Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) Test

People noticing changes across several ordinary situations may use this anhedonia test to consider the breadth of contexts covered by the questionnaire. It is intended for people examining hobbies, social contact, sensory comfort, food, praise, or recognition. This anhedonia quiz offers a structured way to review the range of situations addressed by their responses.

What This Assessment Explores

It is an anhedonia assessment of hedonic tone: how readily experiences feel rewarding. Its items cover interests, reading, food and drink, physical comfort, sensory pleasure, social contact, appearance, praise, and helping others. The focus is breadth of positive response, not one preferred activity.

The result brings these themes together:

• Anhedonia Severity (0-14) measures the capacity to experience pleasure across everyday activities; the displayed bands are Low anhedonia (0-4), Moderate anhedonia (5-9), and High anhedonia (10-14).
• Interests and reading show whether familiar activities still feel inviting.
• Sensory and physical comforts indicate responsiveness to bodily pleasure.
• Social and self-evaluative rewards reflect enjoyment of connection, praise, appearance, and helping.

A higher result indicates greater anhedonia and reduced ability to experience pleasure. The item themes can prompt reflection on different kinds of pleasure, while the result itself summarizes overall severity of anhedonia.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Responses in the SHAPS test are self-report statements about enjoyment, answered on four ordered options from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. The online questionnaire shows one overall result, not separate subscores. It does not document how its four response choices map to the total, so the displayed bands are fixed result categories whose boundaries cannot be inferred from the labels.

Its reference point is SHAPS (Snaith et al., 1995), a 14-item measure of hedonic tone. This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument, but it should not automatically be treated as a standardized adaptation or have published norms transferred to its score.

Franken et al. (2007) examined SHAPS in clinical and community samples, while Nakonezny et al. (2010) evaluated its psychometric performance in treatment-seeking people with major depression. Those findings concern the published SHAPS and its studied samples, rather than this online result.

Self-report can shift with mood, context, memory, and candor. A high score may indicate reduced pleasure, but it cannot identify the cause or establish a diagnosis; interpretation is strongest alongside duration, daily functioning, and broader assessment.