Assessment Report
Need to Belong Scale — Sample Profile
Your Scores
Each bar shows where your responses fall on the 5-point scale, expressed as a percentage of the possible range.
Need to Belong stands in the higher range (100%) — your answers lean clearly toward this end of the scale.
Well above average — 99th percentile compared with the reference sample (N = 118). 90% confidence range: 96th–99th percentile.
Where you fall relative to the population — a normative comparison, not a diagnostic indicator.
What this means
Your overall standing on Need to Belong is in the higher range (100%). This is a within-person self-reflection summary, not a clinical diagnosis.
About This Measure
A 10-item measure of the fundamental human motivation to form and maintain enduring, positive interpersonal relationships.
Source & attribution: Leary, M.R., Kelly, K.M., Cottrell, C.A., & Schreindorfer, L.S. (2013). Construct validity of the Need to Belong Scale: Mapping the nomological network. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(6), 610–624.