PsyToolkit’s survey library

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• Introduction
• Using the code
• Your responsibility
• Scales for …​
  • Adults
  • Specific adult groups
  • Children/adolescents

  Introduction

  PsyToolkit can run online surveys. Here you can find ready-to-run surveys of psychological scales.

  This library has now over a 100 peer-reviewed scales that you can try yourself. Each scale comes with detailed background information! Scales are listed below with handy symbols.

  Try them all and compare your own scores to those of others.
  

  For each survey in this library, you can do two types of things:

  1. Learn about various psychological scales.
  • Try the test and see how you score
  • Background, links and references for further reading
  • You can learn from looking at the scripts how to develop your own questionnaires, and collect data online
  • You can copy and paste the code to your own PsyToolkit surveys
  • You can change the questionnaires using the flexible PsyToolkit survey scripting language

  You can embed reaction time experiments in your surveys. You can simply download (and modify if you wish) workable experiments from the experiment library.

  Using the code

  You can learn about the questionnaires and test the questionnaires and see your own scores without having a PsyToolkit account.

  Here are the steps to take if you want to use the code in your own project:

  1. Make sure you have registered a (free) PsyToolkit account via www.psytoolkit.org.
  2. Go to your PsyToolkit account, and create a new survey (not an experiment, which is different!).
  3. Copy the survey code (provided for each scale) and follow instructions.
  4. If you want to use it, make sure you also enter information for participants, etc.

  There is a complete lesson about how to set up an online PsyToolkit survey study. Click here to go to the lesson.

  Your responsibility

  If you copy any of these surveys and use them for your own research, make sure that you read this:

  • Make sure you are not violating any copyrights. As far as the PsyToolkit developer (Dr. Gijsbert Stoet) is aware, all the surveys here can be used for study and research as long as acknowledge the original authors and paper (which will be listed for each survey). If you think a questionnaire here should not be listed here, please contact PsyToolkit.
  • PsyToolkit does its best to code surveys correctly, but takes no responsibility for any mistakes.
  • Make sure you always comply with ethics regulations of your institution. PsyToolkit is only a tool, you are responsible for its use and ethics approval yourself.

  Scales for …​

  Adults

  Normal psychological traits

  Particularly negative traits

  Related to love, sex, affection

  Particularly positive traits

  Related to mental health issues

  Related to religion/supernatural beliefs

  Difficulties in mental health

  Cognitive self assessment

  Specific adult groups

  People working in Alcoholics Anonymous programmes

  People with diabetes

  Children/adolescents

  Demographic questions

  When you run your own (online) questionnaire study, you typically will need to ask some demographic questions. For example, how old is the participant and what is their gender. Because these questions come back in so many surveys, there is a short survey that has a whole bunch of these questions ready to run and to choose from. Most likely, you need to adapt these to your specific study.

  Learn to develop your own scales

  Reading the background articles can help you to learn how to develop your own scales.

  Other useful libraries of scales

  • The measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences
  • Psychology Tools