War Threat Appraisal Scale Test

Understand how strongly military threat is affecting your thoughts, feelings, and actions in just 2 minutes. Get a fast, clear snapshot to pinpoint what needs support and guide next steps.

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October 2, 2025

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How the Scales are Structured

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10/15

Brief War Threat Appraisal Scale (BWTAS)

Measures the overall intensity of a person’s subjective experience of military threat as a single aggregate score.

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0 – 5: Low | 6 – 10: Moderate | 11 – 15: High

A score of 10 falls in the Moderate range, indicating a noticeable but not maximal overall subjective perception of military danger.

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11/16

Anticipatory Adaptation (AA)

Measures proactive, regulatory-behavioral strategies for anticipating and preparing for potential military threat.

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Moderate

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4 – 8: Low | 9 – 12: Moderate | 13 – 16: High

A score of 11 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not dominant tendency toward anticipatory planning and behavioral adjustment under uncertainty.

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9/12

War-Related Anxiety (WRA)

Measures the intensity of emotional alarm (anxiety, fear, and inner tension) in response to perceived military threat.

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Moderate

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3 – 5: Low | 6 – 8: Moderate | 9 – 12: High

A score of 9 falls in the High range, suggesting pronounced emotional tension and worry related to the military threat theme.

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6/12

Anticipation of War (AoW)

Measures how strongly a person anticipates and mentally forecasts the likelihood of war-related events occurring.

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Moderate

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3 – 5: Low | 6 – 8: Moderate | 9 – 12: High

A score of 6 falls in the Moderate range, indicating a noticeable but not constant expectation of war-related events and related vigilance.

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23/40

Overall Level of War Threat Appraisal (OLoWTA)

Measures the overall intensity of a person’s integrated cognitive, emotional, and behavioral response to perceived military threat.

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Moderate

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10 – 19: Low | 20 – 29: Moderate | 30 – 40: High

A score of 23 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not extreme overall experience of military threat across thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

People in conflict zones

41%OF USERS

Civilians living under air-raid alerts, shelling, or occupation take it to gauge how strongly the threat is affecting their thoughts, feelings, and daily actions.

Military and security personnel

34%OF USERS

Service members and security workers use it to quickly check their stress level during deployments, duty rotations, or heightened alerts.

Displaced and refugee individuals

25%OF USERS

People who have fled fighting take it to understand lingering anxiety and which reactions—worry, fear, or hypervigilance—are most prominent.

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

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Brief Scale for Experiencing Military Threat (BSfEMT)

Average

8.5

Normal range

6 — 11

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Proactive Adaptation (PA)

Average

8.7

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6.5 — 10.9

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Military alert (Ma)

Average

8.1

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7 — 9.3

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Anticipation of war (Aow)

Average

8.9

Normal range

7.6 — 10.1

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Overall level of experiencing the military threat (Oloetmt)

Average

24.1

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18.7 — 29.5

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CLEAR ANSWERS TO COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this questionnaire measure?

It measures how intensely a person is experiencing a current military threat and how that experience appears in thoughts, emotions, and actions. Scores indicate overall intensity and the relative strength of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components.

Who is this questionnaire intended for?

It is intended for adults exposed to military threat or conflict-related conditions, including service members and civilians. It may be used for screening, monitoring, or triage in applied settings.

How long does it take to complete and how many items are included?

Completion typically takes about 2 minutes. The questionnaire includes 10 brief items.

How should items be answered?

Select the response that best matches the current state or recent reactions. Answer each item without overthinking and avoid leaving items blank when possible.

How should results be interpreted?

Higher scores reflect stronger threat-related experience and may signal a need for additional support. Results do not provide a diagnosis and should be interpreted alongside other clinical information.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

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War Threat Appraisal Scale Test - Symptoms and Signs

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This brief self-report measure is designed to assess an individual’s appraisal of and response to perceived war-related threat. The War Threat Appraisal Scale is intended for rapid screening of subjective distress and coping-related reactions in contexts of armed conflict or perceived danger.

The instrument includes 10 items and typically requires about 2 minutes to complete. Items are framed to capture common cognitive, emotional, and behavioral/regulatory responses to threat; results are generally used to describe relative intensity and predominant response patterns rather than to establish a diagnosis. Originally associated with the transactional stress and coping framework described by Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Folkman, the War Threat Appraisal Scale may be used in clinical, consultation, or research settings to inform case formulation, triage, and monitoring over time.

Author: Richard S. Lazarus, Susan Folkman

Literature: Spielberger, C. D. State-trait anxiety inventory: A comprehensive bibliography. Consulting Psychologists Press. 1989.

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