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- SF-12 - 12-Item Short Form Health SurveyLength: 10 to 24
Brief generic HRQoL; reproduces the SF-36 Physical (PCS-12) and Mental (MCS-12) component summary scores
Restricted12 itemsHealth, quality of life and health psychology - 15D Health-Related Quality of Life instrument
Generic HRQoL and utility across 15 dimensions (mobility, vision, hearing, breathing, sleeping, eating, speech, elimination, usual activities, mental function, discomfort/symptoms, depression, distress, vitality, sexual activity); profile + single index
Restricted15 (one per dimension)Health, quality of life and health psychology - SF-8 - 8-Item Short Form Health Survey
Single-item-per-domain generic HRQoL; one item for each of the 8 SF-36 domains, yielding PCS-8 and MCS-8 summaries
Restricted8 (one per SF-36 domain)Health, quality of life and health psychology - AB5C-IPIP (Abridged Big Five Circumplex facet scales)
The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex: 45 facet scales formed by the blends of pairs of the Big Five factors (each facet has a primary and a secondary factor), operationalized with public-domain IPIP items
Open485 (the full IPIP AB5C set; ~9-11 items per facet across 45 facets)Personality: broadband models - AMTS - Abbreviated Mental Test Score
Rapid cognitive impairment screen in older adults - orientation, memory, attention/concentration, recall
Open10, total 0-10Neuropsychology and cognitive screening - ASB (Tepper) - Abusive Supervision Scale
Abusive supervision - subordinates' perceptions of sustained hostile verbal and non-verbal supervisor behaviours (ridicule, put-downs, broken promises), excluding physical contact.
Attribution15 (also a 5-item short form)Work: selection, leadership and performance - AAQ-II - Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II
Psychological inflexibility / experiential avoidance - the core process construct of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Attribution7 (AAQ-I 9)Self-regulation and positive traits - AGQ-R - Achievement Goal Questionnaire - Revised
Achievement goal orientations in the 2x2 framework: Mastery-Approach, Mastery-Avoidance, Performance-Approach, and Performance-Avoidance goals (competence defined by task/self vs others, valenced approach vs avoidance).
Attribution12 (3 items per goal)Vocational interests and career - AMS (Gjesme-Nygard) - Achievement Motives Scale
Achievement motivation as two motive dispositions: Motive to Achieve Success (Hope of Success) and Motive to Avoid Failure (Fear of Failure), anticipating positive vs negative affect in achievement situations.
Attribution30 (original); AMS-R revised short form = 10 (5 per motive)Vocational interests and career - ACS-90 - Action Control ScaleLength: 25 to 60
action vs state orientation; volition; disengagement; initiative; persistence
Restricted36 itemsSelf-regulation and positive traits - ABAS-3 - Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, Third Edition
Adaptive behavior across the lifespan; 3 broad domains (Conceptual, Social, Practical) via 11 skill areas (e.g., Communication, Community Use, Functional Academics, Home/School Living, Health & Safety, Leisure, Self-Care, Self-Direction, Social, Work, Motor); General Adaptive Composite
Restrictedvaries by form (~232-241 items per age-band form)Developmental, child, family and couple - ACE-III - Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III
Multi-domain cognitive screen; attention/orientation, memory, verbal fluency, language, visuospatial
Restrictedscored 0-100 across 5 domainsNeuropsychology and cognitive screening - ASI - Addiction Severity Index
Problem severity across 7 life areas affected by addiction - medical status, employment/support, alcohol use, drug use, legal status, family/social relationships, and psychiatric status - in lifetime and past-30-day timeframes
OpenApprox 200 items across the 7 problem areas (varies by edition)Clinical: specific disorders - ADHD-RS-5 - ADHD Rating Scale-5 for Children and Adolescents
DSM-5 ADHD symptoms rated by parents or teachers - Inattention (items 1-9) and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity (items 10-18) - plus impairment ratings across functional domains
Restricted18 symptom items (+ 12 impairment items in the 2016 edition)Clinical: specific disorders - ACL - Adjective Check List
Broadband personality description via 300 trait adjectives - 37 scales incl. the 15 Murray needs, topical scales, transactional-analysis ego states, and the Big Five (via later scoring)
Restricted300 adjectivesPersonality: broadband models - ASRS v1.1 - Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1
Adult ADHD symptoms (inattention + hyperactivity/impulsivity) mapped to DSM-IV/DSM-5 criteria; Part A 6-item screener + Part B 12 items
Attribution18 (Part A 6 + Part B 12)Clinical: specific disorders - AAI - Adult Attachment Interview
Adult state of mind with respect to attachment, coded from narrative coherence about childhood attachment experiences; classifications Secure-Autonomous, Dismissing, Preoccupied, Unresolved/Disorganized (plus Cannot Classify)
Restricted~20 interview questions (semistructured protocol); coded on 9-point state-of-mind and experience scalesDevelopmental, child, family and couple - AAS / RAAS - Adult Attachment Scale (and Revised AAS)Length: 10 to 24
Adult attachment on subscales Close, Depend, and Anxiety (AAS); the RAAS reorganizes toward Avoidance (Close+Depend) and Anxiety
Open18 itemsDevelopmental, child, family and couple - ACCI - Adult Career Concerns Inventory
Adult career-stage concerns aligned with Super's developmental stages: Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, and Disengagement (each with three task subscales). Measures salience of vocational-development tasks and career-change status, supporting maxi-/mini-cycle recycling.
