Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS) Test

People exploring identification with humanity may find this assessment useful when they want to understand how belonging extends from familiar relationships to a wider human community. It is suitable for self-reflection on identity, loyalty, responsibility, and concern for people beyond one’s immediate circle. The Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS) Test turns these themes into a profile across three social levels.

What This Assessment Explores

Items examine belonging at three levels: close relationships, the national group, and humanity as a whole. They ask about closeness, commonality, identification, distress, responsibility, loyalty, commitment, and help. Their pattern shows the breadth of concern and self-definition.

People reflecting on social identity, civic attachment, and humanitarian concern can use this profile. Higher humanity-wide identification suggests stronger commonality across differences; middle scores suggest balance, and lower scores a narrower orientation.

The displayed scales are:

• The Russians scale (9-45) measures national identification; higher scores show stronger belonging to fellow citizens: Low identification 9-21; Moderate identification 22-33; High identification 34-45.
• Close Social Circle (9-45) measures identification with family, friends, and colleagues; higher scores show stronger attachment: Low identification 9-21; Moderate identification 22-33; High identification 34-45.
• Identification With All Humanity Scale (9-45) measures connection with humanity: Low identification 9-17; Moderate identification 18-33; High identification 34-45.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each social level uses nine parallel prompts with five ordered verbal response options covering closeness, feeling, or willingness. The output displays three 9-45 score ranges, one for each level, so the result can be read as a comparative profile.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with McFarland and colleagues’ Identification With All Humanity Scale, which treats identification as a psychological and moral connection involving belonging, concern, responsibility, and readiness to help. McFarland, Brown, and Webb further framed the construct, while Hamer and colleagues’ five-country study examined factorial structure and measurement invariance. This online questionnaire is a self-report version whose displayed bands are descriptive and do not establish the published instrument’s population norms.

This tool helps readers compare the breadth of social identification and reflect on tensions between local, national, and global identity. Results may shift with current events, relationships, mood, and self-presentation. Read the three scores as a comparative profile: they show whether connection is concentrated in close relationships, extends strongly to national belonging, or reaches broadly toward humanity.