1. My parents often showed me that they were proud of me.

1 / 50

2. When I was growing up, my family always attended the most important events in which I participated (e.g., plays, concerts, sports events).

2 / 50

3. My parents helped me to feel proud of myself.

3 / 50

4. My family taught me to believe in my talents.

4 / 50

5. I learned from my past to feel good about what I have accomplished.

5 / 50

6. I learned from my parents that mastery is all about believing in yourself.

6 / 50

7. My family taught that if I am failing at something, it usually has very little to do with bad luck.

7 / 50

8. My past history makes it easy for me to feel proud of the accomplishments of those close to me.

8 / 50

9. I easily express my pleasure in the achievements of others.

9 / 50

10. When I was growing up, there was lots of affection shown in my home.

10 / 50

11. My parents often showed me that they loved me.

11 / 50

12. As a child, I felt really accepted by most of my peers.

12 / 50

13. My family touched, hugged, and kissed other another a lot.

13 / 50

14. I came from a very emotionally expressive family.

14 / 50

15. My parents often said “I love you” to me when I was a child.

15 / 50

16. I feel comfortable expressing affection to those I care about.

16 / 50

17. From their actions I always knew I was important to my parents.

17 / 50

18. As a child, my preferences and interests really mattered to my parents.

18 / 50

19. My parents responded to my emotions when I was growing up.

19 / 50

20. I feel comfortable receiving affection from those I care about.

20 / 50

21. It’s easy for me to say “I love you” when I feel it.

21 / 50

22. I was afraid of my father’s anger.

22 / 50

23. It was hard for me to show my own anger to my parents.

23 / 50

24. I feel highly uncomfortable when people are angry with me.

24 / 50

25. I was taught as a child that anger is very similar to aggression.

25 / 50

26. I was afraid of my mother’s anger.

26 / 50

27. I can’t talk about my own anger with comfort.

27 / 50

28. My family generally believed that anger was a destructive emotion.

28 / 50

29. I try to avoid becoming angry.

29 / 50

30. Not too many people can tell when I am angry.

30 / 50

31. I will keep my anger controlled until I eventually blow up.

31 / 50

32. I often feel that my anger is out of control.

32 / 50

33. I’ve learned from my past that expressing anger is like throwing gasoline on an open flame.

33 / 50

34. I keep my sadness to myself.

34 / 50

35. Past experience has taught me that letting myself be sad is a waste of time.

35 / 50

36. I’m rarely sad.

36 / 50

37. My family taught me that feeling sadness was cowardly.

37 / 50

38. I learned as a child that expressing sadness just brought everyone else down.

38 / 50

39. I try quickly to get over being sad.

39 / 50

40. I am impatient with other people’s sad moods.

40 / 50

41. When I was a child, my loneliness wasn’t noticed by my parents.

41 / 50

42. No one can tell when I am sad.

42 / 50

43. I’ve learned through experience that there’s very little point in talking to others when I’m downhearted.

43 / 50

44. I hate being around sad people.

44 / 50

45. I could never openly express my worries and fears to my parents.

45 / 50

46. My parents believed that I should just get over my fears and not dwell on them.

46 / 50

47. As a child, I just wasn’t allowed to be afraid.

47 / 50

48. I was taught as a child to avoid thinking too much about my fears, because doing so could paralyze me into inaction.

48 / 50

49. I learned when I was young to keep going even when I was afraid.

49 / 50

50. My family taught me that exploring my fears would make me a wimp.

50 / 50

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