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The Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire

The SAOQ is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess the frequency with which
respondents experience outcomes related to the development of self-awareness. The
SAOQ identifies the main impacts of self-awareness on people’s day-to-day lives
(including work-related outcomes) and can be used to measure the specific effects of
self-awareness interventions or training programmes.

The full paper reporting on the development, reliability and validity of the questionnaire
is available here: http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1178/pdf

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-


NonCommercial 4.0 International License

You do not need special permission to use the SAOQ for research purposes, though I
would appreciate hearing about any results you obtain using the questionnaire. Feel free
to e-mail me with any questions about the use or interpretation of the SAOQ.

Please contact me if you wish to use the questionnaire for commercial purposes.

Anna Sutton
Email: anna.sutton@waikato.ac.nz

School of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
Instructions:

Below is a list of statements about your general experiences. Using the scale, please
indicate how frequently you experience or engage in each of them.

Never Rarely Occasionally Frequently Almost always N/A


1 2 3 4 5 N/A

There is no “right” or “wrong” answer as everyone is different, so simply answer


according to your own experience. (If you are not currently working, you may find a few
questions are not applicable to you. In this case, please choose the N/A response.)

1 2 3 4 5 N/A
1 I learn about myself and how I see the world
2 I understand my emotions
3 I am content with my work situation
4 I find it scary to try something new or step out of what I
know.
5 I focus on ways of amending my behaviour that would be
useful
6 I have fun
7 I recognise the stress and worry in my current work
8 I feel vulnerable
9 I reassess my own and others' responsibilities
10 I have compassion and acceptance for others
11 I see my work life as something I have power to affect
12 I feel my emotions deeply
13 I'm aware of my abilities and limitations
14 I am objective
15 I understand how I work within a team
16 I have had to revisit difficult past experiences
17 I "observe" myself
18 I understand myself well
19 I can “take a step back” from situations to understand
them better
20 I feel exposed
21 I feel generally positive about self-awareness
22 I am consistent in different situations or with different
people
23 I think about how my personality fits with my work role
24 I find making changes is difficult and scary
25 I have insight into myself
26 I stop and think before judging
27 I have changed the way I work
28 I feel guilty for criticising others
29 I look at why people act the way they do
30 I am confident
31 I take control of my work
32 I am continuing to work on and develop myself
33 I interact well with colleagues or peers
34 I think about how as colleagues or peers we interact with
each other
35 I am realistic about myself
36 I feel on the whole very comfortable with the way I am
37 I am reflective
38 I have a good self-image
Descriptives and norms

The SAOQ consists of 38 items measuring 4 subscales. In a UK sample (76% female, 77%
in full-time work), the following means, SDs and Cronbach alpha reliabilities were
obtained for each sub-scale:

Subscale No. items Mean SD α


Reflective self-development (RSD) 11 3.94 0.58 .87
Acceptance (Acc) 11 3.85 0.52 .83
Proactive at work (Pro) 9 3.74 0.68 .81
Emotional Costs 7 3.10 0.67 .77

Scoring

To score the SAOQ, calculate the mean for each scale using the following key:
(N/A responses should be left out of the calculation)

Higher scores represent a greater frequency of experienced outcomes.

Subscale Mean of items


Reflective self-development (RSD) 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 32, 35, 37
Acceptance (Acc) 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 33, 36, 38
Proactive at work (Pro) 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 34
Emotional Costs 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28

Citing the SAOQ

Sutton, A. (2016) Measuring the effects of self-awareness: Construction of the Self-


Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire, Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 12(4) pp. 645–658.
doi: 10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1178

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