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Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) Test

Understand how strongly someone identifies with moral values and lives them out in 3 minutes. Get fast, clear insights for research, training, or coaching with minimal burden.

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Questions: 163 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

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42/60

Moral Integrity (MI)

Measures how strongly a person tends to act in line with moral values and maintain consistent moral behavior across public and private situations.

Lower integrity

Moderate integrity

Higher integrity

10 – 26: Lower integrity | 27 – 43: Moderate integrity | 44 – 60: Higher integrity

A score of 42 falls in the Moderate integrity range, suggesting a generally consistent tendency to follow moral norms with some variability across situations.

example score

23/36

Moral Self (MS)

Measures how strongly a person identifies with moral values as a core part of their self-concept and attends to ethical aspects of situations.

Low

Moderate

High

6 – 16: Low | 17 – 26: Moderate | 27 – 36: High

A score of 23 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting moral values are a meaningful part of identity with a typical (but not consistently strong) sensitivity to ethical considerations.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Students in helping professions

41%OF USERS

People studying psychology, education, medicine, or social work use it to see how strongly their moral values shape their identity and everyday choices.

Researchers and graduate students

34%OF USERS

They take it as part of studies on ethics, prosocial behavior, integrity, and how values translate into real actions.

Leadership and ethics trainees

25%OF USERS

Managers, team leads, and people in ethics trainings use it to reflect on moral consistency and whether their decisions match their principles.

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

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Moral Integrity (MI)

Average

28.2

Normal range

21.3 — 35.2

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Moral Self (MS)

Average

24.9

Normal range

20.7 — 29.1

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Strongly agree

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

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Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) Test - Symptoms and Signs

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moral

This self-report measure assesses the centrality of moral traits and values to a person’s self-concept and their perceived relevance to everyday behavior. The Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) provides a brief, structured approach to evaluating moral identity in research or clinical contexts. It includes 16 items and typically requires about 3 minutes to complete.

Items are commonly interpreted across two related dimensions: the degree to which individuals experience moral characteristics as important to who they are, and the extent to which they endorse aligning actions with internal moral standards. The Moral Identity Questionnaire (MIQ) was developed by A. P. Aquino and A. Reed II and is intended for use as a screening-level assessment of self-perceived moral identity rather than a diagnostic instrument.

Author: A. P. Aquino, A. Reed II

Literature: Aquino, K., & Reed, A., II. The self-importance of moral identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2002.