Global Identity 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
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
Global Identity Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
People curious about how they relate to humanity beyond national or cultural boundaries can use the Global Identity Scale Test as a structured reflection. This global identity assessment is intended for anyone exploring the balance between local belonging and a wider sense of connection. It highlights beliefs and feelings that shape a personal profile without reducing identity to one label.
What This Assessment Explores
The statements examine whether a person experiences humanity as an interconnected community rather than treating national or cultural membership as the only meaningful group. They address personal influence across borders, perceived similarity between countries, emotional closeness, and a shared human future. As a global belonging test, the result describes an orientation rather than a fixed identity category.
The questionnaire reports one displayed scale, while the statements explore these related themes:
- Global Identity (1–6) measures global belonging: Low 1–1.9 indicates a mainly local or national orientation; Moderate 2–4.1 indicates a balance between local and global identity; High 4.2–6 indicates stronger unity with humanity as a whole.
- Global connectedness and interdependence show whether people worldwide feel close and whether personal actions are seen as affecting lives elsewhere.
- World-citizen orientation reflects cross-cultural similarity and inclusion of humanity beyond borders in the self-concept.
Methodology and Evidence Base
The questionnaire uses a self-report, Likert-style format. Each statement offers six ordered response options, generally ranging from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree; one item uses Completely agree at its highest point. This global identity survey records degree of endorsement rather than a choice between competing descriptions.
Conceptually, it is consistent with the Global-Human Identity Scale (Der-Karabetian & Ruiz, 1997), a close published reference for its global-human belonging themes. It is not presented as a reproduction or adaptation of that instrument. De Rivera and Carson (2015), together with Der-Karabetian, Cao, and Alfaro (2014), provide related discussion of global identity, world-mindedness, perceived globalization and interdependence, but do not establish psychometric properties for this form.
The questionnaire states no item weighting, reverse scoring, averaging, norms or clinical cutoffs; the result is therefore a descriptive indication of global orientation, not a standardized score.
Responses may shift with current circumstances, cultural experience, self-awareness and candidness. Broader conclusions require context about the person’s values, relationships and social environment.
- Der-Karabetian, A., & Ruiz, Y. (1997). Affective Bicultural and Global-Human Identity Scales for Mexican-American Adolescents. Psychological Reports, 80(3), 1027–1039. 10.2466/pr0.1997.80.3.1027
- de Rivera, J., & Carson, H. A. (2015). Cultivating a Global Identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(2), 310–330. 10.5964/jspp.v3i2.507
- Der-Karabetian, A., Cao, Y., & Alfaro, M. (2014). Sustainable Behavior, Perceived Globalization Impact, World-Mindedness, Identity, and Perceived Risk in College Samples from the United States, China, and Taiwan. Ecopsychology, 6(4), 218–233. 10.1089/eco.2014.0035
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