1. I have certain ideas on what I would want to be like, and in what areas I would like to be successful; and I try to realize these ideas as best I can.
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2. I feel happy within my family, and I think I can help my family members feel the same.
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3. I find fulfillment in the work I am engaged in or for which I am preparing myself.
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4. I find pleasure in my human relationships and in the activities related to them.
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5. There is a special activity that particularly interests me, about which I always want to learn more, and on which I work whenever I have the time.
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6. I find pleasure in experiences of certain kinds – arts, wonder of nature, etc. – and do not want to miss out on them.
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7. I believe in a religious or societal task, or one connected with human progress, and place myself at its disposal.
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8. When suffering, worry or sickness arise in my life, I make great efforts to improve the situation.
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How often have you had the following experiences lately?
The feeling of helpless anger because you thought that all you had done so far was in vain?
10. The wish to be a child again, and to be able to start all over again?
11. The observation that you try to present your life to yourself or others as being richer in content than it really is?
12. Reluctance to burden yourself with deep and possibly uncomfortable thoughts about your activities and deeds?
13. The mood of anxiety which overcomes you without any particular reason, and which causes an agonizing loss of interest in everything that comes up?
14. The thought that at the moment of death you would have to say to yourself, your life had not been worth living?