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QUESTIONNAIRE - Page 9

The method of filling in the questions and of scoring is explained in the first page of the Questionnaire, Activity.

B - EMOTIONAL STABILITY

Trait 2 - HAPPINESS

  • Do you seem to have more than your share of bad luck?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you often feel depressed when you wake up in the mornings?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • In general, would you say that you are satisfied with your life?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you sometimes feel that you don't care what happens to you?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you derive a good deal of happiness from life?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you generally feel in good spirits?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you ever feel miserable for no apparent reason?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you see your future as looking quite bright?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • When things go wrong, do you wish you were dead?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you sometimes feel cheered-up by the misfortunes of others?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you smile and laugh as much as most people?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you feel that you often get a raw deal out of life?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you think that people really don't care what happens to you?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you find people frequently make you feel extremely frustrated or angry?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you often suffer from loneliness?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you think you are contributing to the world and living a useful life?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you find yourself grieving about things that have gone wrong in the past?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do other people's successes make you feel resentful?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Is there at least one person in the world who really loves you?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Would you agree that the world is too harsh a place to bring a small child into?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Have you been successful in working towards your goals and aims in life?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Are you easily overcome by sadness?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Does it seem to you that it is always other people who get the breaks?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you feel a sense of inner calm and contentment a lot of the time?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you sometimes feel lonely even when you are with other people?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you find a lot of things inspire you to action?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you sometimes wish you had no responsibilities?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you lie awake at night worrying about what's going to happen?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Do you frequently ponder about lost opportunities?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

  • Are you enthusiastic about the future?
    Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

  • Do you feel cheated when you look back at what has happened to you?
    Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:

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ANALYSIS

High emotional tone - cheerful enthusiasm - is a trait of emotional stability. Lowered emotional tone - if it is based on chronic upsets - leads to decreasing stability or "neuroticism" with self-defeating and usually inappropriate negative emotions such as hostility, anger, fear, grief, apathy.

Emotional tone is a reflection of the degree of survival - pleasure versus pain - in one's life (which extends to one's sexual and romantic life and the success of the groups with which one identifies). The more unfaced pain is stored up in the past, the easier that pain may be re-stimulated by new circumstances and cause one to be reactive (rather than conscious) in one's behavior.

Those with a high score on happiness are satisfied with their existence, find life rewarding and are at peace with the world. They are on top of things, emotionally stable, and do not take problems too seriously. For them life is full of challenges, like a game.

Those with low scores are characteristically pessimistic, gloomy and depressed, disappointed in their existence and at odds with the world - others are against them and serious problems abound. They tend to blame others rather than take responsibility for their own choices in life. The depressed person tends to be fearful, apathetic and ill, broken by spells of manic dramatization of rightness against supposed opponents.

How do you compare?

The norm on this trait is between 18-19 points (a statistical approximation). This may be represented on the following scale:

Happy 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 || 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Depressed

Continue to the next Trait: ANXIETY.

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