Religious Activity Assessment Test

With 69 questions and an estimated completion time of 13 minutes, the Religious Activity Assessment Test explores religious behaviors, worldviews, motivations, and personal spiritual experiences. Your results offer a structured profile of religious activity, supporting thoughtful self-reflection about how faith, transcendence, and practice feature in your life.

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How the Scales are Structured

Religious BehaviorsRB

Measures how regularly and consciously a person engages in religious practices such as rituals, adherence to principles, and turning to God.

example score6/10

6/10Moderate practiceexample score

0 – 3Low practice

4 – 7Moderate practice

8 – 10High practice

A score of 6 indicates a moderate level of religious practice, suggesting periodic participation and adherence that may vary by context or life circumstances.

Religious vs. Natural Science WorldviewRvNSW

Measures whether a person’s worldview is predominantly religious (theistic) versus natural-scientific, including how literally religious symbols are perceived.

example score5/10

5/10Mixed / balancedexample score

0 – 4Natural-scientific lean

5 – 7Mixed / balanced

8 – 10Religious (theistic) lean

A score of 5 suggests a mixed worldview in which religious meanings may be important while a natural-scientific understanding remains influential.

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation ScaleIaERMS

Measures whether a person’s religiosity is driven more by internal personal meaning and self-actualization or by external social and situational reasons.

example score4/10

4/10Mixed motivationexample score

0 – 3External-leaning

4 – 7Mixed motivation

8 – 10Internal-leaning

A score of 4 indicates mixed religious motivation, where personal meaning is present but external or situational factors still play a noticeable role.

Prereligious ExperiencesPE

Measures the frequency and intensity of transcendent-oriented experiences not centered on Theos, such as harmony with nature or altered states of consciousness.

example score8/10

8/10Highexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 7Moderate

8 – 10High

A score of 8 indicates a high level of pre-religious experiences, suggesting these transcendent states are a prominent part of your lived experience.

SthenicS

Measures the intensity of energizing, uplifting religious experiences marked by strength, inspiration, and rapture.

example score8/10

8/10Highexample score

0 – 4Low

5 – 7Moderate

8 – 10High

A score of 8 falls in the High range, suggesting religious experiences are often accompanied by pronounced feelings of energy, inspiration, and uplift.

Asthenic ExperiencesAE

Measures the intensity of asthenic religious experiences such as feelings of weakness, imperfection, guilt, and shame before the Divine.

example score2/10

2/10Lowexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 7Moderate

8 – 10High

A score of 2 indicates low asthenic religious experiences, with relatively infrequent or mild feelings of guilt, shame, or spiritual inadequacy.

Overall Religious ExperienceORE

Measures the breadth and richness of a person’s religious experiences, integrating asthenic, sthenic, and pre-religious components.

example score5/10

5/10Moderateexample score

0 – 4Limited

5 – 7Moderate

8 – 10Diverse

A score of 5 suggests a moderate variety of religious experiences, indicating some subjective engagement with transcendent meanings without a highly diverse experiential profile.

Religious Activity ScaleRAS

Measures the overall level of personal religiosity development by integrating internal experience, motivation, and religious practices.

example score4/10

4/10Moderateexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 7Moderate

8 – 10High

A score of 4 indicates a moderate overall level of religiosity, suggesting some stable religious involvement and meaning without strong, pervasive expression across all areas.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Practicing believers

41%OF USERS

People who actively participate in prayers, services, or rituals and want a clearer picture of their inner motivations and lived faith.

Counseling and clergy support seekers

34%OF USERS

Individuals exploring spiritual struggles, doubts, or value conflicts who need language to discuss their religiosity in counseling or pastoral guidance.

Researchers and students

25%OF USERS

Psychology, sociology, or religious-studies learners and professionals who need a structured way to assess religious activity for studies or assessments.

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

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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Religious Practices ScaleRPS

You?

Average6.9

Typical rangeTypical5.3 – 8.6

Possible0 – 10

Scale of Religious/Natural-Scientific WorldviewSoRW

You?

Average3.6

Typical rangeTypical1.7 – 5.5

Possible0 – 10

Scale of Internal/External Religious MotivationSoIRM

You?

Average6.4

Typical rangeTypical4.8 – 7.9

Possible0 – 10

Pre-religiousP

You?

