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Subject: MMPI THUS FAR
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From: richh@tigger.jvnc.net (RICHH)
Date: Thu, 7 May 1992 06:52:14 GMT
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Minnezsota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Here's the test thus far.
Save your answers. I'll let you know when we're done.
If you miss any, don't worry.  I'll post the 'cumulative'(??)
test each week.
Answer true or false.

1.  I like mechanics magazines.
2.  I have a good appetite.
3.  I wake up fresh and rested most mornings.
4.  I think I would like the work of a librarian.
5.  I am easily awakened by noise.
6.  My father is a good man, or(if your father is dead) my father was a 
    good man.
7.  I like to read newspaper articles on crime.
8.  My hands and feet are usually warm enough.
9.  My daily life is full of things that keep me interested.
10. I am about as able to work as I ever was.
11.  There seems to be a lump in my throat much of the time.
12.  My sex life is satisfactory.
13.  People should try to understand their dreams and be guided by
     them or take warning from them.
14.  I enjoy detective or mystery stories.
15.  I work under a great deal of tension.
16.  Once in a while I think of things too bad to think about.
17.  I am sure I got a raw deal from life.
18.  I am troubled by attacks of nausea and vomiting.
19.  When I take a new job, I like to find out whom it is important to   
     be nice to.
20.  I am very seldom troubled by constipation.
21.  At times I have very much wanted to leave home.
22.  No one seems to understand me.
23.  At times I have fits of laughing and crying that I cannot    
     control.
24.  Evil spirits possess me at times.
25.  I would like to be a singer.
26.  I feel that it is certainly best to keep my mouth shut when  
     I'm in trouble.
27.  When people do me a wrong, I feel I should pay them back if I 
     can, just for the principle of the thing.
28.  I am bothered by an upset stomach several times a week.
29.  At times I feel like swearing.
30.  I have nightmares every few nights.
31.  I find it hard to keep my mind on a task or job.
32.  I have had very peculiar and strange experiences.
33.  I seldom worry about my health.
34.  I have never been in trouble because of my sex behavior.
35.  Sometimes when I was young I stole things.
36.  I have a cough most of the time.
37.  At times I feel like smashing things.
38.  I have had periods of days, weeks, or months when I couldn't 
     take care of things because I couldn't "get going."
39.  My sleep is fitful and disturbed.
40.  Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over.
41.  I do not always tell the truth.
42.  If people had not had it in for me, I would have been much
     more successful.
43.  My judgment is better than it ever was.
44.  Once a week or oftener, I suddenly feel hot all over, for no
     real reason.
45.  I am in just as good physical health as most of my friends.
46.  I prefer to pass by school friends, or people I know but have
     not seen for a long time, unless they speak to me first.
47.  I am almost never bothered by pains over my heart or in my
     chest.
48.  Most anytime I would rather sit and daydream than do anything
     else.
49.  I am a very sociable person.
50.  I have often had to take orders from someone who did not know
     as much as I did.
51.  I do not read every editorial in the newspaper every day.
52.  I have not lived the right kind of life.
53.  Parts of my body often have feelings like burning, tingling,
     crawling, or like "going to sleep."
54.  My family does not like the work I have chosen (or the work I
     intend to choose for my lifework).
55.  I sometimes keep on at a thing until others lose their
     patience with me.
56.  I wish I could be as happy as others seem to be.
57.  I hardly ever feel pain in the back of my neck.
58.  I think a great many people exaggerate their misfortunes in
     order to gain the sympathy and help of others.
59.  I am troubled by discomfort in the pit of my stomach every few
     days or oftener.
60.  When I am with people, I am bothered by hearing very strange
     things.
61.  I am an important person.
62.  I have often wished I were a girl.  [Or, if you are a girl]  I 
     have never been sorry that I am a girl.
63.  My feelings are not easily hurt.
64.  I enjoy reading love stories.
65.  Most of the time I feel blue.
66.  It would be better if almost all laws were thrown away.
67.  I like poetry.
68.  I sometimes tease animals.
69.  I think I would like the kind of work a forest ranger does.
70.  I am easily downed in an argument.
71.  These days I find it hard not to give up hope of amounting to
     something.
72.  My soul sometimes leaves my body.
73.  I am certainly lacking in self-confidence.
74.  I would like to be a florist.
75.  I usually feel like life is worthwhile.
76.  It takes a lot of argument to convince most people of the truth.
77.  Once in a while I put off till tomorrow what I ought to do
     today.
78.  I am liked by most people who know me.
79.  I do not mind being made fun of.
80.  I would like to be a nurse.
81.  I think most people would lie to get ahead.
82.  I do many things which I regret afterwards.(I regret more things than 
     others seem to.)
83.  I have very few quarrels with members of my family.
84.  I was suspended one or more times from school for bad behavior.
85.  At times I have a strange urge to do something harmful or shocking.
86.  I like to go to parties and ther affairs where there is lots of fun.
87.  I have met problems so full of possibilities that I have been unable
     to make up my mind about them.
88.  I believe that women ought to have as much sexual freedom as men.
89.  My hardest battles are with myself.
90.  I love my father, or(if your father is dead) I loved my father.

RICHH