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A curated library of validated psychometric instruments — each with its reliability, scoring, subscales, and a ready-to-cite methods sentence. Drop any of them into your study in Folio Surveyor.

AMS-C 2828 items

Academic Motivation Scale — College Version

A 28-item multidimensional measure of academic motivation grounded in Self-Determination Theory. Assesses seven motivational orientations: three forms of intrinsic motivation, three forms of extrinsic regulation, and amotivation. Stem: "Why do you go to college?"

psychologyeducationsocial sciences
AEQ232 items

Achievement Emotions Questionnaire

A modular instrument measuring nine achievement emotions (enjoyment, hope, pride, anger, anxiety, shame, hopelessness, boredom, relief) across class, learning, and test settings.

educationpsychology
AHS12 items

Adult Dispositional Hope Scale

A 12-item measure of dispositional hope (8 scored items plus 4 fillers) comprising agency — goal-directed determination — and pathways, the perceived ability to plan routes to goals.

psychologyeducationsocial sciences
AUDIT10 items

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test

A 10-item screening tool developed by the WHO to identify hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption and possible dependence over the past year.

health sciencespsychology
BAI21 items

Beck Anxiety Inventory

A 21-item self-report measure of the severity of anxiety symptoms over the past week, designed to discriminate anxiety from depression.

psychologyhealth sciences
BDI-II21 items

Beck Depression Inventory-II

A 21-item self-report measure of depression severity over the past two weeks, aligned with DSM criteria; each item presents four statements of increasing severity (0-3).

psychologyhealth sciences
BSMAS6 items

Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale

A 6-item scale applying the components model of addiction (salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, relapse) to social-media use over the past year.

psychologyhealth sciencessocial sciences
BFI-4444 items

Big Five Inventory

A 44-item self-report inventory measuring the Big Five personality dimensions (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness) using short phrase items. A de-facto standard in personality research — balances brevity with subscale-level reliability.

psychologysocial scienceseducation
BFI-260 items

Big Five Inventory-2

A 60-item hierarchical measure of the Big Five personality domains, each with three facets, updating the original Big Five Inventory.

psychologysocial sciences
BRS6 items

Brief Resilience Scale

A 6-item unidimensional scale measuring resilience in its original sense — the ability to bounce back or recover from stress.

psychologyhealth sciences
BSCS13 items

Brief Self-Control Scale

A 13-item short form measuring trait self-control — the ability to override inner responses and interrupt undesired behavioural tendencies.

psychologysocial scienceseducation
Brief-COPE28 items

Brief-COPE

A 28-item abbreviated version of the COPE inventory measuring 14 coping strategies (two items each), spanning problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidant coping.

psychologyhealth sciences
CES-D20 items

Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale

A 20-item self-report scale measuring frequency of depressive symptoms in the past week, designed for epidemiological research in the general population.

psychologyhealth sciences
CD-RISC-1010 items

Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10

A 10-item unidimensional measure of resilience (the ability to cope with adversity), refined from the original 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale.

psychologyhealth sciences
DTDD12 items

Dark Triad Dirty Dozen

A 12-item brief measure of the Dark Triad — Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy — with four items per trait.

psychologysocial sciences
DASS-2121 items

Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21

A 21-item short form of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, with three 7-item subscales measuring depression, anxiety, and stress over the past week.

psychologyhealth sciences
EPDS10 items

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

A 10-item self-report screen for depression during pregnancy and after childbirth, focused on mood symptoms rather than the somatic ones common in the perinatal period.

health sciencespsychology
EQ-5D-5L6 items

EQ-5D-5L (Five-Level EuroQol)

A generic preference-based measure of health-related quality of life across five dimensions: Mobility, Self-Care, Usual Activities, Pain/Discomfort, and Anxiety/Depression. Each dimension has five response levels. The descriptive system is accompanied by a visual analogue scale (EQ VAS) rating overall health today from 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

health sciencespsychology
ECR-R36 items

Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised

A 36-item measure of adult romantic attachment along two continuous dimensions — attachment-related anxiety and avoidance — refined using item response theory.

psychologysocial sciences
FSS9 items

Fatigue Severity Scale

A 9-item unidimensional scale measuring the functional impact of fatigue on daily activities, developed in multiple sclerosis and lupus populations.

health sciencespsychology
FoMO10 items

Fear of Missing Out Scale

A 10-item unidimensional scale measuring fear of missing out — the pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent.

psychologysocial sciences
FFMQ39 items

Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

A 39-item measure of trait mindfulness across five facets: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging, and non-reactivity.

psychologyhealth sciences
GAD-77 items

Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7

A 7-item self-report instrument for screening and measuring the severity of generalized anxiety disorder.

psychologyhealth sciences
GQ-66 items

Gratitude Questionnaire-6

A 6-item unidimensional measure of dispositional gratitude — the tendency to notice and appreciate the positive in life.

psychologysocial sciences
HEXACO-6060 items

HEXACO-60

A 60-item short form of the HEXACO Personality Inventory measuring six broad dimensions: Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eXtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O). Adds a sixth factor (H) to the Big Five and reframes Agreeableness and Emotionality around the moral and affective components of interpersonal behaviour.