Average6.3

Typical rangeTypical5.1 – 7.5

Possible0 – 10

SthenicS

You?

Average3.2

Typical rangeTypical1.7 – 4.7

Possible0 – 10

AsthenicA

You?

Average4.2

Typical rangeTypical2.8 – 5.5

Possible0 – 10

Overall Indicator of Religious ExperiencesOIoRE

You?

Average3.4

Typical rangeTypical2 – 4.8

Possible0 – 10

Religious Activity ScaleRAS

You?

Average5.8

Typical rangeTypical4.4 – 7.3

Possible0 – 10

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

The questionnaire consists of three parts. Part 1. Below is a list of states that people may experience. For each state, compare it with your own experience and select the response that best reflects how often you have experienced it. Part 2. For each statement in the list, select the response option that is most appropriate for you: option “A” or option “B.” Part 3. Below is a list of questions, each with four response options (A, B, C, D). Select the option that is most appropriate for you.

- Never
- Once (one time)
- Sometimes
- Very often
- Never
- Once (one time)
- Sometimes
- Very often
- Never
- Once (one time)
- Sometimes
- Very often

These are 3 of the 69 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Religious Activity Assessment Test - Description and methodology of the test

religiosity

For people examining how faith operates in daily life, this assessment offers a structured way to reflect on practice, conviction, motivation, and spiritual experience. The Religious Activity Assessment Test is useful for respondents curious about their relationship with worship, divine belief, transcendence, or scientific explanations. A religious activity questionnaire can reveal how these aspects coexist without reducing the result to one label.

What This Assessment Measures

Religious behavior assessment maps faith.

Dimensions:

Religious Behaviors (0-10) measures practice: Low practice (0-3), Moderate practice (4-7), High practice (8-10); Religious vs. Natural Science Worldview (0-10) shows worldview: Natural-scientific lean (0-4), Mixed / balanced (5-7), Religious (theistic) lean (8-10); Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (0-10): External-leaning (0-3), Mixed motivation (4-7), Internal-leaning (8-10).
Prereligious Experiences (0-10) measures transcendence: Low (0-3), Moderate (4-7), High (8-10); Sthenic (0-10): Low (0-4), Moderate (5-7), High (8-10).
Asthenic Experiences (0-10) measures guilt and shame: Low (0-3), Moderate (4-7), High (8-10); Overall Religious Experience (0-10) summarizes experience: Limited (0-4), Moderate (5-7), Diverse (8-10); Religious Activity Scale (0-10) summarizes religiosity: Low (0-3), Moderate (4-7), High (8-10).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Responses use frequency choices from Never to Very often, paired A/B statements with graded preference, and ordered behavior options such as Regularly, Irregularly, Sometimes, and Never. A religious experience questionnaire covers both recurring conduct and personal interpretations of belief.

Scores combine component and composite results on 0-10 scales. Because no response-by-response point key is stated, the profile should be read as the calculated result rather than reconstructed manually.

Conceptually, the questionnaire is consistent with Methods of Investigation of Religious Activity (MIRA), the standardized psychometric methodology described by D. O. Smirnov in 1999, but it is not an adaptation of that method. Smirnov’s 2001 work examines religious activity within integral individuality, while Koteneva, Berezina, and Rybtsov’s 2021 study examines related religiosity and spirituality indicators. These sources situate the constructs but do not validate this online version.

Interpretation is personal and contextual. Memory, social desirability, self-awareness, and current circumstances can affect self-report, and the standardized source method does not automatically provide norms for this questionnaire. Treat the profile as a description of tendencies, not a clinical classification.

Author: Kenneth I. Pargament

Literature:

Smirnov, D. O. (1999). Description of Procedure of the Psychometric Methodology “Questionnaire of Religious Activity” Standardization. Scientific Psychological Journal, 1-2, 159-172.
Smirnov, D. O. (2001). Religious Activity in the Structure of Integral Individuality. Extended abstract of a candidate dissertation in psychology, Perm State Pedagogical University, Perm, 20 pp.
Koteneva, A. V., Berezina, T. N., & Rybtsov, S. A. (2021). Religiosity, Spirituality and Biopsychological Age of Professionals in Russia. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(4), 1221-1238. 10.3390/ejihpe11040089

Updated: 2025-10-02