Sense of Agency Scale (SoAS) Test

With 13 questions and a three-minute completion time, the Sense of Agency Scale Test offers a snapshot of how much control you feel over your own actions and choices. It's not a diagnostic test - just a quick, practical way to reflect on your personal sense of agency.

Questions: 133 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Sense of Negative AgencySoNA

SoNA measures how far someone experiences their actions as lacking personal control or as driven by external forces.

example score29/49

29/49Mid-range scoresexample score

7 – 20Lower scores

21 – 34Mid-range scores

35 – 49Higher scores

An example score of 29 sits in the mid-range display band. These bands are Freudly's, not validated cutoffs from the 2017 study.

Sense of Positive AgencySoPA

SoPA measures how strongly someone experiences themselves as an active, responsible initiator with conscious control over their actions.

example score35/42

35/42Higher scoresexample score

6 – 17Lower scores

18 – 29Mid-range scores

30 – 42Higher scores

An example score of 35 sits in the higher display band. These bands are Freudly's, not validated cutoffs from the 2017 study.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Therapy and coaching clients

41%OF USERS

People working on motivation, decision-making, or recovery take it to understand whether they feel in control of their actions and choices.

Psychology researchers and students

34%OF USERS

Researchers and students use it as a quick measure of perceived agency for studies on self-awareness, behavior, and mental health.

High-stress professionals

25%OF USERS

Busy adults facing burnout or major life changes take it to check if stress is making them feel less involved or less responsible for outcomes.

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

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

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

These are 3 of the 13 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Sense of Agency Scale (SoAS) Test - Symptoms and Signs

subjectivity

The Sense of Agency Scale (SoAS) is a 13-item self-report questionnaire of a person's general, context-free beliefs about having core agency - the sense of being the initiator of one's actions. It was developed by Adam Tapal, Ela Oren, Reuven Dar and Baruch Eitam and published in Frontiers in Psychology (2017).

The published scale has two correlated factors: Sense of Positive Agency and Sense of Negative Agency (SoNA). It was validated with Hebrew-speaking samples. The authors do not publish cutoffs or English-language norms. Score bands shown on Freudly are our own display ranges for the result screen; they do not come from the 2017 validation. This online administration does not warrant clinical validity and this test is not a diagnostic instrument.

Author: Adam Tapal, Baruch Eitam, Ela Oren, Reuven Dar

Literature:

Tapal, A., Oren, E., Dar, R., & Eitam, B. (2017). The Sense of Agency Scale: A Measure of Consciously Perceived Control over One's Mind, Body, and the Immediate Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1552. 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01552
Hurault, J.-C., Broc, G., Crône, L., Tedesco, A., & Brunel, L. (2020). Measuring the Sense of Agency: A French Adaptation and Validation of the Sense of Agency Scale (F-SoAS). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 584145. 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584145

Updated: 2026-09-22