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Questionnaire for Assessing the Subjective Concept of Morbidity Test

In about five minutes, the Questionnaire for Assessing the Subjective Concept of Morbidity Test guides you through 22 questions about how you understand psychosis, its symptoms, onset, and consequences. Your result highlights personal patterns in these perceptions, offering a structured starting point for self-reflection and a clearer view of your experience.

Questions: 225 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Destructive Consequences of PsychosisDCoP

Measures the extent to which a person perceives a psychotic episode as having had destructive consequences for their life and future prospects.

example score1/3

1/3Elevated destructive impactexample score

-3 – 0Minimal/No destructive impact

1 – 3Elevated destructive impact

A score of 1 suggests an elevated tendency to view the psychotic episode as having negatively affected life or future prospects.

Constructive Consequences of PsychosisCCoP

Measures the extent to which a person can identify positive resources and opportunities for growth in the aftermath of psychotic experiences.

example score0/3

0/3Neutral/mixed viewexample score

-3 – -1Low constructive view

0Neutral/mixed view

1 – 3High constructive view

A score of 0 suggests a neutral or mixed interpretation, with neither a clear tendency to find constructive meaning nor to dismiss potential positive changes from the experience.

Negative Experience of SymptomsNEoS

Measures how unpleasant or burdensome the person perceives their psychotic symptoms to be.

example score0/3

0/3Neutral/mixedexample score

-3 – -1Low burden

0Neutral/mixed

1 – 3High burden

A score of 0 indicates a neutral or mixed perception of symptoms, without a distinctly burdensome negative experience.

Positive Experience of SymptomsPEoS

Assesses the extent to which a person perceives their psychotic symptoms as having positive or enriching aspects versus not.

example score-1/3

-1/3Low positive meaningexample score

-3 – -1Low positive meaning

0Mixed/neutral meaning

1 – 3High positive meaning

A score of -1 suggests a low tendency to view symptoms as positive or personally enriching.

Onset of PsychosisOoP

Measures how strongly the person perceives the onset of psychosis as a non-random event with identifiable antecedents in prior life experiences.

example score0/3

0/3Typical/neutralexample score

-3 – -1Less pronounced pattern

0Typical/neutral

1 – 3More pronounced pattern

A score of 0 indicates a typical, neutral sense that the development of psychosis is neither especially linked nor unlinked to prior life experiences compared with the general population.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

People starting treatment

41%OF USERS

Individuals newly diagnosed or beginning therapy use it to clarify how they view their condition and what they expect from treatment.

Patients in ongoing care

34%OF USERS

People already in outpatient or inpatient care take it to track how the illness affects daily life and motivation over time.

Clinicians planning interventions

25%OF USERS

Mental health professionals use it to understand a patient’s inner attitude toward illness and tailor psycho-correction and medication support.

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

Benchmarking

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

Destructive consequences of psychosisDcop

You?

Average-1.1

Typical rangeTypical-2.1 – -0.1

Possible-3 – 3

Constructive consequences of psychosisCcop

You?

Average-0.1

Typical rangeTypical-1.1 – 0.9

Possible-3 – 3

Negative experience of symptomsNeos

You?

Average-0.9

Typical rangeTypical-1.9 – 0

Possible-3 – 3

Positive Experience of SymptomsPEoS

You?

Average-0.7

Typical rangeTypical-1.7 – 0.4

Possible-3 – 3

The Onset of PsychosisTOoP

You?

Average-0.7

Typical rangeTypical-1.5 – 0.2

Possible-3 – 3

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Please read the statements below, which describe different ways of perceiving and understanding psychosis. Please select the response option that most accurately reflects your view of each statement.

- Matches your view
- Almost matches your view
- Does not quite match your view
- Does not match your view at all
- Matches your view
- Almost matches your view
- Does not quite match your view
- Does not match your view at all
- Matches your view
- Almost matches your view
- Does not quite match your view
- Does not match your view at all

These are 3 of the 22 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Questionnaire for Assessing the Subjective Concept of Morbidity Test - Description and methodology of the test

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For people reflecting on a past or current psychotic experience, this assessment is useful when different interpretations of what happened are difficult to compare. The Questionnaire for Assessing the Subjective Concept of Morbidity Test can help examine whether an experience is understood mainly through burden, meaning, personal change, or connections with earlier circumstances. It offers a structured psychosis self-assessment for comparing these perspectives and identifying which ones feel most prominent.

What This Assessment Explores

It examines psychosis, symptoms, onset, and consequences as a subjective concept of morbidity. The five dimensions are:

Destructive Consequences of Psychosis (-3-3) measures perceived harm to life prospects: Minimal/No destructive impact (-3-0) or Elevated destructive impact (1-3).
Constructive Consequences of Psychosis (-3-3) measures positive reinterpretation: Low constructive view (-3--1), Neutral/mixed view (0-0), or High constructive view (1-3).
Negative Experience of Symptoms (-3-3) measures perceived burden: Low burden (-3--1), Neutral/mixed (0-0), or High burden (1-3).
Positive Experience of Symptoms (-3-3) measures personal enrichment: Low positive meaning (-3--1), Mixed/neutral meaning (0-0), or High positive meaning (1-3).
Onset of Psychosis (-3-3) measures perceived links with prior experience: Less pronounced pattern (-3--1), Typical/neutral (0-0), or More pronounced pattern (1-3).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement asks how closely an experience matches the respondent’s view. Options generally move from agreement to disagreement, with some unsure choices, so the format captures appraisal rather than factual knowledge.

Five signed results are reported. Positive values generally show stronger expression of the named tendency; negative values show a lower or opposite tendency where defined. The online profile presents descriptive bands, not clinical cutoffs. A psychosis experience questionnaire is best read dimension by dimension, because positive and negative appraisals may coexist.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the 2020 study by Lutova and colleagues on subjective morbidity concepts, the SUSE work by Klapheck and colleagues, and the SuSi project by Bock and colleagues. It is not presented as an adaptation of those instruments. Together, these works support interpreting the five dimensions as complementary perspectives on the subjective meaning of psychosis: burden can coexist with meaning, and destructive consequences with constructive change.

Memory, current mood, honesty, and self-awareness can shape responses, so the result describes a perspective rather than a standalone clinical conclusion.

Author: Howard Leventhal, John B. Weinman

Literature:

Lutova NB, Sorokin MY, Makarevich OV, Wied VD. The subjective concept of morbidity: its assessment and connection with the motivation for treatment in persons who underwent psychosis. VM Bekhterev Review of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. 2020;(2):73-79. 10.31363/2313-7053-2020-2-73-79
Bock T, Brysinski T, Klapheck K, Bening U, Lenz A, Naber D. On subjective meaning of psychoses: construction, validation and first application of a new questionnaire-the SuSi Project (Hamburg). Psychiatrische Praxis. 2010;37(6):285-291. 10.1055/s-0030-1248424
Klapheck K, Nordmeyer S, Cronjäger H, Naber D, Bock T. Subjective experience and meaning of psychoses: the German Subjective Sense in Psychosis Questionnaire (SUSE). Psychological Medicine. 2012;42(1):61-71. 10.1017/S0033291711001103

Updated: 2025-10-02