Psychologists Book: Self Tests
 

OK guys, I have this book called "The Psychologist's Book of Self-Tests" by Loouis Janda PH.D. This book contains many tests that can reveal alot about who you are. I thought it might be fun to post some of these tests here.

I'll start with the "How Rational is Your View of the World" test.

Directions for this test: For each of the following questions, please use the following guide to indicate which most clearly reflects your opinion. Work quickly and answer each question.

5=Stongly Disagree
4=Disagree
3=Neutral
2=Agree
1=Strongly Agree

1. Helping others is the basis of life.
2. It is necessary to be especially friendly to new colleagues and neighbors.
3. People should observe moral laws more strictly than they do.
4. I find it difficult to take criticism without feeling hurt.
5. I often spend more time trying to think of ways of getting out of things than it would to take me to do them.
6. I tend to become terribly upset snd miserable when things are not the way I like them to be.
7. It is impossible at any given time to change one's emptions.
8. It is sinful to doubt The Bible.
9. Sympathy is the most beautiful human emotion.
10. I shrink from facing a crisis or difficulty
11. I often get excited or upset when things go wrong.
12. One should rebel against doing things, however necessary, if doing them is unpleasant.
13. I get upset when neighbors are very harsh with their children.
14. It is realistic to expect that there should be no incompatibility in marriage.
15. I frequently feel unhappy with my appearance.
16. A person should be thoroughly competent, adequate, talented, and intelligent in all possible respects.
17. What others think of you is most important.
18. Other people should make things easier for us, and help with life's difficulties.
19. I tend to look to others for the kind of behavior they approve as right or wrong.
20. I find that my occupation and social life tend to make me unhappy.
21. I usually try to avoid doing chores that I dislike doing.
22. Some of my family and/or friends have habits that bother and annoy me very much.
23. I tend to worry about possible accidentsand disasters.
24. I like to bear responsibility alone.
25. I get terribly upset and miserable when things are not the way I like them.
26. I worry quite a bit over misfortunes,
27, Punishing oneself for all errors will prevent future mistakes.
28. One can best help others by criticizing them and sharply pointing out the error of their ways.
29. Worrying about a possible danger will help ward it off or decrease its effects.
30. I worry about little things.
31. Certain people are bad, wicked, or villainous and should be severely blamed and punished for their sins.
32. A large number of people are guilty of bad sexual conduct.
33. One should blame oneself severely for all mistakes and wrongdoings.
34. It makes me very uncomfortable to be different.
35. I worry over possible misfortunes.
36. I prefer to be independent of others in making decisions.
37. Because a certain thing once strongly affected one's life, it should indefinitely affect it.


Keep track of your scores and I'll post what they mean in a week.

My score is 140 :rolleyes:

5 SD = 25
19 D = 76
0 N = 0
11 A = 12
2 S = 2
___________+

125

My score was 122.

103; lowest so far, it appears. Oh boy. I'll bet it means I'm a fascist or something. :D

I got 124

i got 132

A racist fascist, you mean. ;D

Okay, now I'm starting to wonder if I need to re-read the questions… :D

r66, are you really going to make us wait a week to find out if we’re “rational” or not… ;)

Yeah, do tell!

109.... low compared to everyone else. Not too far off from Yoda.

Ok guys. Patience.

Hopefully you kept the numbers you wrote down for each question. If you didn't, try to remember them--jot them down somewhere. Scoring this test is a little complicated.

The authors of this scale have developed what they call a "cutting" scores. If the number you used for an item is equal to or greater than the cutting score, give yourself 1 point for that item. If the number you used is less than the cutting score, give yourself a 0 for that item. For example, if you used either a 4 or 5 for item 1, then you would give yourself 1 point for this item. If you used a 1, 2, or 3, then you would score this item as a 0. The cutting scores for the items are thus:

1: 4
2: 4
3: 3
4: 4
5: 3
6: 3
7: 3
8: 3
9: 4
10: 3
11: 3
12: 3
13: 4
14: 3
15: 4
16: 4
17: 3
18:3
19: 3
20: 3
21: 4
22: 4
23: 3
24: 4
25: 3
26: 3
27: 3
28: 3
29: 3
30: 4
31: 4
32: 3
33: 3
34: 3
35: 3
36: 3
37: 3

One last thing you must do before calculating your total score. Items 24 and 36 are reverse scored, so if you gave yourself a 1 for either of these items, change it to 0. If you gave yourself a 0, change it to a 1. After doing this, add all the 1's together for your final score.

If your still interested, post that score here and I'll write what it means.

O.k did that too, now I've got a score of...

24

Why do I feel like posting this is a bad idea? http://www.moviejustice.com/forums/h...s/banghead.gif

Lost me, didn't keep the original scores, not that interested now. :(

Ditto.... maybe later.

Om, perhaps bri' added wrong. But here is what the book says about the final score:

Score: 22 Percentile: 15
Score: 24 Percentile:30
Score 26 Percentile: 50
Score: 28 Percentile 70
Score: 30 Percentile 85

"People with high scores on this scale are likely to be rational and logical in their view of the world. People with low scores are likely to accept a variety of assertions from others uncritically."

That's it :rolleyes:

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EDIT: Any more tests r66... :)