psychologysocial sciences
HADS14 items

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

A 14-item screening scale for anxiety and depression in medically ill and general-hospital populations, deliberately excluding somatic symptoms that confound physical illness.

health sciencespsychology
ISI7 items

Insomnia Severity Index

A 7-item self-report measure of the nature, severity, and impact of insomnia over the past two weeks, widely used as an outcome measure in insomnia research.

health sciencespsychology
IPAQ-SF7 items

International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Short Form)

A 7-item self-report questionnaire estimating physical activity (vigorous, moderate, walking) and sitting time over the past seven days, yielding MET-minutes per week.

health sciencespsychology
IGDS9-SF9 items

Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form

A 9-item scale assessing Internet Gaming Disorder against the nine DSM-5 criteria over the past 12 months.

psychologyhealth sciences
IRI28 items

Interpersonal Reactivity Index

A 28-item multidimensional measure of dispositional empathy, comprising four 7-item subscales: Perspective Taking (cognitive empathy), Fantasy (imaginative identification), Empathic Concern (other-oriented affect), and Personal Distress (self-oriented affect).

psychologysocial scienceshealth sciences
JSS36 items

Job Satisfaction Survey

A 36-item measure of employee satisfaction with nine work-related facets: Pay, Promotion, Supervision, Fringe Benefits, Contingent Rewards, Operating Conditions, Coworkers, Nature of Work, and Communication. Originally developed for human-service employees and since validated across a wide range of occupations.

psychologysocial sciences
K1010 items

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)

A 10-item scale measuring non-specific psychological distress (anxiety and depressive symptoms) over the past 30 days, widely used in population health surveys.

psychologyhealth sciences
MBI-GS16 items

Maslach Burnout Inventory — General Survey

A 16-item measure of burnout in non-human-services occupations. Generalises the original MBI from human-service work to any occupational context. Produces three subscale scores: Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Professional Efficacy (the last is reverse-indexed for burnout — higher efficacy = lower burnout).

psychologysocial scienceshealth sciences
MAAS15 items

Mindful Attention Awareness Scale

A 15-item unidimensional scale measuring dispositional mindfulness as the frequency of open, receptive attention to present-moment experience (scored via inattention/absent-mindedness).

psychologyhealth sciences
Mini-IPIP20 items

Mini-IPIP

A 20-item short measure of the Big Five personality factors (four items each), drawn from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool.

psychologysocial sciences
MFQ-3030 items

Moral Foundations Questionnaire

A 30-item measure of the five moral foundations identified in Moral Foundations Theory: Care/Harm, Fairness/Reciprocity, Loyalty/Betrayal (Ingroup), Authority/Subversion (Respect), and Sanctity/Purity. The form uses two item types — relevance judgments (Part 1) and agreement with moral statements (Part 2) — three of each per foundation.

psychologysocial scienceshumanities
MSLQ81 items

Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire

An 81-item self-report instrument measuring college students' motivational orientations (six subscales) and use of learning strategies (nine subscales); modular by design.

educationpsychology
MSPSS12 items

Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

A 12-item scale measuring perceived adequacy of social support from three sources: family, friends, and a significant other (four items each).

psychologysocial scienceshealth sciences
NASA-TLX6 items

NASA Task Load Index

A multi-dimensional rating procedure that assesses perceived workload across six subscales. Widely used in human factors, aviation, healthcare, and HCI research. Two common versions are in use: the original weighted TLX (with pairwise comparisons) and the Raw TLX (unweighted mean of subscales).

psychologystemhealth sciences
NFC-SF18 items

Need for Cognition Scale (Short Form)

An 18-item short form of the Need for Cognition scale measuring an individual's tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activity.

psychologysocial scienceseducation
OCQ15 items

Organizational Commitment Questionnaire

A 15-item measure of affective organizational commitment — belief in the organization's goals, willingness to exert effort, and desire to maintain membership.

social sciencespsychology
PAM-1313 items

Patient Activation Measure

A 13-item measure of patient knowledge, skill, and confidence for self-management of chronic conditions and general health. Items vary in difficulty and are scored using a Rasch-calibrated algorithm that converts raw responses to a 0–100 activation score, classified into four activation levels.

health sciencespsychology
PHQ-1515 items

Patient Health Questionnaire-15

A 15-item measure of somatic symptom burden covering the most prevalent physical complaints in primary care, over the past four weeks.

health sciencespsychology
PHQ-99 items

Patient Health Questionnaire-9

A 9-item self-report instrument for screening and measuring the severity of depression, based on DSM diagnostic criteria.

psychologyhealth sciences
PSS-1010 items

Perceived Stress Scale

A 10-item self-report instrument measuring the degree to which situations in one's life over the past month are appraised as stressful, unpredictable, and uncontrollable.

psychologyhealth sciencessocial sciences
PSQI19 items

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

A 19-item self-report questionnaire assessing sleep quality and disturbances over the past month, yielding seven component scores and a global score.

health sciencespsychology
PANAS20 items

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

A 20-item mood scale with two 10-item subscales, Positive Affect and Negative Affect, rated for a specified time frame (e.g., "right now," "past week").

