Sexual Orientation Beliefs Test (SOBS)
Measure your beliefs about the nature and origins of sexual orientation
What do you believe about the nature of sexual orientation — is it innate, or socially constructed? The SOBS measures your beliefs across 4 dimensions: naturalness, discreteness, group entitativity, and importance. 15 items, about 7 minutes.
What Do You Believe About Sexual Orientation?
The Sexual Orientation Beliefs Scale (SOBS) measures how people think about sexual orientation — whether they see it as fixed or fluid, binary or continuous, and what they believe about its origins. Arseneau, Grzanka, Miles, and Fassinger published it in 2013. Twelve items, and it takes about 5 minutes.
Scoring Guide
Each subscale is scored as the mean of its items (1-7). No reverse-scored items. The 4 dimensions are interpreted independently; no total score is computed.Result Interpretation
Finish the 15 questions and you get your results straight away — no account, no sign-up, no waiting.
We calculate your total from your answers, then give you a plain-language explanation of what the numbers mean. Where a test has sub-scales, each dimension gets its own score. Whenever possible, we also show how your results compare to population norms.
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