Peer Victimization Scale Test

Designed to explore experiences of negative treatment by peers, the Peer Victimization Scale Test contains 16 questions and takes about 3 minutes. Your result highlights patterns involving belongings, social treatment, verbal aggression, and physical harm, supporting clearer self-reflection about difficult peer interactions.

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How the Scales are Structured

Property VictimizationPV

Assesses how often a child experiences theft, damage, or taking of personal belongings by peers.

example score5/8

5/8Moderateexample score

0 – 2Low

3 – 5Moderate

6 – 8High

A score of 5 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting these property-related incidents occur sometimes to fairly often.

Social ManipulationSM

Measures how often a child experiences peer social exclusion, rumor-spreading, or other forms of social pressure and manipulation.

example score3/8

3/8Moderateexample score

0 – 2Low

3 – 5Moderate

6 – 8High

A score of 3 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting occasional experiences of social manipulation such as exclusion or gossip.

Verbal VictimizationVV

Verbal victimization measures how often a person experiences insults, teasing, or other verbal aggression from peers.

example score2/8

2/8Lowexample score

0 – 2Low

3 – 5Moderate

6 – 8High

A score of 2 falls in the Low range, suggesting infrequent experiences of verbal bullying compared with higher scores on this scale.

Physical VictimizationPV

Measures how often a child experiences physical bullying from peers, such as hitting or pushing.

example score7/8

7/8Highexample score

0 – 2Low

3 – 5Moderate

6 – 8High

A score of 7 falls in the High range, suggesting frequent or intense experiences of physical aggression from peers.

Peer VictimizationPV

Measures how often a child experiences peer victimization across physical, verbal, social, and property-related bullying behaviors.

example score22/32

22/32Highexample score

0 – 10Low

11 – 21Moderate

22 – 32High

A score of 22 falls in the High range, suggesting frequent experiences of negative treatment from peers across one or more victimization types.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

School psychologists and counselors

41%OF USERS

They use it to map which forms of peer bullying are most common in a class or group and guide prevention planning.

Education and psychology researchers

34%OF USERS

They take it to collect standardized data on physical, verbal, social, and property-related victimization for studies and evaluations.

Parents and caregivers

25%OF USERS

They use it to better understand what a child may be experiencing at school and to prepare for informed conversations with staff.

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

Encroachments on propertyEop

You?

Average3.5

Typical rangeTypical2.4 – 4.6

Possible0 – 8

Social ManipulationSM

You?

Average5.9

Typical rangeTypical4.5 – 7.3

Possible0 – 8

Verbal VictimizationVV

You?

Average3.3

Typical rangeTypical1.8 – 4.8

Possible0 – 8

Physical victimizationPv

You?

Average2.7

Typical rangeTypical1.7 – 3.8

Possible0 – 8

Peer Victimization ScalePVS

You?

Average23.8

Typical rangeTypical18.1 – 29.4

Possible0 – 32

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

You will see a list of behaviors that children may direct toward other children. Please indicate how often, during the past school year, you have been subjected to these behaviors by classmates.

- Never
- Once
- Repeatedly
- Never
- Once
- More than once
- Never
- Once
- Repeatedly

These are 3 of the 16 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Peer Victimization Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to understand whether difficult interactions with classmates or other peers have followed a pattern may find this peer victimization questionnaire useful. Its profile can help a respondent decide whether to reflect further, discuss the experience, or use the result to organize what they remember. The Peer Victimization Scale Test shows which forms of negative treatment stand out most clearly.

What This Assessment Explores

Items focus on concrete experiences rather than abstract opinions, and this peer bullying questionnaire helps separate insults, exclusion, friendship manipulation, property interference, and physical aggression. The result types are:

Property Victimization (0-8) reflects belongings being taken or damaged: Low 0-2, Moderate 3-5, High 6-8.
Social Manipulation (0-8) reflects exclusion, rumors, or pressure around friendships: Low 0-2, Moderate 3-5, High 6-8.
Verbal Victimization (0-8) reflects insults, teasing, obscene language, or ridicule: Low 0-2, Moderate 3-5, High 6-8.
Physical Victimization (0-8) reflects hitting, kicking, beating, or other physical aggression: Low 0-2, Moderate 3-5, High 6-8.
Peer Victimization (0-32) reflects overall negative treatment across domains: Low 0-10, Moderate 11-21, High 22-32.

Within each scale, higher scores indicate more frequent or extensive exposure in that area. Together, these results show which forms of peer harm stand out in the respondent’s report.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each statement asks about a specific peer interaction and offers frequency choices such as Never, Once, Repeatedly, or More than once. This focuses the response on occurrence rather than general impressions. The questionnaire converts those responses into domain and overall results; the questionnaire does not state how many points each response contributes, so readers should use the displayed bands rather than infer another scoring rule.

The online questionnaire follows the item structure and four domains of the Multidimensional Peer-Victimization Scale (Mynard and Joseph, 2000), a published self-report scale. Eastman and colleagues’ 2018 study examined the scale’s factor structure and psychometric properties. Those findings describe the published instrument; they do not by themselves validate this online administration, whose displayed bands are questionnaire-specific, with no online-version norms or independent validation claimed.

This peer victimization survey helps identify reported patterns that a respondent may wish to reflect on or discuss. Memory, circumstances, willingness to disclose, and interpretation can affect self-report. Because the bands are descriptive rather than norm-based clinical thresholds, a high result should be read in context, not as a diagnosis.

Literature:

Mynard, Helen, and Joseph, Stephen. (2000). Development of the multidimensional peer-victimization scale. Aggressive Behavior, 26(2), 169-178. 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(2000)26:2<169::AID-AB3>3.0.CO;2-A
Eastman, Meridith L., Moore, Ashlee A., Cecilione, Jennifer, Hettema, John M., and Roberson-Nay, Roxann. (2018). Confirmatory factor structure and psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Peer Victimization Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 40(4), 725-735. 10.1007/s10862-018-9678-2

Updated: 2026-09-01