Permissions and copyright

Usage permission

If you would like to use the scale in your research, it is not necessary to ask for permission. You can freely use the scale without any cost.

If you are conducting a student research project and your teacher requires you to obtain usage consent from us, we hereby grant you explicit permission to use the scale in your research. Good luck with your project!

The scale and almost all contents of this site are published under the CC BY 4.0 license (unless otherwise noted). Therefore, you are free to use, adapt, and share the scale and its translations, even for commercial purposes. The only license condition: When republishing or adapting the scale or other content of this site, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Note that some translation documents have been published under other variants of Creative Commons licenses that may exclude republication for commercial usage, for example. If this is the case, we refer to the specific license on the translation page.