ISADA Method Test

With 60 yes-or-no questions and an estimated completion time of 11 minutes, the ISADA Method Test explores tendencies linked to deviant or maladaptive behaviour and resistance to them. Your result places this pattern in a low, moderate, or high risk range, offering a structured starting point for self-reflection and understanding your behavioural profile.

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ISADA MethodIM

Measures the individual’s tendency toward deviant, risky, and rule-breaking behavior and their resilience to such patterns in a service context.

example score70/100

70/100High riskexample score

0 – 33Low risk

34 – 66Moderate risk

67 – 100High risk

A score of 70 falls in the High risk range, indicating a higher likelihood of rule-breaking or deviant behavioral tendencies under stress or situational pressure.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Conscription Screening Staff

41%OF USERS

Officers and psychologists use it during intake to quickly flag recruits who may be prone to risky, rule-breaking behavior.

Unit Command and NCOs

34%OF USERS

Leaders apply it to identify early warning signs of discipline issues and decide who needs closer supervision or support.

Military Psychologists

25%OF USERS

Specialists use it for periodic monitoring to track shifts in aggression, irresponsibility, and other risk factors over time.

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

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ISADA MethodologyIM

You?

Average49.7

Typical rangeTypical32.4 – 66.9

Possible0 – 100

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No

These are 3 of the 60 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

ISADA Method Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to examine patterns linked with behavioural dysregulation can use this ISADA questionnaire to consider reactions, impulses, adversity, and conduct that may increase vulnerability to maladaptive behaviour. The ISADA Method Test gives a result for this pattern, while leaving a person’s history, motives, circumstances, and answer context essential to interpretation.

What This Assessment Explores

The ISADA method questionnaire measures propensity for deviant behaviour and resistance to maladaptive behaviour, with military applications. Questions cover pressure, anger, urges, risky conduct, hopelessness, family adversity, and attitudes toward self-destructive or antisocial behaviour. These topics invite reflection; they do not confirm events.

The questionnaire produces one scale: ISADA Method, 0-100. It shows Low risk 0-33, Moderate risk 34-66, or High risk 67-100. The result summarizes a risk range, not a diagnosis or complete personality account.

Sampled questions highlight themes, not official subscales or a complete instrument map:

Aggression and irritability show how conflict, insult, or provocation may shape reactions.
Impulse control and risk-taking indicate the prominence of urges, gambling, or sensation-seeking.
Despair-related attitudes capture responses to betrayal, hopelessness, and life’s perceived value.
Deviant conduct and adversity provide context for rule-breaking patterns without determining the result.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item is a brief statement answered Yes or No. The themes include interpersonal provocation, beliefs about life and death, family history, and everyday conduct. This binary format asks for the option that most closely fits the statement and the respondent’s experience, without space to explain exceptions.

Scoring converts the response pattern into the displayed scale and its risk band; the format does not support inferring how many points any single answer contributes. Interpretation is relative to this questionnaire’s scoring system, not a probability estimate. Current mood, stress, social setting, memory, and impression management can affect self-report.

In methodological terms, the ISADA methodology is conceptually consistent with work by Dnov and Baurova, which describes an approach for identifying forms of deviant behaviour in military personnel. A later study by Kukhtalev and colleagues evaluated psychometric qualities of methods for detecting such signs in that population. These studies provide research context, but they do not establish identical wording, norms, reliability, or validity for this digital questionnaire. Results are therefore best used to focus reflection on the answers and circumstances behind the band.

Author: Albert Bandura, Edwin A. Locke

Literature:

Dnov K.V., Baurova N.N. Development and approbation of psychodiagnostic methods for identifying military personnel prone to avoidant, suicidal, aggressive, delinquent and addictive behavior (ISADA). Psychology and Psychotechnics. 2016;(11):949-959. In Russian.
Kukhtalev V.V., Dorofeev I.I., Yusupov V.V., Golovko K.P., Shibaeva A.G. Evaluation of the psychometric qualities of methods for identifying signs of deviant behavior in military personnel. Russian Military Medical Academy Reports. 2023;42(1):5-13. In Russian. 10.17816/rmmar112280

Updated: 2025-10-02