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KNOW YOUR OWN MIND
Personality Questionnaire
By Peter Shepherd
© 1994 Tools for transformation
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KNOW YOUR OWN MIND
Personality Questionnaire
These pages provide the tools for a wide-ranging analysis of your personality, so you
can know yourself better. It will help you see yourself - your mental, emotional and
behavioural strengths and weaknesses - in a more objective light.
How you see yourself and how others see you may be quite different. It is hard to
be objective about oneself - after all, one is being oneself and therefore there is no
distance from which to view. The following Questionnaire is intended to provide this
objectivity. It is based on tried and tested principles, the result of research by
renowned Professor of human psychology, Hans Eysenck, and described in his
popular book ‘Know Your Own Personality’ published first in 1972. He had a clear
understanding of how introversion and extraversion, combined with the degree of
emotional stability and self-determinism, determine the personality traits that result in
much of an individual's behaviour. A description of his theory of personality traits is
given in the Appendix.
Eysenck, however, as a behavioural psychologist believed that personality, like
intelligence, is determined to a large extent by a person's genes and is unchangeable
beyond an effort to cover up negative traits through learned behaviour. On the
contrary, I have found that while one's genetic constitution is a significant factor
(particularly affecting the balance of neurotransmitter chemicals in the brain) and
environmental factors (such as upbringing, education, cultural conditioning and even
the quality of nutrition) are equally significant, in practice a tremendous amount can
be done by the individual to restructure their own personality and even to improve
intelligence. A lot can be done to improve brain chemistry and nutritional
deficiencies too! Exactly how such personal development can be achieved is
expounded in my online book Transforming the Mind:
Of most significance in the development of personality is an individual's experience,
both pleasurable and painful, in this lifetime, from birth onwards. And also, I have
found, the experience which is brought into this life from the prior existence of the
individual's spiritual essence. These experiences result in both positive and negative
learning: the acquisition of skills and understanding, and the acquisition of fixed ideas
and conditioning. This learning can be revised!
So the results of this Questionnaire should be seen as an instructive guide to your
present psychological make-up and an indication of areas of your life that you may
choose to transform by applying appropriate techniques of personal development.
The Questionnaire is grouped into Categories, each with a number of psychological
Traits. Each Trait is presented on a separate page.
Each page also contains the Scoring key for the questions of that Trait and an
Analysis of the resulting scores. Needless to say, the validity of the analysis will
depend on how candidly you filled in the Questionnaire!
TRAITS
Category A - INTROVERSION/EXTRAVERSION
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Page 1 - ACTIVITY
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Page 2 - SOCIABILITY
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Page 3 - RISK-TAKING
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Page 4 - IMPULSIVENESS
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Page 5 - EXPRESSIVENESS
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Page 6 - REFLECTIVENESS
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Page 7 - RESPONSIBILITY
Category B - EMOTIONAL STABILITY
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Page 8 - SELF-ESTEEM
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Page 9 - HAPPINESS
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Page 10 - ANXIETY
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Page 11 - OBSESSIVENESS
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Page 12 - INDEPENDENCE
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Page 13 - HYPOCHONDRIA
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Page 14 - GUILT
Category C - MASTERY/SYMPATHY
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Page 15 - AGGRESSIVENESS
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Page 16 - ASSERTIVENESS
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Page 17 - AMBITION
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Page 18 - MANIPULATION
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Page 19 - SENSATION-SEEKING
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Page 20 - DOGMATISM
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Page 21 - MASCULINITY/FEMININITY
Category D - SEXUALITY
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Page 22 - SEXUAL LIBIDO
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Page 23 - SEXUAL SATISFACTION
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Page 24 - SEXUAL PERMISSIVENESS
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Page 25 - SEXUAL STEREOTYPE
Category E - SOCIAL & POLITICAL ATTITUDES
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Page 26 - SOCIAL PERMISSIVENESS
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Page 27 - RACISM
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Page 28 - BELIEF
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Page 29 - SOCIALISM/CAPITALISM
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Page 30 - LIBERTARIANISM
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Page 31 - REACTIONISM
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Page 32 - PACIFISM
INSTRUCTIONS
It is important to note that throughout this questionnaire, the 'norm' represents what
a typical person's responses is likely to be. That doesn't mean the normal responses
are 'right' or 'correct'. High or low positions on a scale may represent neurosis if
your answers represent compulsions, obsessions or inhibitions, and you may want to
become more free in that area. But if they represent conscious choices in the way
you play the game of life, then of course, that's fine! A person relatively free from
cultural conditioning in an area of life is unlikely to be the same as the 'normal
person' who tends to be riddled with such conditioning.
The idea is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling
and behaving, not to indicate that any particular way is right or better than another.
The questions can be quite dogmatic and illiberal and therefore expose ways in
which you are a stereotyped product of your culture, or more liberated than the
norm or more neurotic than the norm, or just different - the interpretation is up to
you, the more honest the better!
It’s best to print out the questionnaire first, then work through the
questions, underlining the appropriate answer: either "Yes",
"Maybe" or "No". (The asterisks* and ‘Score:’ relate to the later
scoring.)
Answer as honestly as you can: there is no point in trying to "make yourself look
good" - that would be counter-productive.
An automatic-scoring version of this questionnaire is available online at Know
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When you have completed scoring the questionnaire, a picture will emerge from the
high or low scoring traits - it is up to you to make what you will of this picture,
perhaps learn some lessons, decide to do something about what you find, or be
happy you are the way you are. I hope you enjoy participating in the questionnaire
and that you will explore these issues further in Transforming the Mind, maybe go
on to resolve some of them with the New Life Course, then hopefully move on to
the Insight Project for a complete resolution of all the factors that inhibit personal
freedom and conscious awareness.
A - EXTRAVERSION/INTROVERSION
Trait 1 - ACTIVITY
Are you happiest when you get involved in some project that calls for
immediate and rapid activity?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Do you become restless when working at something and little action is
occurring?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
When climbing stairs do you usually take them two at a time?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Are you inclined to be slow and deliberate in your actions?
Yes | Maybe | No* || Score:
Do you usually finish your meals before other people even though there is no
reason to hurry?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Do other people regard you as a very lively person?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Are you always "on the go" when not actually sleeping?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Do you like organising and initiating leisure activities?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
When driving a car, do you get very frustrated by slow-moving traffic?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:
Are you generally very enthusiastic about starting a new project or
undertaking?
Yes* | Maybe | No || Score:

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