Form: Existential Concerns Questionnaire, ECQ

Existential Concerns Questionnaire, ECQ
1 – Never
2 – Seldom
3 – Sometimes
4 – Often
5 – Always
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The question of whether life has meaning makes me anxious.
2
It frightens me when I realize how many choices life offers.
3
I worry about not being at home in the world, as if I do not belong here.
4
Existence feels threatening to me, as if at any moment something terrible could happen to me.
5
It frightens me that at some point in time I will be dead.
6
I worry about the meaning of life.
7
I try to forget that all my choices have consequences.
8
I get anxious because of losing touch with myself.
9
I struggle with the feeling that in the end I am on my own in life.
10
It makes me anxious that my life is passing by.
11
When the question of whether life has meaning enters my mind, I try to think quickly about something else.
12
I worry about not living the life that I could live.
13
The awareness that other people will never know me at the deepest level frightens me.
14
I worry that, out of the blue, something terrible might happen to me.
15
I try to push away the thought that life will end.
16
It frightens me that things I once considered important seem meaningless when I look back on them.
17
I am afraid that I do not get out of life what is in it.
18
I try to avoid the question of who I really am.
19
I have the anxious feeling that there is a gap between me and other people.
20
I become anxious when I realize how vulnerable my body is to the dangers of life.
21
I worry about having to let go of everything at the moment of my death.
22
I am afraid that I will never know myself at the deepest level.