psychologysocial sciences
PCL-520 items

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5

A 20-item self-report measure of the DSM-5 symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder over the past month, across four symptom clusters.

psychologyhealth sciences
R-SPQ-2F20 items

Revised Study Process Questionnaire

A 20-item instrument measuring two approaches to learning in tertiary students: Deep Approach (driven by intrinsic interest; intention to understand) and Surface Approach (driven by fear of failure; intention to reproduce). Each approach decomposes into Motive and Strategy subscales (5 items each), yielding four 5-item subscales in total.

educationpsychology
RSES10 items

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

A 10-item self-report instrument measuring global self-esteem as a unidimensional construct.

psychologysocial sciences
RRS22 items

Ruminative Responses Scale

A 22-item measure of ruminative responses to depressed mood; a refined 10-item version separates maladaptive brooding from more neutral reflection.

psychologyhealth sciences
Ryff-PWB42 items

Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being

A multidimensional measure of eudaimonic psychological well-being across six dimensions; circulated in 18-, 42-, 54- and 84-item versions.

psychologysocial scienceshealth sciences
SWLS5 items

Satisfaction with Life Scale

A 5-item self-report instrument assessing global cognitive judgments of one's life satisfaction as a component of subjective well-being.

psychologysocial sciences
SCS26 items

Self-Compassion Scale

A 26-item measure of self-compassion across six subscales: self-kindness vs. self-judgment, common humanity vs. isolation, and mindfulness vs. over-identification.

psychologyhealth sciences
SD327 items

Short Dark Triad

A 27-item measure of the three dark personality traits: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. Nine items per trait. Designed as a brief alternative to full-length Mach-IV, NPI-40, and SRP scales.

psychologysocial sciences
Grit-S8 items

Short Grit Scale

An 8-item measure of grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals) with two 4-item subscales: consistency of interest and perseverance of effort.

psychologyeducationsocial sciences
SAS-SV10 items

Smartphone Addiction Scale (Short Version)

A 10-item short-form scale measuring problematic smartphone use, derived from the 33-item Smartphone Addiction Scale and validated with adolescents.

psychologyhealth sciencessocial sciences
SDO716 items

Social Dominance Orientation (SDO7)

A 16-item measure of preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality. Distinguishes two subdimensions: Dominance (support for active group-based oppression and hierarchy enhancement) and Anti-Egalitarianism (opposition to equality, conceptualised as hierarchy-maintaining).

psychologysocial sciences
SIAS20 items

Social Interaction Anxiety Scale

A 20-item measure of anxiety in social interaction situations — meeting and talking with others — designed as a companion to the Social Phobia Scale.

psychologyhealth sciences
STAI40 items

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y)

A 40-item self-report inventory measuring two distinct anxiety constructs: state anxiety (how one feels right now) and trait anxiety (how one generally feels), 20 items each.

psychologyhealth sciences
SDQ25 items

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

A 25-item behavioural screening questionnaire for children and adolescents (ages 3-16) with five subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer problems, and prosocial behaviour.

psychologyeducationhealth sciences
SUS10 items

System Usability Scale

A 10-item questionnaire giving a global view of subjective usability. Alternates positively- and negatively-worded items. Produces a single 0–100 score; 68 is commonly cited as the average.

stempsychologysocial sciences
TSES24 items

Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale

A 24-item measure (also a 12-item short form) of teachers' self-efficacy across three domains: student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management.

educationpsychology
TAM12 items

Technology Acceptance Model (core items)

The original Davis (1989) 12-item scale measuring two determinants of technology acceptance: Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU), six items each. The most widely-cited instrument in information-systems research. Item stems should be customised to name the specific system under study.

stemsocial sciencespsychology
TIPI10 items

Ten-Item Personality Inventory

A very brief 10-item measure of the Big Five personality dimensions (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness), with two items per dimension. Intended for use when brevity is essential; sacrifices internal consistency for breadth.

psychologysocial sciences
UCLA-LS320 items

UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3)

A 20-item self-report instrument measuring subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation. Version 3 uses simpler wording than earlier versions and balances positively and negatively worded items.

psychologysocial scienceshealth sciences
UWES-99 items

Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (short version)

A 9-item short form of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale measuring work engagement across three dimensions: Vigor, Dedication, and Absorption.

psychologysocial sciences
WEMWBS14 items

Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale

A 14-item scale measuring mental well-being (hedonic and eudaimonic) over the past two weeks, covering positive affect, psychological functioning, and interpersonal relationships.

psychologyhealth sciences
WHO-55 items

WHO-5 Well-Being Index

A 5-item self-report scale of subjective psychological well-being over the past two weeks; brief and widely used as a depression screen.

psychologyhealth sciences
WHOQOL-BREF26 items

World Health Organization Quality of Life — BREF

A 26-item abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100, measuring quality of life across four domains (Physical Health, Psychological, Social Relationships, Environment) plus two overall items on general QoL and general health. Response anchors vary by item (intensity, frequency, capacity, evaluation).

health sciencespsychologysocial sciences

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