Tolerance–Intolerance Scale Test

People who want to understand their reactions to disagreement, criticism, and social difference may take the Tolerance-Intolerance Scale Test. It highlights whether respect and self-control remain available when another person’s opinions, conduct, language, background, or values feel difficult to accept. The resulting tolerance profile can help organize observations about conflict, boundaries, and everyday interaction.

What This Assessment Measures

The items examine acceptance of difference and reactions to disagreement, criticism, deception, cultural or national difference, and conflict. They also address rights, remorse after rudeness, and calm communication when another person insists on personal values. This focus on reactions to difference makes the intolerance scale useful to readers considering communication patterns, boundaries, and openness.

The assessment reports two dimensions:

• Intolerance (-16-16) measures difficulty accepting others’ differing views, behaviors, or personal characteristics; Low intolerance (-16-0) and Elevated intolerance (1-16) are the displayed bands.
• Tolerance (-16-16) measures an emotional disposition toward patience and respect for disliked views or qualities, with resilience to unacceptable or manipulative influence; Lower tolerance (-16--1), Balanced (0-0), and Higher tolerance (1-16) are the displayed bands.

These dimensions are reported separately, and each score is read against its own displayed bands; they can coexist.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each statement uses a five-point agreement response, from complete or strong agreement to complete or strong disagreement, with a middle option for uncertainty. The mix of constructive and uncomfortable statements means response numbers alone do not show how items are keyed; the questionnaire presents two displayed scores, while answer labels alone do not establish how points are assigned.

This tolerance questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the INTOL measure described in Pochebut’s 2005 work, Pochebut’s 2012 framework, and Pochebut and Beznosov’s 2017 discussion of assertiveness and tolerance; it is not presented as an adaptation of those publications. Together, these sources support reading respect for difference, boundary protection, self-control, and conflict potential as related aspects of interpersonal tolerance.

The displayed bands are this questionnaire’s result labels, not universal norms or clinical cutoffs. Honest answers matter, yet self-report can shift with current mood, self-image, social desirability, and the particular relationships or incidents recalled. Read the profile as a prompt for comparing scores with concrete experiences across situations.