Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS)
How strong is your support network? The SSRS looks at three dimensions of social support - subjective support, objective support, and support utilization. 14 questions, about 5 minutes.
How supported do you feel? Not just emotionally, but practically - when you are in a tight spot, do you have people you can count on?
The SSRS measures three sides of social support:
- Subjective Support: how much support you feel you get from friends, neighbors, colleagues, and family
- Objective Support: what support resources are actually available to you (living arrangements, people who can provide material and emotional help)
- Support Utilization: whether you actually reach out when you need it
The raw truth: social support is one of those things you don't notice until it is gone. If your scores come back low, it does not mean something is wrong with you - but isolation has real health consequences, and it is worth paying attention to.
This test is for self-reflection only and does not constitute a clinical assessment.
Result Interpretation
Finish the 14 questions and you get your results straight away — no account needed, nothing to sign up for.
- Your score is calculated from your answers.
- What it means — a plain-language breakdown of where you fall.
- Context where available, compared against population norms.