Form: Janis-Field Feelings of Inadequacy Scale

1. How often do you feel inferior to most of the people you know?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
2. How often do you have the feeling that there is nothing you can do well?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
3. When in a group of people, do you have trouble thinking of the right things to talk about?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
4. How often do you feel worried or bothered about what other people think of you?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
5. In turning in a major assignment such as a term paper, how often do you feel you did an excellent job on it?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
6. How confident are you that others see you as being physically appealing?
Very Confident
Fairly Confident
Slightly Confident
Not Very Confident
Not Confident At All
7. Do you ever think that you are a worthless individual?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
8. How much do you worry about how well you get along with other people?
Very
Fairly
Slightly
Not Very
Not at all
9. When you make an embarrassing mistake or have done something that makes you look foolish, how long does it take you to get over it?
A very long time
Fairly
Slightly
Not Very
Not long at all
10. When you have to read an essay and understand it for a class assignment, how worried or concerned do you feel about it?
Very Concerned
Fairly Concerned
Slightly Concerned
Not Very Concerned
Not Concerned at All
11. Compared with classmates, how often do you feel you must study more than they do to get the same grades?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
12. Have you ever thought of yourself as physically uncoordinated?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
13. How confident do you feel that someday the people you know will look up to you and respect you?
Very Confident
Fairly Confident
Slightly Confident
Not Very Confident
Not Confident At All
14. How often do you worry about criticisms that might be made of your work by your teacher or employer?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
15. Do you often feel uncomfortable meeting new people?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
16. When you have to write an argument to convince your teacher, who may disagree with your ideas, how concerned or worried do you feel about it?
Very Concerned
Fairly Concerned
Slightly Concerned
Not Very Concerned
Not Concerned at All
17. Have you ever felt ashamed of your physique or figure?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
18. Have you ever felt inferior to most other people in athletic ability?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
19. Do you ever feel so discouraged with yourself that you wonder whether you are a worthwhile person?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
20. Do you ever feel afraid or anxious when you are going into a room by yourself where other people have already gathered and are talking?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
21. How often do you worry whether other people like to be with you?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
22. How often do you have trouble expressing your ideas when you have to put them into writing as an assignment?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
23. Do you often feel that most of your friends or peers are more physically attractive than yourself?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
24. When involved in sports requiring physical coordination, are you often concerned that you will not do well?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
25. How often do you dislike yourself?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
26. How often do you feel self-conscious?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
27. How often are you troubled with shyness?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
28. How often do you have trouble understanding things you read for class assignments?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
29. Do you often wish or fantasize that you were better-looking?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
30. Have you ever thought that you lacked the ability to be a good dancer or do well at recreational activities involving coordination?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
31. In general, how confident do you feel about your abilities?
Very Confident
Fairly Confident
Slightly Confident
Not Very Confident
Not Confident At All
32. How much do you worry about whether other people regard you as a success or failure in your job or at school?
Very
Fairly
Slightly
Not Very
Not at all
33. When you think that some of the people you meet might have an unfavorable opinion of you, how concerned or worried do you feel about it?
Very Concerned
Fairly Concerned
Slightly Concerned
Not Very Concerned
Not Concerned at All
34. How often do you imagine that you have less scholastic ability than your classmates?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
35. Have you ever been concerned or worried about your ability to attract members of the opposite sex?
Very Often
Fairly Often
Sometimes
Once in a Great While
Practically Never
36. When trying to do well at a sport and you know other people are watching, how rattled or flustered do you get?
Very Flustered
Fairly Flustered
Slightly Flustered
Not Very Flustered
Not Flustered At All

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