Please answer the following questions by deciding to what extent each item is characteristic of your feelings and behavior. Fill in the blank next to each item by choosing a number from this scale:

1 = very uncharacteristic or untrue, strongly disagree 
2 = uncharacteristic 
3 = neutral 
4 = characteristic 
5 = very characteristic or true, strongly agree 

	___ I can become entirely absorbed in thinking about my personal affairs, my health, my cares or my relations to others.

	___ My feelings are easily hurt by ridicule or the slighting remarks of others.

	___ When I enter a room I often become self-conscious and feel that the eyes of others are upon me.

	___ I dislike sharing the credit of an achievement with others.

	___ I feel that I have enough on my hand without worrying about other people’s troubles.

	___ I feel that I am temperamentally different from most people.

	___ I often interpret the remarks of others in a personal way.

	___ I easily become wrapped up in my own interests and forget the existence of others.

	___ I dislike being with a group unless I know that I am appreciated by at least one of those present.

	___ I am secretly “put out” or annoyed when other people come to me with their troubles, asking me for their time and sympathy.

	___ I am jealous of good-looking people.

	___ I tend to feel humiliated when criticized.

	___ I wonder why other people aren’t more appreciative of my good qualities.

	___ I tend to see other people as being either great or terrible.


	___ I sometimes have fantasies about being violent without knowing why.

	___ I am especially sensitive to success and failure.

	___ I have problems that nobody else seems to understand.

	___ I try to avoid rejection at all costs.


	___ My secret thoughts, feelings, and actions would horrify some of my friends.

	___ I tend to become involved in relationships in which I alternately adore and despise the other person.

	___ Even when I am in a group of friends, I often feel very alone and uneasy.

	___ I resent others who have what I lack.

	___ Defeat or disappointment usually shame or anger me, but I try not to show it.