Restricted61 (60 concern items, 15 per stage; plus 1 career-change-status item)Vocational interests and career - AHS / DHS - Adult Hope Scale (Dispositional Hope Scale)Length: 10 to 24
hope; agency (goal-directed energy); pathways (planning)
Restricted12 itemsSelf-regulation and positive traits - ATQ - Adult Temperament Questionnaire
Adult temperament; 4 higher-order factors: Effortful Control, Negative Affect, Extraversion/Surgency, Orienting Sensitivity (with constituent subscales)
Restricted77 (short form); a long form (~249 items) also existsDevelopmental, child, family and couple - ACE - Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire
Cumulative childhood adversity before age 18 - abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect (emotional, physical) and household dysfunction (parental separation, domestic violence, household substance use, household mental illness, incarcerated household member); summed to an ACE score 0-10
Open10 (original ACE score); WHO ACE-IQ approx 43 itemsClinical: mood, anxiety and stress - ACT - Affective Communication TestLength: 10 to 24
Nonverbal emotional expressiveness / emotional 'charisma' - the disposition to express emotions nonverbally and influence others affectively
Attribution13 itemsEmotional and social intelligence - AFM-2 - Affectometer 2
General happiness as the balance of positive over negative affect, structured around ten qualities of happiness (including confluence, optimism, self-esteem, social support, freedom and energy).
Attribution40 (20 sentence items and 20 adjective items); a 5-item short form existsWellbeing and positive psychology - ATI - Affinity for Technology Interaction ScaleLength: Under 10 items
Personal tendency to actively engage with rather than avoid intensive technology interaction; a technology-specific need-for-cognition construct.
Attribution9 itemsAI literacy - ASQ-3 - Ages and Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition
Parent-completed developmental screening (1-66 months) across 5 areas: Communication, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Problem Solving, Personal-Social
Restricted30 items per age interval (21 age-specific questionnaires), 6 per domainDevelopmental, child, family and couple - ACQ - Agoraphobic Cognitions QuestionnaireLength: 10 to 24
Frequency of catastrophic thoughts about the consequences of anxiety/panic (loss of control, physical catastrophe), the cognitive half of the 'fear of fear' construct
Attribution14 itemsClinical: mood, anxiety and stress - AH4 / AH5 / AH6 Group Tests of General Intelligence (Heim series)
general intelligence (g); verbal reasoning; numerical reasoning; abstract/diagrammatic reasoning
RestrictedAH4 = 65 items (Part 1 verbal/numerical + Part 2 diagrammatic); AH5/AH6 = high-ability versionsIntelligence and cognitive ability - AIAS-4 - AI Attitude Scale (4-item)Length: Under 10 items
General positive attitude toward AI (unidimensional): expected improvement of life, work, future use, and benefit to humanity.
