Altruistic Attitudes Scale Test

People who want to understand their orientation toward helping can use the Altruistic Attitudes Scale Test as a structured self-report exercise. It is intended for readers reflecting on volunteering, responses to suffering, and motives that may or may not depend on personal benefit. As an altruistic attitudes questionnaire, it produces a profile of helping-related tendencies rather than a single description of personality.

What This Assessment Measures

These items examine altruism through judgments, intentions, and likely responses to other people's needs. They address helping someone in pain or danger, volunteering, pleasure in assisting, concern with payment or reciprocity, trust in others' support, and reactions to suffering. The result reflects an orientation toward selfless assistance while showing whether socially desirable responding may affect interpretation. In this altruism assessment, the displayed dimensions are:

• Lie Scale (0-30) assesses response validity and socially desirable answers; Low social desirability (0-18) suggests greater honesty, while Elevated social desirability (19-30) signals a stronger favorable self-presentation tendency.
• Altruism Level (20-108): Higher scores indicate stronger altruistic attitudes, a greater tendency to help without personal gain, and more active involvement when others need support; Low (20-57), Moderate (58-68), and High (69-108) are the displayed bands.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each statement uses a seven-point response format that moves from strong rejection through uncertainty to strong endorsement. Items cover direct helping as well as motives involving payment, reciprocity, volunteering, and personal benefit. Responses are combined into the displayed scores, but item weights, reverse-keying, and norm-based conversion are not specified for this online form. The ranges are therefore the questionnaire's reporting framework, not universal clinical cutoffs.

Yasin's 2020 study of altruistic attitudes is conceptually consistent with this questionnaire, not evidence of a standardized adaptation. The questionnaire's construct is also conceptually consistent with Batson and Shaw's distinction between altruistic and other prosocial motives and with Batson's social-psychological analysis of altruism. As a self-report of altruistic attitudes and helping intentions, it captures reported tendencies, not observed conduct. This is a conceptual relationship, not evidence that the online form is a standardized adaptation of those published works.

Current mood, recent experiences, self-awareness, and the wish to appear caring can influence self-report. The result is best used to organize reflection on helping patterns; it is not a diagnosis or a substitute for broader assessment.