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Bullying Risk Assessment Questionnaire Test

Taking about four minutes, the Bullying Risk Assessment Questionnaire Test uses 17 questions to explore peer interactions and classroom climate. Your result indicates the overall level of bullying risk, placing it in the Low risk, Moderate risk, or High risk band and helping you reflect on relationships and where prevention or support may be useful.

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How the Scales are Structured

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This scale measures the overall level of bullying risk in the class or school environment based on reported peer pressure and aggression.

example score22/51

22/51Moderate riskexample score

0 – 17Low risk

18 – 34Moderate risk

35 – 51High risk

A score of 22 falls in the Moderate risk range, suggesting some signs of difficulties that may warrant closer attention to classroom climate.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

School psychologists and counselors

41%OF USERS

They use it to quickly screen classes for bullying risk, understand the group climate, and decide what support or follow-up is needed.

Homeroom and subject teachers

34%OF USERS

They take it to check whether peer aggression is affecting their class and to plan practical prevention steps and discussions.

School administrators

25%OF USERS

They use it during routine check-ups or after incidents to get a clear snapshot of bullying risks across grades and coordinate interventions.

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

Points scoredPs

You?

Average37.4

Typical rangeTypical29.6 – 45.2

Possible0 – 51

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- A) Never
- B) Rarely (once a month or less)
- C) Sometimes (once a week)
- D) Often (almost every day)
- This does not happen
- Yes, but rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- No, this does not happen
- This happens, but very rarely
- This happens from time to time
- Yes, this happens often

These are 3 of the 17 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Bullying Risk Assessment Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test

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class climate

People with direct knowledge of a class or school environment may use the Bullying Risk Assessment Questionnaire Test to examine conditions that can make students feel unsafe or unsupported. As a school bullying questionnaire, it organizes observations about peer behavior, bystander responses, adult involvement, and social climate. This can help clarify where prevention or support deserves attention, while the overall result indicates the level of bullying risk.

What This Assessment Measures

Rather than focusing only on a targeted student, this assessment examines the class setting where bullying may occur. As a classroom climate assessment, it covers name-calling, exclusion, damaged belongings, fear, fighting, rumors, cyberbullying, humiliation, isolation, peer defense, access to help, teacher involvement, mutual support, and speaking up.

The questions cover these thematic areas; together, they contribute to one overall risk score rather than producing separate dimension scores:

Peer aggression shows how often harmful acts or threats are noticed.
Exclusion shows whether students are left out or unsupported.
Bystander and adult response show whether classmates and teachers help.
Climate and student voice show openness and comfort speaking up.

Total Score ranges from 0-51 and represents overall bullying risk. The displayed bands are Low risk 0-17, Moderate risk 18-34, and High risk 35-51. Low suggests a favorable situation; average results suggest indicators needing attention; high results may indicate substantial risk.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item offers four ordered choices, usually describing frequency or intensity from never to often. Other choices address support, openness, or teacher action, so the respondent rates observed conditions rather than only personal victimization. Responses are combined into the displayed total; no point value is stated for each label, so scoring should not be inferred from wording.

The closest subject match is the Risk of Bullying Questionnaire, while Bochaver's school-environment study addresses support, safety, openness, and relationships. Olweus’s work supplies the broader bullying-at-school framework, and Solberg and Olweus provide context for structured school-bullying measurement. The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with these sources, not a direct adaptation or standardized reproduction of any one of them.

As a bullying risk test, it helps organize observations and identify patterns for discussion. Population norms have not been established for this online version, so its displayed bands are questionnaire-specific and should not be treated as population norms. Current events, visibility, memory, and candor can affect results; they do not establish causes or a clinical diagnosis.

Author: Dan Olweus

Literature:

Bochaver, A. A., Kuznetsova, V. B., Bianki, E. M., Dmitriyevsky, P. V., Zavalishina, M. A., Kaporskaya, N. A., and Khlomov, K. D. (2015). The Risk of Bullying Questionnaire. Issues of Psychology, no. 5, pp. 146-157.
Bochaver, A. A., Korneev, A. A., and Khlomov, K. D. (2022). School Climate Questionnaire: A New Tool for Assessing the School Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 871466. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.871466
Olweus, D. (1993). Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Solberg, M. E., and Olweus, D. (2003). Prevalence Estimation of School Bullying with the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire. Aggressive Behavior, 29(3), pp. 239-268. 10.1002/ab.10047

Updated: 2025-10-02