HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How Am I a Good Friend? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
This test looks at being a good friend as a set of skills you can build. Research on friendship shows that friendships last when people keep them up: staying in touch, supporting each other, sharing openly, and spending time together (Oswald, Clark, and Kelly, 2004). Research also shows what people value most in friends, like loyalty, trust, and support (Hall, 2012).
This test looks at five areas: being reliable, listening well, give and take, being there in hard times, and honesty and loyalty. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe the skill and half describe the opposite, so you cannot get a high score just by agreeing with everything. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points.
Each area score runs from 0 to 100, and a higher score means stronger skills. Your overall score is the average of the five areas. Scores are read as Low (0 to 33), Medium (34 to 66), or High (67 to 100). These levels show how you answered. They do not compare you with other people.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning about yourself. It is not a diagnosis. Do not use it to judge anyone else.
People tend to rate themselves as good friends. Your friends may see you a little differently, so it can help to ask one you trust.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.