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YBOCS Test Quiz

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In about two minutes, the YBOCS Test presents 10 questions about shopping-related thoughts, urges, and behavior. Your result highlights the intensity of obsessive preoccupation and compulsive buying difficulties, helping you reflect on spending patterns, control, distress, and their impact on everyday life.
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How the Scales are Structured

ThoughtsT
Measures how frequent and intense intrusive shopping-related thoughts are and how much they interfere with daily functioning.
example score8/20
8/20Moderateexample score
0 – 6Low
7 – 13Moderate
14 – 20High
A score of 8 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting intrusive shopping thoughts are present at a noticeable level but not at the most severe end of the scale.
Compulsive Buying Behavior ScaleCBBS
Measures the severity of compulsive buying thoughts and behaviors and their impact on control and functioning.
example score21/40
21/40Highexample score
0 – 5Low
6 – 15Moderate
16 – 40High
A score of 21 falls in the High range, suggesting more frequent or intense compulsive buying urges with greater difficulty controlling spending and potential negative consequences.
BehaviorB
Measures the frequency and controllability of compulsive buying behaviors and how strongly they drive purchasing actions.
example score10/20
10/20Moderateexample score
0 – 6Low
7 – 13Moderate
14 – 20High
A score of 10 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting noticeable compulsive buying behaviors that can be difficult to control at times.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Worried frequent shoppers
44%OF USERS
People who feel their shopping urges are hard to control and want to understand how much the thoughts and behaviors are interfering with daily life.
People in therapy
33%OF USERS
Clients working on compulsive buying who use the questions to track symptom severity and changes in control over time.
Clinicians and researchers
23%OF USERS
Mental health professionals and study teams who screen for compulsive buying symptoms and monitor treatment or research outcomes.
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
ThoughtsT
You?
Average10.3
Typical rangeTypical6.9 – 13.8
Possible0 – 20
Compulsive Buying Behavior ScaleCBBS
You?
Average21.6
Typical rangeTypical15.5 – 27.6
Possible0 – 40
BehaviorB
You?
Average7.7
Typical rangeTypical4.2 – 11.2
Possible0 – 20
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

    • None.
    • Mild; less than 1 hour a day, or occasional.
    • Moderate; 1–3 hours a day, or frequent urges.
    • Severe; 3–8 hours a day, or very frequent urges.
    • Extreme; more than 8 hours a day, or nearly constant preoccupation.
    • None.
    • Mild: slight interference with social or work activities, but overall performance is not impaired.
    • Moderate: definite interference with social or work activities, but performance is still manageable.
    • Severe: causes substantial impairment in social or occupational functioning.
    • Extreme: incapacitating.
    • None.
    • Mild: not too distressing.
    • Moderate: distressing but still under control.
    • Severe: very distressing.
    • Extreme, almost constant and disabling distress.
These are 3 of the 10 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

YBOCS Test Quiz - Description and methodology of the test

addiction
financial behavior
ocd
shopaholism

For readers considering the YBOCS test for compulsive buying, this questionnaire examines shopping-related thoughts, urges, and actions. In its online form, the questionnaire provides a structured YBOCS assessment before someone decides what deserves closer attention. It is intended for people noticing persistent preoccupation, difficulty resisting purchases, or disruption linked to shopping. The result offers a profile for reflection and can clarify whether concerns center on preoccupation, behavior, or both.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire examines two connected sides of compulsive buying: the mental pull of shopping and the behavior that follows it. Items address time occupied, distress, interference with daily roles, resistance, and control. As a compulsive buying test, it describes severity across internal experience and reported shopping actions rather than simply counting purchases.

The three displayed dimensions are:

  • Thoughts (0-20) measures the intensity and frequency of shopping-related obsessions; Low 0-6, Moderate 7-13, High 14-20.
  • Compulsive Buying Behavior Scale (0-40) reflects buying severity, impaired control, and negative consequences; Low 0-5, Moderate 6-15, High 16-40.
  • Behavior (0-20) measures the frequency and controllability of compulsive shopping actions; Low 0-6, Moderate 7-13, High 14-20.

Together, the profile describes a pattern across shopping-related thoughts, overall compulsive buying severity, and reported behavior.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item offers five ordered choices, moving from controlled experiences toward greater time involvement, distress, interference, resistance difficulty, or loss of control. Five prompts address shopping thoughts; five address behavior, including time, interference, anxiety, resistance, and control. This structure follows the Yale-Brown approach by examining severity through these dimensions rather than frequency alone.

The questionnaire aligns conceptually with the published YBOCS-SV structure, but is not an established equivalent standardized version. YBOCS-SV (Monahan et al., 1996) is the closest source for its compulsive-buying focus. The Yale-Brown framework is described by Goodman et al. (1989), with Leite et al. (2014) offering evidence from a later Brazilian version. The Yale-Brown framework originated in OCD assessment, whereas this compulsive shopping assessment applies its structured questions to shopping-related thoughts and behavior rather than general OCD symptoms. Response choices are ordered by severity, but no point assignment is stated, so displayed bands should not be reverse-engineered into a scoring formula.

Results form a descriptive self-report profile. Current stress, finances, memory, shame, and willingness to disclose may shift answers, so interpretation is strongest alongside broader functioning and history.

Author: Goodman, W., Monahan, P.
Literature:
  • Monahan, P., Black, D. W., & Gabel, J. (1996). Reliability and validity of a scale to measure change in persons with compulsive buying. Psychiatry Research, 64(1), 59-67. 10.1016/0165-1781(96)02908-3
  • Leite, P. L., Filomensky, T. Z., Black, D. W., & Silva, A. C. (2014). Validity and reliability of the Brazilian version of Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-Shopping Version (YBOCS-SV). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55(6), 1462-1466. 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.04.012
  • Goodman, W. K., Price, L. H., Rasmussen, S. A., Mazure, C., Fleischmann, R. L., Hill, C. L., Heninger, G. R., & Charney, D. S. (1989). The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: I. Development, Use, and Reliability. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46(11), 1006-1011. 10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007

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