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
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