Attribution4 itemsAI literacy - APQ - Alabama Parenting Questionnaire
Parenting practices linked to conduct problems: Parental Involvement, Positive Parenting, Poor Monitoring/Supervision, Inconsistent Discipline, Corporal Punishment
Restricted42 (full); 9 (APQ-9 short)Developmental, child, family and couple - AUDIT - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification TestLength: 10 to 24
Hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption + dependence over the past year; three domains - consumption, dependence symptoms, alcohol-related harm
Attribution10 itemsClinical: specific disorders - AUDIT-C - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - ConsumptionLength: Under 10 items
Hazardous drinking based on the three AUDIT consumption items (frequency, typical quantity, frequency of heavy episodes)
Attribution3 itemsClinical: specific disorders - ASSIST - Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test
Risk associated with use of tobacco, alcohol and 8 illicit/prescription drug classes; per-substance involvement scores and risk bands
Attribution8 questions asked per substance across all classes (~tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, inhalants, sedatives, hallucinogens, opioids, other)Clinical: specific disorders - AIST-R / AIST-3 - Allgemeiner Interessen-Struktur-Test (General Interest-Structure Test)
Holland's RIASEC vocational interests for German-speaking populations, with a companion Environment-Structure Test (UST-R) describing educational/occupational environments on the same 6 dimensions.
Restricted60 (10 items per RIASEC dimension)Vocational interests and career - ASRM - Altman Self-Rating Mania ScaleLength: Under 10 items
Self-rated severity of hypomanic/manic symptoms (mood, self-confidence, sleep, speech, activity)
Attribution5 itemsClinical: broadband and severity +1 - Altoida (Digital Neuro Signature)
Augmented-reality and motor digital biomarkers of cognition and function; complex IADL simulation mapping to multiple neurocognitive domains, predicting MCI/Alzheimer risk
Restricted~10-minute smartphone/tablet AR + motor task battery (e.g., place-and-find virtual objects, navigation, micro-motor tasks)Neuropsychology and cognitive screening - ADAS-Cog - Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive Subscale
Severity of cognitive symptoms in Alzheimer's; memory (word recall/recognition), language, praxis, orientation
Restricted11 tasks (ADAS-Cog-11, 0-70); ADAS-Cog-13 (0-85)Neuropsychology and cognitive screening - AEQ - Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness QuestionnaireLength: 25 to 60
Conflict about expressing emotion: wanting to express and not doing so, and expressing and then regretting it, across positive and negative emotion.
Attribution28 itemsEmotional and social intelligence - AMI - Ambivalence toward Men Inventory
Ambivalent attitudes toward men - Hostility toward Men (resentment of paternalism, compensatory gender differentiation, heterosexual hostility) and Benevolence toward Men (maternalism, complementary gender differentiation, heterosexual intimacy)
Attribution20 (10 Hostility toward Men + 10 Benevolence toward Men)Values, attitudes, ideology and morality - ASI - Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
Ambivalent sexism toward women on 2 correlated dimensions: Hostile Sexism (antipathy toward women who challenge men's status) and Benevolent Sexism (subjectively positive but patronising, protective attitudes)
Attribution22 (11 Hostile + 11 Benevolent)Values, attitudes, ideology and morality - Andrews-Withey Job Satisfaction / Faces single-item measures
Overall job (and life) satisfaction via very short evaluative items, including the delighted-terrible scale; related to Kunin's Faces Scale (single-item smiley-face satisfaction).
Open1-5 (single-item or very short)Work: attitudes and wellbeing - APSD - Antisocial Process Screening DeviceLength: 10 to 24
Psychopathy-linked traits in children/youth: Callous-Unemotional, Narcissism, Impulsivity dimensions
Restricted20 itemsPersonality: dark traits and pathology - ADIS-5 - Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5
Differential diagnosis and dimensional severity of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and stressor-related, mood, somatic-symptom and substance-use disorders, with a clinician severity rating per diagnosis
RestrictedSemi-structured disorder modules, each ending in a 0-8 clinician severity rating; administered item count varies with skip logicClinical: mood, anxiety and stress - ASI-3 - Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3
Anxiety sensitivity - the fear of anxiety-related sensations because of beliefs about their harmful consequences - across three replicable facets: physical concerns, cognitive concerns, and social concerns
Attribution18 (6 per subscale)Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress - scales (cut-e / Aon) - Aon Assessment (cut-e) scales Cognitive Ability Tests
general mental ability (GMA / g); numerical reasoning; verbal reasoning; abstract/inductive-deductive logical reasoning
RestrictedModular: separate short adaptive/fixed scales tests (e.g. scales numerical, scales eql numerical, scales verbal, scales lst deductive-logic, scales cls/sx inductive); each typically a few minutesIntelligence and cognitive ability - AWS - Areas of Worklife Survey
Person-job fit across six areas of worklife that drive burnout vs engagement: Workload (manageable), Control, Reward, Community, Fairness, Values (congruence).
