocks self-control and which skills to strengthen for daily situations.

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

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

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.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Willpower ControlWC

You?

Average27.9

Typical rangeTypical21.6 – 34.2

Possible9 – 45

Emotional controlEc

You?

Average21

Typical rangeTypical15.9 – 26

Possible9 – 45

Cognitive ControlCC

You?

Average23.1

Typical rangeTypical16.9 – 29.4

Possible9 – 45

Overall Level of Behavioral ControlOLoBC

You?

Average81.3

Typical rangeTypical63.1 – 99.6

Possible27 – 135

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Please indicate the extent to which each of the following statements describes you. Provide the first response that comes to mind. There are no right or wrong answers, as this is not a test of ability but an assessment of individual characteristics. Select the response option “Difficult to answer” only when you truly cannot agree or disagree with the statement to any degree.

- This is not at all like me
- This is more unlike me than like me
- Difficult to answer
- This is like me
- This describes me exactly
- This is not at all like me
- This is more not true of me than true of me
- Difficult to answer
- This is like me
- This is definitely true of me
- This does not describe me at all
- This describes me less than it describes me
- Difficult to answer
- This is like me
- This definitely describes me

These are 3 of the 27 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Behavior Control Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test

self-regulation

People who want to understand their self-regulation in everyday situations can use the Behavior Control Questionnaire Test for structured self-reflection. This behavioral control questionnaire is intended for readers considering how consistently they respond to demands, setbacks, and changing circumstances. The result helps identify patterns that may influence choices and relationships, giving the reader a clearer starting point for deliberate change.

What This Assessment Explores

For this behavior control assessment, self-regulation combines directing actions, managing feelings, and organizing experience. The questions cover planning, persistence, distractibility, emotional awareness, reactions to others, and adjustment to change.

The displayed result organizes the profile into four readings:

Volitional Control (9-45) measures goal-directed action, inhibition, planning, and persistence; Low 9-24, Moderate 25-37, High 38-45.
Emotional Control (9-45) measures emotional expression, mood regulation, stress coping, and awareness of own and others’ feelings; Low 9-26, Moderate 27-37, High 38-45.
Cognitive Control (9-45) measures intellectual and metacognitive abilities to analyze and organize information, construct mental models, and retrieve and structure mental experience; Low 9-24, Moderate 25-36, High 37-45.
Overall Level of Behavioral Control (27-135) measures integrated cognitive, emotional, and volitional self-regulation and managing behavior across situations; Low 27-77, Moderate 78-107, High 108-135.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Statements address goals, planning, mood, emotional awareness, attention, and persistence. Each uses five response options from "not at all like me" to "describes me exactly," with a middle choice for uncertainty.

The result also presents an overall level. Higher overall scores indicate stronger self-regulation skills and a greater ability to manage behavior across different situations.

Behavioral Control (Sergienko et al., 2023) provides the closest published model. It presents cognitive, emotional, and volitional regulation as an integrated system. This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that work, but it is not documented as an adaptation of the published instrument. The 2010 monograph and 2018 chapter develop the same framework. A study of 689 participants aged 18-79 reported internal-consistency and factor-analytic support for its three-part structure; those findings belong to the published work and do not establish norms for this 27-item online version.

Displayed bands are categories for this questionnaire, not norms from that study.

The self-regulation assessment relies on self-report, so current mood, self-awareness, and socially desirable responding can shift its result; read it alongside the person's context and other relevant information.

Author: Alan E. Kazdin

Literature:

Sergienko, E.A., Vilenskaya, G.A., and Vetrova, I.I. (2023). A New Method for Assessing Mental Regulation - the Questionnaire "Behavioral Control". Experimental Psychology (Russia), 16(1), 182-200. 10.17759/exppsy.2023160111
Sergienko, E.A., Vilenskaya, G.A., and Kovaleva, Yu.V. (2010). Behavior Control as Subjective Regulation. Moscow: Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergienko, E.A., and Vilenskaya, G.A. (2018). Behavior Control - an Integrative Concept of Mental Regulation. In A.L. Zhuravlev and E.A. Sergienko (Eds.), Development of Concepts of Modern Psychology, pp. 343-378. Moscow: Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Updated: 2025-10-02