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Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Test

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For a focused six-minute reflection, the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Test presents 29 questions about bodily calm, compassion, social connection, and interpersonal safety. The result highlights how you experience security with others and can help you reflect on the conditions that support comfortable communication and connection.
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How the Scales are Structured

Bodily SensationsBS
Measures how aware you are of physical sensations that signal safety and internal calm or alertness.
example score3/5
3/5Low awarenessexample score
1 – 3.1Low awareness
3.2 – 5High awareness
A score of 3 suggests lower-range awareness of bodily safety signals, meaning physical cues of comfort or tension may be less distinct or harder to track in the moment.
CompassionC
Measures how readily you empathize with others and offer supportive, helping responses that can strengthen a sense of safety in groups.
example score3/5
3/5Lower compassionexample score
1 – 3.3Lower compassion
3.4 – 5Higher compassion
A score of 3 falls in the Lower compassion range, suggesting empathy and support for others are present but may not be consistently expressed across situations.
Social EngagementSE
Measures engagement in social interactions and openness to communication as an indicator of felt safety in social contexts.
example score3/5
3/5Low social activityexample score
1 – 3.2Low social activity
3.3 – 5Typical social activity
A score of 3 suggests lower social activity, indicating more limited engagement or openness in social situations relative to higher scores on this scale.
Psychological SafetyPS
Measures how safe, comfortable, and trusting a person feels within their current social environment.
example score3/5
3/5Low safetyexample score
1 – 3.2Low safety
3.3 – 5High safety
A score of 3 suggests a lower sense of psychological safety, with comfort and trust in social situations feeling limited or inconsistent.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Therapy and coaching clients
41%OF USERS
People exploring anxiety, stress, or relationship patterns use it to see how their body reads safety versus threat in everyday situations.
Team leads and HR partners
34%OF USERS
Managers and people-ops professionals take it to gauge psychological safety in groups and spot conditions that increase tension or trust.
Helpers and care professionals
25%OF USERS
Clinicians, educators, and frontline helpers use it to understand their own nervous-system readiness for social interaction and recovery after strain.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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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
Bodily sensationsBs
You?
Average2
Typical rangeTypical1.3 – 2.8
Possible1 – 5
CompassionC
You?
Average2.3
Typical rangeTypical1.8 – 2.8
Possible1 – 5
Social ActivitySA
You?
Average3.5
Typical rangeTypical3 – 4
Possible1 – 5
Psychological SafetyPS
You?
Average3.4
Typical rangeTypical2.8 – 3.9
Possible1 – 5
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

    • Strongly disagree
    • Somewhat disagree
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Somewhat agree
    • Strongly agree
    • Strongly disagree
    • Disagree somewhat
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Agree somewhat
    • Strongly agree
    • Strongly disagree
    • Somewhat disagree
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Somewhat agree
    • Strongly agree
These are 3 of the 29 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to examine how safe, connected, and settled they feel around others can use the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Test as a structured self-reflection. It is suitable for considering experiences of trust, expression, bodily calm, and care in a social setting. This psychological safety questionnaire can make patterns in interpersonal comfort easier to notice and discuss.

What This Assessment Explores

The items examine safety as a lived experience: how the body settles, how a person relates to others, and whether the social environment feels trustworthy. They suit people reflecting on a relationship, group, or recent interaction rather than one fixed setting. A neuroception assessment of this kind turns those experiences into a profile with four displayed dimensions:

  • Bodily Sensations (1-5) measures awareness of physical signals linked with safety; higher scores mean stronger attunement. Low awareness is 1-3.1; High awareness is 3.2-5.
  • Compassion (1-5) reflects empathy and readiness to support others. Lower compassion is 1-3.3; Higher compassion is 3.4-5.
  • Social Engagement (1-5) reflects openness and active participation in interaction. Low social activity is 1-3.2; Typical social activity is 3.3-5.
  • Psychological Safety (1-5) reflects perceived protection, trust, and interpersonal comfort. Low safety is 1-3.2; High safety is 3.3-5.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement uses a five-point agreement format from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. Items address relationships, compassionate responses, and bodily cues, while results organize responses into four displayed 1-5 dimensions. Because the questionnaire does not specify item weights, reverse coding, or an aggregation formula, no extra scoring rule should be inferred.

The questionnaire is an online adaptation of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) described by Morton et al. (2024), with its items corresponding to the four displayed dimensions. Cogan et al. (2024, 2025) report validation studies in UK health and social care and adult community samples, and Porges (2022) provides the Polyvagal Theory framework for bodily and social safety responses. Those studies do not establish norms for this online questionnaire.

In practice, the psychological safety assessment gives a descriptive profile, not diagnostic cutoffs. Scores may shift with current stress, context, self-awareness, and honesty in self-report, so interpret the pattern alongside the situation that prompted it.

Author: Amy C. Edmondson, Stephen W. Porges
Literature:
  • Morton, L., Cogan, N., Kolacz, J., Calderwood, C., Nikolic, M., Bacon, T., Pathe, E., Williams, D., & Porges, S. W. (2024). A new measure of feeling safe: Developing psychometric properties of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS). Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 16(4), 701-708. 10.1037/tra0001313
  • Cogan, N., Morton, L., Campbell, J., Irvine Fitzpatrick, L., Lamb, D., De Kock, J., Ali, A., Young, D., & Porges, S. W. (2025). Neuroception of psychological safety scale (NPSS): Validation with a UK based adult community sample. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16(1), 2490329. 10.1080/20008066.2025.2490329
  • Cogan, N., Campbell, J., Morton, L., Young, D., & Porges, S. W. (2024). Validation of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Among Health and Social Care Workers in the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(12), 1551. 10.3390/ijerph21121551
  • Porges, S. W. (2022). Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 16, 871227. 10.3389/fnint.2022.871227

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