Restricted28 (full); 18 (short, 6 areas x 3)Work: attitudes and wellbeing - ASEX - Arizona Sexual Experiences ScaleLength: Under 10 items
Five core dimensions of sexual function - drive, arousal, erection/lubrication, ability to reach orgasm, orgasm satisfaction (used across sexes)
Restricted5 itemsClinical: specific disorders - ASVAB - Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Multi-aptitude battery - general ability (AFQT) plus verbal, mathematics, science/technical, spatial and occupational composites
Openapprox 135 (CAT-ASVAB, 10 subtests); paper form longerIntelligence and cognitive ability - AISS - Arnett Inventory of Sensation SeekingLength: 10 to 24
sensation seeking; novelty; intensity
Open20 itemsSelf-regulation and positive traits - AIAS - Artificial Intelligence Anxiety Scale
Anxiety toward AI. Four dimensions: Learning, Job Replacement, Sociotechnical Blindness, AI Configuration.
Attribution21 (Learning 8, Job Replacement 6, Sociotechnical Blindness 4, AI Configuration 3)AI literacy - AILS - Artificial Intelligence Literacy Scale
Self-reported AI literacy / user competence in using AI. Four constructs: Awareness, Use, Evaluation, Ethics.
Attribution12 (retained from a 31-item validated pool; 65 generated)AI literacy - AES / SSEIT (SREIT) - Assessing Emotions Scale / Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence TestLength: 25 to 60
Self-report EI mapped to the Salovey-Mayer (1990) model - perception of emotion, managing own emotions, managing others' emotions, utilizing emotions (commonly a total score)
Attribution33 itemsEmotional and social intelligence - AC - Assessment Center exercises (method)
Multi-exercise behavioural simulation of job demands - in-basket/in-tray, leaderless group discussion, role-play, oral presentation, case analysis, fact-finding - scored on competency dimensions by trained assessors.
Mixedn/a (multiple exercises x competency dimensions, behaviourally coded)Work: selection, leadership and performance - AQoL - Assessment of Quality of Life
Multi-attribute utility HRQoL with strong psychosocial coverage; AQoL-8D dimensions: Independent Living, Pain, Senses, Mental Health, Happiness, Coping, Relationships, Self-Worth
RestrictedAQoL-4D 12; AQoL-6D 20; AQoL-8D 35Health, quality of life and health psychology - ASP - Assessment of Sadistic Personality
Subclinical/everyday sadism: pleasure from subjugation, humiliation, intimidation, aggression; low empathy
Attribution9 (ASP); 8 (ASP-8 revised)Personality: dark traits and pathology - AQLQ - Asthma Quality of Life QuestionnaireLength: 25 to 60
Asthma-specific HRQoL - symptoms, activity limitation, emotional function, environmental stimuli
Restricted32 itemsHealth, quality of life and health psychology - AQS - Attachment Q-Set
Secure-base behaviour of the child toward the caregiver in the home, scored as a continuous security criterion rather than a category.
Attribution90 (Q-sort items)Developmental, child, family and couple - ASQ (attachment) - Attachment Style QuestionnaireLength: 25 to 60
Adult attachment across 5 dimensions: Confidence (secure), Discomfort with Closeness, Need for Approval, Preoccupation with Relationships, Relationships as Secondary; usable with people not in a relationship
Attribution40 itemsDevelopmental, child, family and couple - ACS - Attentional Control ScaleLength: 10 to 24
Self-reported voluntary attentional control - focusing (sustaining attention, resisting distraction) and shifting (flexibly switching attention between tasks)
Attribution20 itemsSelf-regulation and positive traits - ATLG - Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Scale
Sexual prejudice - attitudes toward lesbians (ATL) and toward gay men (ATG) as separate but correlated subscales
Attribution20 (10 ATL + 10 ATG); ATLG-S short form 10; ATLG-R revised wordingValues, attitudes, ideology and morality