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Suicide Risk Factors Questionnaire Test

This 26-question self-report takes about 5 minutes to complete. The Suicide Risk Factors Questionnaire Test examines emotional coping and responses to difficult situations. Your result can support personal reflection by highlighting resilience, possible vulnerability, and areas that may benefit from closer attention.

Questions: 265 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Resilience to Psychoemotional StressRtPS

Measures the person’s capacity to cope with psycho-emotional stress and regulate affective responses under strain.

example score5/12

5/12Average resistanceexample score

0 – 4Low resistance

5 – 8Average resistance

9 – 12High resistance

A score of 5 indicates an average level of resistance to psycho-emotional stress, suggesting a generally selective affective response to different stressors.

Suicidal Reactivity PronenessSRP

Measures the severity of a person’s tendency toward suicidal reactions, especially under stress or conflict.

example score15/25

15/25Elevatedexample score

0 – 4Low

5 – 9Moderate

10 – 25Elevated

A score of 15 falls in the Elevated range, indicating a more pronounced tendency toward suicidal reactions that may intensify in stressful or conflict situations.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Counseling and clinical clients

41%OF USERS

People in therapy or psychiatric care take it to quickly clarify suicide risk factors and stress resilience during assessment or follow-up.

Crisis and high-stress individuals

34%OF USERS

People experiencing acute stress, burnout, loss, conflict, or major life changes use it to understand warning signs and decide on next steps.

Support staff and caregivers

25%OF USERS

Psychologists, social workers, school staff, and family caregivers use it to screen vulnerable groups and track changes over time.

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

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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

Resistance to psycho-emotional stressRtps

You?

Average8.4

Typical rangeTypical6.6 – 10.1

Possible0 – 12

Tendency Toward Suicidal ReactionsTTSR

You?

Average17.1

Typical rangeTypical12.8 – 21.4

Possible0 – 25

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

You will be presented with statements about your health and personal characteristics. If you agree with a statement, select “Yes”; if you do not agree, select “No.” Please respond without spending too much time on any one item. There are no right or wrong answers.

- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No

These are 3 of the 26 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Suicide Risk Factors Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test

suicidal risk

People considering this questionnaire may want a structured way to examine emotional strain, hopelessness, interpersonal pressure, and reactions to extreme situations. The Suicide Risk Factors Questionnaire Test is intended for self-reflection about patterns linked with vulnerability or resilience. By organizing concerns, this questionnaire about suicide risk gives diffuse experiences a clearer starting point for reflection or discussion. Results describe current reported tendencies rather than a fixed identity.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions address relationships, loneliness, jealousy, loss, self-evaluation, shame, work, finances, hopelessness, and severe stress. Some statements ask about positive expectations or the absence of a problem, so answer each Yes/No item by its wording.

The two displayed scales are:

Resilience to Psychoemotional Stress (0-12) reflects capacity to cope with psychoemotional stress. Low resistance is 0-4; Average resistance is 5-8 and indicates selective affective reactivity to different stimuli; High resistance is 9-12.
Suicidal Reactivity Proneness (0-25) reflects severity of proneness to suicidal reactions. Low is 0-4; Moderate is 5-9; Elevated is 10-25. The catalogue notes that average scores may indicate potential risk that can increase in stressful or conflict situations.

Together, the displayed scales show coping capacity and suicidal reactivity, while the question themes place factors associated with suicide risk in context without reducing the person to either result.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Methodologically, this online suicide risk questionnaire uses binary self-report: each item asks whether a situation, thought, or tendency applies, with Yes and No choices. The format records a binary response rather than frequency or intensity, and the items span affective stress, interpersonal loss, self-criticism, health and legal fears, occupational and financial pressure, and views of life’s value. The questionnaire reports two scale scores and places them in the displayed result bands; its item weighting and calculation method are not specified. The ranges should therefore not be reverse-engineered into a probability.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Joiner’s interpersonal theory and Shneidman’s concept of psychache; this relationship provides context for questions about disconnection, loss, unbearable psychological pain, and extreme reactions, not evidence that either framework standardized the online form.

Population norms and clinical validation are not stated for the online form, and its standardization status is not established. Scores can be influenced by current mood, context, honesty, and self-awareness. A single band cannot establish imminent danger or explain causation.

Author: Edwin S. Shneidman, Thomas E. Joiner

Literature:

Yunatskevich, Petr Ivanovich. (2018). Fundamentals of Military Suicidology. St. Petersburg: AEST Institute of Suicidology. 120 pp. ISBN 5-7199-0258-9.
Joiner, Thomas E. (2005). Why People Die by Suicide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 276 pp. 10.2307/j.ctvjghv2f.
Shneidman, Edwin S. (1993). Suicide as psychache. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181(3), 145-147. 10.1097/00005053-199303000-00001.

Updated: 2025-10-02