Evaluating - Improving Yourself

Are You Hooked on Approval?

Are you hooked on approval? Read each statement below. Circle “T” if the statement is true or mostly true, or circle “F” if the statement is false or mostly false.

How Much Do You Trust Yourself?

This quiz will help you identify how much you trust yourself vs. how much you doubt yourself. Give yourself a score of 0-5 for each question, where 0 means it doesn’t apply at all, and 5 means that it is often troublesome to you.

Are You a Worrier?

Note: This is the first of a two-part series.

Everyone worries from time to time, but to find out how severe a worrier you are, take the following quiz, adapted from Edward M. Hollowell’s book Worry (Random House). Give yourself 0 points if your answer is “rarely or not at all,” 1 point for “sometimes,” 2 points for “often,” and 3 points for “almost everyday.” The last five questions should be answered simply “yes” or “no,” with 3 points for each “yes” and 0 points for each “no.” Answer all the other questions on the 0-1-2 or 3 scale just described.

Are You a Relationship Caretaker?

re you a caretaker in your intimate relationship? Take this quiz to find out. Answer each question on a 1 to 5 scale: 1=rarely 2=occasionally 3=maybe half the time 4=often 5=virtually always

How Comfortable Are You With Yourself?

The following quiz is designed to measure how comfortable you are with yourself. To take the quiz, answer the following questions honestly:

How Comfortable are You in Receiving Love?

Below are questions designed to help you discover how comfortable you are in receiving love. Rank each item with S for “sometimes,” O for “often,” or R for “rarely” or N for “never.”

What Does Your Job Mean to You?

Here’s a list of questions to help you evaluate your job, adapted from John Gottman’s book “The Relationship Cure” (Crown). It will help you to think things out more completely if you write your answers down and are as thorough as possible:

What does your job mean to you? What does it mean to you to provide your service or product?

Are You Depressed?

Are you depressed? Depression does not necessarily mean you’re just sad. You might be more numb—not feeling much of anything—than sad.

But some people are in deed sad, withdrawn from others as well as from themselves, and withdrawn from most of the activities that used to bring them pleasure and enjoyment.

Take this quiz, adapted from W.W.K. Zung (Archives of General Psychiatry). Decide how much of the time each statement describes how you have been feeling during the past several days.

What Are Your Enduring Vulnerabilities?

The following exercise is designed to help you identify your emotional vulnerabilities. Check the columns that fit your present—or your past.

Parents Siblings Lovers Peers Close Friends Co-workers

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How Resilient Are You?

Think about how much each of the following statements describes you. Then write down a number from 1-10, with 10 representing “Describes me the most.”

I have: