Psychology survey: Definition and best questions

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What do you mean by a psychology survey?

As the name suggests, psychology surveys are a series of questions asked to the respondents in order to understand their thought process and mental state. Psychological surveys bring out the various traits, behaviors and conditions in respondents that can affect their actions the most. Psychological surveys are used in many sectors of work like corporate, medical and health, recruitment firms and so on, whereas the survey is analyzed and created by psychologists, mental health professionals, psychiatrists, people from judicial systems and more who know about psychological beings.

Example: a psychologist wants to study what factors can cause employee’s depression problems. He then conducts a depression survey for the employees with questions helping them understand what causes behavior elevation in employees, their traits, lifestyle, work-life balance, and other factors. 

Psychology survey questions lets you know whether there are any suicidal tendencies between employees and will be able to derive meaningful actions to deal with them. Apart from this, psychology surveys also help the researchers studying psychology and help them collect relevant behavioral data indicating various traits and attitudes human beings possess. Such data will help them prove certain psychological assumptions, for example, color blue is said to develop trust in people. Hence, most banks and financial companies have blue in their logo. 

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Psychological survey questions

Questions based on demographics

  1. What is your gender?

Male 

Female 

Other 

Prefer not to say

  1. What is your age?
  2. What is your ethnicity?
  3. Which country have you spent most of your life in?
  4. What is your highest education qualification?

High school

College

Bachelor’s degree

Masters degree

PhD

Other 

  1. What is your employment status? 

Permanent full time

Non-permanent full time

Permanent part time

Non-permanent part time

Unemployed 

Retired 

Full Time student

Part time student

Other 

  1. What is your relationship status?

Single 

In a causal relationship

In a serious relationship

Unmarried 

Married 

Widowed 

Divorced 

Other 

  1. How many children do you have?

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General psychology survey questions

  1. On the scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest score, how happy do you consider yourself to be?
  2. Do you consider yourself happier than most of your colleagues and friends?

Yes 

No 

  1. How often do you feel lonely? 

Always 

Very often 

Sometimes 

Barely 

Never 

  1. How often do you feel depressed? 

Always 

Very often 

Sometimes 

Barely 

Never

  1. State your level of agreement with the following questions using “Totally agree, agree, neutral, disagree, totally disagree”

I am satisfied with my current life 

I am not worried about finances in my life currently

I am happy with the relationships in my life 

I am happy with my professional life 

  1. How often do you procrastinate on a daily basis?

Always 

Very often

Sometimes 

Rarely

Never 

  1. Is there anything else bothering you? 

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