Help Motivation Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Example Questions From the Test
- Yes, this is true
- Probably so
- This is more true than false
- It is hard for me to answer definitively
- This is more false than true
- Probably not
- No, this is not true
- Yes, true
- Probably true
- More true than not true
- Hard to say for sure
- More not true than true
- Probably not true
- No, not true
- Yes, this is true
- Probably true
- This is more true than not true
- I find it difficult to give a definite answer
- This is more not true than true
- Probably not true
- No, this is not true
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Help Motivation Scale Test - Symptoms and Signs
This brief self-report measure is intended to assess situational reasons for helping behavior among adolescents and young adults. The Help Motivation Scale provides a structured way to characterize the respondent’s immediate motivational orientation toward supporting others in a specific context.
The instrument consists of 12 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Items ask respondents to endorse statements reflecting potential drivers of helping (e.g., internal values, perceived social expectations, or desire for affiliation/recognition), allowing clinicians or researchers to summarize relative motivational emphasis. The Help Motivation Scale is attributed to C. Daniel Batson and may be used as a screening or descriptive tool in school, community, or research settings to inform case conceptualization, group programming, or evaluation of engagement, while interpreting results in conjunction with collateral information and clinical judgment.