Moscow Authenticity Scale (MAS) Test

People considering how they relate to their own direction may use the Moscow Authenticity Scale (MAS) Test for a broad reflection on personal experience. As an authenticity self-assessment, it suits readers who want to pause over whether their lives feel personally grounded and to receive an organized overall indication, without presenting a clinical judgment.

What This Assessment Explores

The test examines whether life feels internally guided and personally owned. Its items address self-acceptance, purpose, self-knowledge, life context, and ownership after mistakes. This makes the authenticity measure useful for considering whether beliefs and choices feel congruent.

These themes show what a reader may consider when interpreting the result:

• Self-acceptance shows how naturally you acknowledge yourself.
• Purpose shows whether you recognize and follow a direction.
• Self-knowledge shows how clearly you understand your inner experience.
• Life ownership shows whether your path still feels personally chosen.

Results appear on Authenticity, ranging from 0-25. Low authenticity is 0-14, Moderate authenticity is 15-21, and High authenticity is 22-25. The scale measures living in accordance with the self, personal values, and beliefs: higher scores indicate stronger authenticity, lower scores suggest external conformity or inconsistency, and middle scores indicate partial expression in behavior and self-experience.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item is a first-person statement answered on five ordered options, from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. The prompts place personal experience on an agreement continuum; there is no correct response. The questionnaire does not specify how individual response choices are converted into the displayed score or provide population norms; the bands therefore function as reporting categories rather than clinical thresholds.

Conceptually, this questionnaire is consistent with the published Moscow Authenticity Scale described by Reznichenko and colleagues in 2021, which treats authenticity as alignment with the self and personal values, and with Kernis and Goldman’s 2006 multicomponent model, which emphasizes self-knowledge, unbiased processing, behavior, and relational orientation. That connection is conceptual: the online authenticity test has no stated independent validation or standardization, so it is not established as the published instrument or a validated adaptation.

Because responses depend on self-awareness, honesty, and current circumstances, the result may shift with context. Its single score gives a broad overall indication rather than a detailed profile of separate components; comparing it with concrete experiences can show where authenticity feels stable or strained.