Form: Maudsley Personality Inventory, MPI

Maudsley Personality Inventory, MPI
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Yes
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No
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Are you inclined to limit your acquaintances to a select few?
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Do you prefer action to planning for action?
3
Do you always have a «ready answer» for remarks directed at you?
4
Are your daydreams frequently about things that can never came true?
5
As a child, did you always do as you were told, immediately and without grumbling?
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Are you inclined to be quick and sure in your actions?
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Do you have difficulty in making new friends?
8
Do you sometimes put off until tomorrow what you ought to do today?
9
Are you inclined to take your work casually, that is, as a matter of course?
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Do you often feel disgruntled?
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Are you inclined to ponder over your past?
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If you say you will do something, do you always keep your promise no matter how inconvenient it might be to do so?
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Do you like to mix socially with people?
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Are you inclined to be shy in the presence of the opposite sex?
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Do you sometimes get cross?
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Do you often experience periods of loneliness?
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Are you touchy on various subjects?
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Do you often find that you have made up your mind too late?
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Are you completely free of prejudice of any kind?
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Are you inclined to be overconscientious?
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Do you often «have a time of your life» at social affaiia?
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Do you ever change from happiness to sadness, or vice versa, without good reason?
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Do you like to play pranks upon others?
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Do you sometimes laugh at a dirty joke?
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Does your mind often wander while you are trying to concentrate?
26
Would you rate yourself as a tense or «high-strung» individual?
27
After a critical moment is over, do you usually think of something you should have done but failed to do?
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Would you much rather win, than lose a game?
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Do you find it easy, as a rule, to make new acquaintances?
30
Do you ever have a queer feeling that you are not your old self?
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Do you ever take your work as if it were a matter of life or death?
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Are you frequently «lost in thought» even when supposed to be taking part in a conversation?
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Do you always feel genuinely pleased when a bitter enemy achieves a merited success?
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Do you derive more real satisfaction from social activities than from anything else?
35
Do ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep?
36
Do you sometimes boast a little?
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Can you usually let yourself go and have an hilariously good time at a gay party?
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Do you like to indulge in a reverie (daydreaming)?
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Have you often felt Listless and tired for no good reason?
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Are all your habits good and desirable ones?
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Are you inclined to keep quiet when out in a social group?
42
Are you sometimes bubbling over with energy and sometimes very sluggish?
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Do you always answer a personal letter as soon as you can after you have read it?
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Would you rate yourself as a talkative individual?
45
Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like other people to know about?
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Would you be very unhappy if you were prevented from making numerous social contacts?
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Are you happiest when you get involved in some project that calls for rapid action?
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Do you spend much time in thinking over good times you have had in the past?
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Do you sometimes talk about things you know nothing about?
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Have you ever been bothered by having a useless thought come into your mind repeatedly?
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Do other people regard you as a lively individual?
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Do you sometimes gossip?
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Do you usually keep in fairly uniform spirits?
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Are your feelings rather easily hurt?
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At times, have you ever told a lie?
56
Do you generally prefer to take the lead in group activities?
57
Would you rate yourself as a happy-go-lucky individual?
58
Have you money worries at times?
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Do you have periods of such great restlessness that you cannot sit long in a chair?
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Are you usually a «good mixer»?
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Would you rate yourself as a lively individual?
62
Have you ever been late for an appointment or work?
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Do you ever feel «just miserable» for no good reason at all?
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Are you often troubled with feelings of guilt?
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Are you inclined to be moody?
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Do you like to have many social engagements?
67
Once in a while, do you lose your temper and get angry?
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Do you sometimes feel happy, sometime8 depressed, without any apparent reason?
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Is it difficult to «lose yourself» even at a lively party?
70
Are you ordinarily a carefree individual?
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Do you have frequent ups and downs in mood, either with or without apparent cause?
72
Would you always declare everything at the Customs, even if you know that you could never be found out?
73
Do you like work that requires considerable attention to details?
74
Are there times when you seek to be alone and you cannot bear the company of anyone?
75
Are you inclined to keep in the background on social occasions?
76
Have you often lost sleep over your worries?
77
Of all the people you know are there some whom you definitely do not like?
78
Do you usually feel disappointments so keenly that you cannot get them out of your mind?
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Do you usually take the initiative in making new friends?
80
Do you enjoy participating in a showing of «Rah Rah» enthusiasm.