Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Personality and Life Satisfaction Survey! In this study we will ask you to complete a variety of questionnaires concerning your emotions, beliefs, goals, attitudes, and experiences. Your participation in this project is voluntary, and you do not have to answer any questions you do not want to answer. This project is not expected to involve risks greater than those ordinarily encountered in daily life. Although it is not possible to identify all potential risks in the study, all reasonable safeguards have been taken to minimize any potential risks.
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IF YOU DECIDE TO STOP taking the survey at any time, please remember to close your browser. What is your ethnic category? What is your APPROXIMATE FAMILY INCOME? If you are American, whom do you, or did you, prefer: Bush or Kerry? What is your citizenship? Please type in a country. INSTRUCTIONS: This is a grant-funded study of feelings, attitudes, and values. We will ask you many questions about yourself, which you will hopefully find to be interesting and stimulating. Please take the questions seriously! But do not obsess too long over any one question just give your first response, after you understand the question. Also, please follow all instructions, and be as open and honest as possible in your responding -- we are not interested in individual responses, only group patterns. Also, please do not to leave any questions blank make your best guess if youre not sure!
Below are a number of different feelings and emotions. For each feeling, please indicate how much and how often you feel this way in general in your life . Please rate your agreement with each statement right now in your life .
Please rate your agreement with the statements below, based on how you feel right now.
| very slightly or not at all | | | | | 30. I judge myself by what I think is important, not by the values of what others think is important. | | | | | | | 31. I am quite good at mastering the many responsibilities of my daily life. | | | | | | | 32. I have given up trying to make big improvements or changes in my life. | | | | | | | 33. I have not experienced many warm and trusting relationships with others. | | | | | | | 34. I sometimes feel as I've done all there is to do in life. | | | | | | | 35. In many ways, I feel disappointed about my achievements in life. | | | | | | | 36. I have confidence in my own opinions, even if they are contrary to the general consensus. | | | | | | | 37. The demands of everyday life often get me down. | | | | | | | 38. For me, life has been a continuous process of learning, changing, and growth. | | | | | | | 39. People would describe me as a giving person, willing to share my time with others. | | | | | | | | very slightly or not at all | | | | | 40. Some people wander aimlessly through life, but I am not one of them. | | | | | | | 41. I like most aspects of my personality. | | | | | | | 42. I tend to be influenced by people with strong opinions. | | | | | | | 43. In general, I feel I am in charge of the situation in which I live. | | | | | | | 44. I think it is important to have new experiences that challenge how you think about yourself and your world. | | | | | | | 45. Maintaining close relationships has been difficult and frustrating for me. | | | | | | | 46. I live life one day at a time and don't really think about the future. | | | | | | | 47. When I look at the story of my life, I am pleased with how things have turned out. | | | | | | |
In my life. Please read each of the following items carefully, thinking about how it relates to your life, and then indicate how true it is for you.
In my life,
In my life (cont.) Please continue indicating how true the following items are for you.
In my life,
Personality traits. Here are a number of personality traits that may or may not apply to you. Please indicate how much each pair of traits applies to you. You should rate the extent to which the pair of traits applies to you, even if one characteristic applies more strongly than the other.
More trait adjectives. Here are some more trait adjectives. Please rate the extent to which each applies to you.
103. Area 1: School/Work/Vocation
104. Area 2: Family/Relationships
105. Area 3: Health/Fitness
106. Area 4: Personal growth/development Now here are some questions about your four goals.
How well have you done in the past in pursuing each of these goals? How much progress are you currently making in each of these goals? How well do you expect to do in the future in pursuing each goal? Reasons for goals.
Below are four possible reasons for pursuing goals. Please rate why you are pursuing each of your goals, in terms of each reason.
REASON 1. To what extent are you pursuing each goal because you feel you have to-- because the situation demands it, or somebody important wants you to do it? REASON 2. To what extent are you pursuing each goal because you are forcing yourself-- because you would feel guilty, anxious, or ashamed of yourself if you didn't? REASON 3. To what extent are you pursuing each goal because you wholeheartedly want to pursue it-- because you identify with it, even when its not fun and enjoyable?
REASON 4. To what extent are you pursuing each goal because of the enjoyment or stimulation that it provides you-- because it is intrinsically interesting and challenging? This section contains feelings you might have about yourself. Please rate your agreement with each statement about you.
145. "My most desired possible self is________." 146. "My most feared possible self is_______."
HOW CLOSE ARE YOU ALREADY, to each possible self? That is, to what extent are you already like this self?
How LIKELY is it that each self will come to be? That is, how probable is it that you will become each self in the future?
To what extent do you feel that you can CONTROL whether or not you will become each self? That is, to what extent do you feel you have the ability to successfully approach (or avoid approaching) each possible self?
SOCIAL SUPPORT. The next section asks about people in your environment who provide you with help or support. Each question has two parts. For the first part, think of the names of all the people you know, excluding yourself, whom you can really count on for help or support in the manner described. Count them up, and bubble in the correct number. For the second part, rate how satisfied you are with the overall support these people give you in this area. PERCEPTIONS OF PERSON 1. The following questions concern person 1s way of being with you. PERCEPTIONS OF PERSON 2. The following questions concern person 2s way of being with you. As you may have noticed, the previous questions focused on four important areas of life:
1) your personality traits and habits, 2) your personal goals and values, 3) your self-images and self-concept, and 4) your social support and personal relationships. We wanted to know how things stand, for you, within each area.
