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Personal Religiosity Scale (SPR) Test

Understand your personal faith experience and inner religious engagement in about 6 minutes. Get a clear, fast snapshot to support counseling, research, and spiritual guidance.

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Questions: 306 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

18/42

Religious Self-Concept (RSC)

Measures how strongly a person identifies with religious values and feels a sense of belonging to a religious community.

Low religious identity

Moderate religious identity

High religious identity

6 – 17: Low religious identity | 18 – 29: Moderate religious identity | 30 – 42: High religious identity

A score of 18 indicates a moderate level of religious self-identification, suggesting some personal alignment with religious values and group belonging without it being a dominant part of identity.

example score

43/63

Religious Practices (RP)

Measures how frequently and regularly a person participates in religious ceremonies, rituals, and related practices.

Low participation

Moderate participation

High participation

9 – 26: Low participation | 27 – 44: Moderate participation | 45 – 63: High participation

A score of 43 indicates moderate participation in religious practices, suggesting fairly regular involvement that is not consistently high.

example score

41/49

Morality (M)

Assesses how strongly religious moral and ethical principles are integrated into everyday attitudes and behavior.

Low integration

Moderate integration

High integration

7 – 21: Low integration | 22 – 35: Moderate integration | 36 – 49: High integration

A score of 41 indicates a high level of integration of religious morality into daily decision-making and conduct.

example score

33/56

Faith (F)

Measures the intensity and conviction of personal religious belief in core tenets of faith.

Lower faith conviction

Moderate faith conviction

Strong faith conviction

8 – 24: Lower faith conviction | 25 – 40: Moderate faith conviction | 41 – 56: Strong faith conviction

A score of 33 falls in the Moderate faith conviction range, suggesting a meaningful but not consistently strong level of religious certainty and commitment.

example score

133/210

Personal Religiosity (PR)

Measures the overall strength of personal religiosity, including beliefs, moral orientation, religious practice, and self-identification.

Low religiosity

Moderate religiosity

High religiosity

30 – 89: Low religiosity | 90 – 149: Moderate religiosity | 150 – 210: High religiosity

A score of 133 falls in the Moderate religiosity range, suggesting a meaningful but not pervasive integration of religious beliefs and practices into daily life.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Practicing Christians Self-Reflecting

41%OF USERS

Believers take it to understand how deeply they personally experience faith beyond church attendance and routines.

Pastoral Counselors and Mentors

33%OF USERS

Spiritual leaders use it to gauge a person’s inner religious engagement and tailor guidance or formation accordingly.

Psychology and Religion Researchers

26%OF USERS

Researchers and clinicians use it to measure subjective religiosity and examine how it relates to wellbeing and coping.

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

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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Religious "Self" (R")

Average

21.5

Normal range

15.4 — 27.6

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Religious Practices (RP)

Average

23.2

Normal range

14.9 — 31.5

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Morality (M)

Average

18.7

Normal range

12.4 — 24.9

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Faith (F)

Average

33.9

Normal range

24.9 — 42.8

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Personal Religiosity Scale (PRS)

Average

110.9

Normal range

78.9 — 143

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210

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Completely agree
- Agree
- Somewhat agree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Disagree
- Completely disagree
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Somewhat agree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Somewhat agree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree

These are 3 of the 30 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Personal Religiosity Scale (SPR) Test - Symptoms and Signs

religiosity

This self-report measure assesses an individual’s subjective involvement in religious experience and personal faith-related feelings. The Personal Religiosity Scale (SPR) is intended to capture internal religiosity rather than focusing solely on external rituals or affiliation.

The instrument includes 30 items and typically requires about 6 minutes to complete. It is most appropriately used with Christian respondents in clinical, pastoral, or research contexts when an estimate of personal religious engagement may inform case formulation or descriptive profiling (Jaworski, R.).

Scores from the Personal Religiosity Scale (SPR) should be interpreted within the individual’s cultural and denominational context and integrated with other clinical information, rather than treated as a stand-alone indicator of psychological functioning.

Author: Jaworski, R.

Literature: Hood, R. W., Hill, P. C., & Spilka, B. The psychology of religion: An empirical approach. Guilford Press. 2009.