Tolerance Attitudes 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
- Irritation
- mistrust
- Interest
- respect
- nothing special
- It depends on the nationality
- No, never
- Yes, but I would not use this as an argument in a dispute
- Yes, and I would use this as an argument in a dispute
- yes, I was personally the one who initiated it
- Yes, the group I belong to initiated the conflict
- Yes, the other side initiated the conflict
- No, I have not been involved
Tolerance Attitudes Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who want to examine their views of nationality, cultural difference, and inclusion can use this tolerance attitudes questionnaire as a structured self-reflection exercise. The Tolerance Attitudes Scale Test turns responses about contact, family life, education, migration, military service, and everyday interaction into a composite indication of the respondent’s position on the tolerance-intolerance continuum. It is intended for readers who want to notice patterns in their own perceptions and use the composite result to reflect on their position along that continuum.
What This Assessment Measures
By presenting situations involving national and cultural difference, the questionnaire functions as an interethnic tolerance test. It covers identity, marriage, minority celebrations, ethnic schools, migration, military service, nationality-based restrictions, conflict, and reactions to a classmate who speaks with an accent.
The result describes a position along the tolerance-intolerance continuum, not a judgment about a person’s worth. The displayed Total Composite Index ranges from -4-4, with negative values indicating more tolerant attitudes and positive values indicating more intolerant attitudes. Visitors see More tolerant (-4--0.01), Neutral/mixed (0-0), or More intolerant (0.01-4).
The situations can be read through three connected areas:
- National identity and close relationships show how belonging and family expectations shape openness to cross-national contact.
- Social contact captures emotional reactions, trust, respect, indifference, and willingness to support people from other backgrounds.
- Civic and institutional views reveal responses to schools, migration, restrictions, conflict, and shared public life.
Methodology and Evidence Base
Each prompt offers verbal response options rather than a numerical agreement scale. Choices distinguish approval, discomfort, indifference, attribution, or willingness to intervene, linking the score to concrete social situations. Respondents do not calculate points manually.
Scoring is presented as one composite direction: responses are aggregated into the displayed index, with the sign showing a tolerant-intolerant tendency. Exact point values for individual choices are not stated in the visitor-facing format, so answer weights should not be inferred beyond the questionnaire’s reported result.
Its closest published reference is the Interethnic Tolerance Scale (Sobkin & Adamchuk, 2006). Sobkin, Nikolashina, and Adamchuk (2007) report applications of a related interethnic tolerance measure in socio-psychological research. The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that work, particularly in its focus on attitudes toward people of other nationalities and cultures.
This questionnaire is a structured online self-report in which respondents choose verbal options for concrete social situations. Current experiences, social context, self-awareness, and self-presentation can influence responses. The result is therefore best used as a snapshot for reflection, not as a diagnosis or universal norm.
- Sobkin, V. S., & Adamchuk, D. V. (2006). Measuring Tolerant Attitudes in the Sphere of Interethnic Relations. Bulletin of Practical Psychology of Education, 3(2), 26-35.
- Sobkin, V. S., & Adamchuk, D. V. (2006). Measuring Tolerant Attitudes in the Sphere of Interethnic Relations (Conclusion). Bulletin of Practical Psychology of Education, 3(3), 48-60.
- Sobkin, V. S., Nikolashina, E. V., & Adamchuk, D. V. (2007). Experience of Using the Interethnic Tolerance Scale in Socio-Psychological Research. Bulletin of Practical Psychology of Education, 4(2), 14-21.
- Tikhomirova, E. L., & Shadrova, E. V. (2020). Developing Interethnic Tolerance of Social Work Students by Non-Violent Communication. In S. Alexander Glebovich (Ed.), Pedagogical Education - History, Present Time, Perspectives, Vol. 87, 476-483. European Publisher. 10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.02.62
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