Now, wed like to look across areas, to learn how each area of your life relates to each other area. The question is, how does the general situation or status quo in each area affect the general situation or status quo in each other area?
Here are definitions of each area:
TRAITS: your habitual ways of acting and reacting in the world (e.g., extraverted, quiet, anxious, active, disorganized).
GOALS: your conscious values, purposes, and objectives (e.g., your school/work goal, your family/relationships goal).
SELVES: the dominant self-images and self-concepts you live inside (e.g., your desired/feared selves).
IMMEDIATE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: your primary personal relationships and social network.
First, please rate whether each area of your life is consistent or inconsistent with each other area. Does each particular area of your life, taken as a whole, tend to harmonize with, or instead to clash with, each other area? The first few items focus on your habitual personality traits. How consistent or inconsistent is the way you typically behave in life with the other elements of your life? For example, a restless and high energy person may find it hard to sit still for the hours needed to meet a goal of being a successful writer.
How consistent are your PERSONALITY TRAITS with...
How consistent are your GOALS AND OBJECTIVES with... How consistent is your SELF IMAGE with... Next, we would like to know whether each area of your life has a positive or a negative impact upon each other area. Negative impact means that the area works against or undermines the other area (i.e., the trait of restlessness undermines a writing goal), and positive impact means that the two areas support or strengthen each other (i.e., agreeableness makes social relationships easier). Note that the impact goes in both directions, and we ask you to rate them each way. First focus again on your personality traits and personal habits and behaviors. How much impact do your PERSONALITY TRAITS have on... How much impact do your GOALS AND OBJECTIVES have on... How much impact does your SELF-IMAGE AND CONCEPT have on... How much impact do your RELATIONSHIPS and SOCIAL NETWORKS have on... Life practices. This next section is about your everyday life practices. These are a variety of things that people do (or try to do), to a greater or lesser extent in life, in order to do well and be happy. Please rate the extent you strive to
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| | | | | | 196. Satisfy your basic bodily needs. | | | | | | | 197. Develop and use your innate social and cognitive abilities. | | | | | | | 198. Satisfy your psychological needs in the process of living. | | | | | | | 199. Help create a rich society via spiritual communion, dancing, music-making, joking, and/or athletic competition. | | | | | | | 200. Become more extraverted and enthusiastic in life. | | | | | | | 201. Become more dependable and self-disciplined in life. | | | | | | | 202. Become more creative and open to new experiences in life. | | | | | | | 203. Become more sympathetic and warm in life. | | | | | | | 204. Become less critical and quarrelsome in life. | | | | | | | 205. Change your activities and behaviors, rather than your external circumstances, to try to become happier. | | | | | | | | | | | | | 206. Set and pursue goals, as effectively as possible. | | | | | | | 207. Develop greater organization in your behavior and goal system. | | | | | | | 208. Pursue goals involving intimacy, community and growth, rather than goals involving money, fame, and beauty. | | | | | | | 209. Pursue goals because you believe in them, rather than because you have to do them. | | | | | | | 210. Construct and develop a meaningful life-story. | | | | | | | 211. Successfully project yourself to other selves. | | | | | | | 212. Use your future self-images to guide your current goal-setting. | | | | | | | 213. Be in touch with yourself. | | | | | | | 214. Be nice in new situations. | | | | | | | 215. Punish those who exploit you when youre nice. | | | | | | | | | | | | | 216. Forgive them when they return to cooperation. | | | | | | | 217. Make occasional overtures when you are fighting with someone. | | | | | | | 218. Avoid exploiting those who seem to tolerate it. | | | | | | | 219. Choose companions who will support you and cooperate with you. | | | | | | | 220. Perform your social roles as well as possible. | | | | | | |
Life practices (cont.) As in the previous section, please continue to rate the extent you strive to do the following.
| | | | | | 221. Choose and enter social roles that best fit your personality characteristics. | | | | | | | 222. Do your best to internalize ill-fitting roles, and make them a part of yourself. | | | | | | | 223. Be supportive and provide choice when encouraging others to adopt social roles. | | | | | | | 224. Adapt to your cultures norms and prescriptions. | | | | | | | 225. Go against the societal grain when it seems necessary. | | | | | | | 226. Draw from both self-oriented and group-oriented mentalities, as needed. | | | | | | | 227. Serve something beyond yourself, i.e., social, cultural, or spiritual goals. | | | | | | | 228. Recognize your place in the larger scheme of things. | | | | | | | 229. Think about the larger systems in which you are a part. | | | | | | | 230. Work towards balance dont sacrifice important feelings to get other important feelings. | | | | | | | | | | | | | 231. Focus on obtaining many different kinds of positive feelings and satisfactions. | | | | | | | 232. Try to make choices that let you feel connected to others, and do things by your own choice, and be good at what you do. | | | | | | | 233. Be prepared to work against (or to try to modify) problematic aspects of yourself or your world. | | | | | | | 234. Take action to make necessary changes in yourself or your environment. | | | | | | | 235. Dont settle for the status quo, in either yourself or the world, if the status quo is wrong. | | | | | | | 236. Take full responsibility for your goals and choices. | | | | | | | 237. Do what you said you would do, no matter what. | | | | | | | 238. Stand firmly behind your intentions otherwise, you have no personal power. | | | | | | | 239. Listen to your inner voice and be prepared to revise your goals and beliefs if it seems necessary. | | | | | | | 240. Be attentive to subtle signals inside yourself, that might guide you to change your prior choices. | | | | | | | | | | | | | 241. Listen to your conscience and modify your approach if it is wrong. | | | | | | |
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