Fey Acceptance of Others Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Almost always true
- Usually true
- True about half the time
- Sometimes true
- Very rarely true
- Almost always true
- Usually true
- True about half the time
- Sometimes true
- Very rarely true
- Almost always true
- Usually true
- True about half the time
- Sometimes true
- Very rarely true
Fey Acceptance of Others Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
People deciding whether to explore their interpersonal responses may find the Fey Acceptance of Others Scale Test useful as a structured self-report exercise. This acceptance of others questionnaire offers a comparison between your attitude toward other people and your perception of how they receive you, helping you identify areas for personal reflection. It is suited to anyone seeking a clearer picture of interpersonal patterns.
What This Assessment Explores
Two directions of acceptance are examined: attitudes toward other people and perceived acceptance by them. Items address trust, criticism, honesty, conformity, comfort with difference, loneliness, rejection, respect, and liking. The first scale connects social judgments with your perception of how others receive you; the second reflects perceived acceptance, which may differ from others’ attitudes.
The result can prompt reflection on social adjustment and an open, guarded, critical, or exclusion-sensitive outlook. The displayed scales and a non-scored theme are:
- Acceptance of Others (5-25) assesses acceptance of other people: 5-12 Lower acceptance, 13-18 Moderate acceptance, and 19-25 Higher acceptance.
- Acceptance of Others (20-100) reflects perceived acceptance by others: 20-56 Lower perceived acceptance and 57-100 Higher perceived acceptance.
- Social attitudes and adjustment describe judgments about people and responses to difference, criticism, respect, or rejection; they are not separately scored.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each statement uses five ordered response options, from “Almost always true” to “Very rarely true.” The wording asks about typical views and experiences, so answers should reflect your usual perspective rather than an isolated incident. The online version presents two totals, but the contribution of individual responses is not specified.
Fey’s 1955 Acceptance of Others Scale, the 1962 replication by Williams, and Williams and Lynn’s review support treating acceptance of others and perceived acceptance as related but distinct. This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that literature rather than a direct adaptation of its procedures, and the studies do not establish its online scoring rules.
This online acceptance questionnaire has no documented standardization or normative basis, so its displayed bands are descriptive categories rather than validated clinical cutoffs. Interpret the result as a self-reported snapshot shaped by mood, current relationships, recent rejection, self-awareness, and favorable self-presentation; higher perceived acceptance does not prove that other people actually like or accept you.
- Fey, William F. (1955). Acceptance by others and its relation to acceptance of self and others: A revaluation. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 50(2), 274-276. 10.1037/h0046876
- Fey, William F. (1954). Acceptance of self and others, and its relation to therapy-readiness. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 10(3), 269-271. 10.1002/1097-4679(195407)10:3<269::AID-JCLP2270100318>3.0.CO;2-E
- Williams, John E. (1962). Acceptance by others and its relationship to acceptance of self and others: A repeat of Fey's study. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 65(6), 438-442. 10.1037/h0048387
- Williams, John C., and Steven Jay Lynn (2010). Acceptance: An Historical and Conceptual Review. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 30(1), 5-56. 10.2190/IC.30.1.c
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