HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How How Socially Confident Am I? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Social confidence means feeling able to handle social situations, like meeting new people and speaking up. Research finds that people expect talks with strangers to go worse than they do (Epley and Schroeder, 2014), that people like us more after a chat than we think (Boothby and others, 2018), that asking follow-up questions makes us more liked (Huang and others, 2017), and that others notice our slip-ups less than we fear (Gilovich and others, 2000). Confidence grows from small successes (Bandura, 1997).
This test looks at five areas: meeting new people, making small talk, joining groups, speaking up, and handling awkward moments. Each area has eight sentences. Four describe confidence and four describe the opposite. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points. Each area score runs from 0 to 100, and your overall score is the average of the five.
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. It cannot tell you if you have social anxiety or any other condition. Do not use it to hire, fire, or judge people.
Social confidence can change with the setting, the people, and how you feel that day. Ideas about social behavior also differ across cultures. A lower score does not mean something is wrong with you.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.