Self Defeating Beliefs Questionnaire

1.	Love, respect and approval from other people are basic human needs	Agree Disagree
2.	It doesn’t bother me when I’m doing something that others can do better	Agree Disagree
3.	Punishment does little to keep people in line	Agree Disagree
4.	I tend to get upset when things go wrong	Agree Disagree
5.	Other people are the main cause of my bad feelings	Agree Disagree
6.	I’m not afraid to take risks - because if things don’t work out, few things are really awful anyway	Agree Disagree
7.	I can usually get on with tasks even when they are unpleasant	Agree Disagree
8.	There are some people I could not do without	Agree Disagree
9.	We can change the ways we tend to react to life, irrespective of the kind of past we’ve had	Agree Disagree
10.	We have a responsibility to help others with their problems	Agree Disagree
11.	Some discomfort and pain is inevitable	Agree Disagree
12.	Better to be safe than sorry	Agree Disagree
13.	I usually can’t feel at ease when I think that someone is unhappy with me	Agree Disagree
14.	I’m quite happy to try something even when I’m not sure I can do it well	Agree Disagree
15.	There is no such thing as a bad person, no matter how badly some people behave	Agree Disagree
16.	For me to be happy, my life needs to be secure, safe, and predictable	Agree Disagree
17.	You can’t feel good when you live in a sick world	Agree Disagree
18.	I hardly ever think about things over which I have no control	Agree Disagree
19.	I rarely put off doing things	Agree Disagree
20.	I like to get reassurance from others that I have done the right thing	Agree Disagree
21.	I don’t think about the past with much regret	Agree Disagree
22.	I can only enjoy life when others who are important to me are also happy	Agree Disagree
23.	There are many things I dislike, but nothing that I can’t actually stand	Agree Disagree
24.	There is an ideal solution to every problem, if only we search hard enough for it	Agree Disagree
25.	The best way to get people to like and respect you is to put them first and do things to please them	Agree Disagree
26.	I like to be successful at what I do, but I don’t see it as a necessity	Agree Disagree
27.	If someone does me a bad turn, I am still prepared to give them a second chance	Agree Disagree
28.	I have a right to have my needs met	Agree Disagree
29.	I can’t help the way I feel about some things	Agree Disagree
30.	If there’s nothing I can do to stop something going wrong, I just put it from my mind	Agree Disagree
31.	I am quite happy to accept responsibilities	Agree Disagree
32.	I usually seek advice before making decisions	Agree Disagree
33.	I can’t change the past, but I can change what I tell myself about it	Agree Disagree
34.	My happiness is dependent on the happiness of others	Agree Disagree
35.	There is no reason why I should not experience physical or emotional pain	Agree Disagree
36.	If you can’t do something properly, don’t do it at all	Agree Disagree
37.	I find it hard to do things that other people might disapprove of	Agree Disagree
38.	I can enjoy doing things even when I’m not good at them	Agree Disagree
39.	If people take responsibility for their wrongdoing, then I see little need for them to be punished	Agree Disagree
40.	If the world were a better place then I wouldn’t need to get upset	Agree Disagree
41.	The more things that go wrong in your life, the less happy you will be	Agree Disagree
42.	I rarely worry about the future	Agree Disagree
43.	I usually make decisions promptly	Agree Disagree
44.	We need a source of strength outside of ourselves	Agree Disagree
45.	The past can’t influence me now	Agree Disagree
46.	It’s callous to feel happy when others are sad	Agree Disagree
47.	Trying to avoid discomfort will often lead to greater problems	Agree Disagree
48.	I couldn’t stand to make a decision and then discover I’d made the wrong choice	Agree Disagree
49.	What I think about myself does not depend on what others think of me	Agree Disagree
50.	I tend to compare my performance with that of others	Agree Disagree
51.	People who break the rules deserve what happens to them	Agree Disagree
52.	I can usually accept a situation even when I don’t like it	Agree Disagree
53.	People create their own bad feelings	Agree Disagree
54.	I sometimes find it hard to get worrying thoughts off my mind	Agree Disagree
55.	I tend to avoid facing difficult problems and situations	Agree Disagree
56.	I don’t like depending on other people	Agree Disagree
57.	An unfavourable past will limit how happy one can be in the present	Agree Disagree
58.	Involving myself with someone else’s problems is a choice rather than an obligation	Agree Disagree
59.	Avoiding discomfort and pain is a high priority in my life	Agree Disagree
60.	Seeking perfection leads to poor performance	Agree Disagree
61.	I don’t feel hurt when I am criticised	Agree Disagree
62.	I tend to avoid things if I can’t do them well	Agree Disagree
63.	If you don’t get angry with others and put them right, then things will never improve	Agree Disagree
64.	To feel frustrated is a part of normal life	Agree Disagree
65.	Human beings can largely overcome the effects of their basic natures	Agree Disagree
66.	I hate taking risks and try to avoid them at all costs	Agree Disagree
67.	I often put off making important decisions	Agree Disagree
68.	I don’t expect other people to be concerned for my welfare	Agree Disagree
69.	You can’t change the effects of the basic nature you developed through your early experiences	Agree Disagree
70.	It’s OK for me to get on with my life, even when others are not coping with theirs	Agree Disagree
71.	I usually avoid doing anything that might lead to me having bad feelings	Agree Disagree
72.	There is rarely one right answer to any problem	Agree Disagree
73.	I want others to like me, but I can still feel alright when they don’t	Agree Disagree
74.	I usually feel bad when I make a mistake	Agree Disagree
75.	People should not behave in ways that make others unhappy	Agree Disagree
76.	I don’t usually get too bothered when things aren’t as I want them to be	Agree Disagree
77.	Practically nothing is upsetting in itself - it’s the way you interpret it	Agree Disagree
78.	If you worry about something that might be bad, you may be able to stop it happening	Agree Disagree
79.	It’s stupid to make yourself do an unpleasant task when you could be doing something enjoyable	Agree Disagree
80.	I like to decide things for myself	Agree Disagree
81.	If something once had a strong affect on your life, then it always will	Agree Disagree
82.	We are all responsible for our own happiness	Agree Disagree
83.	There are some things in life that I simply can’t stand	Agree Disagree
84.	To do nothing is usually the worst course of action	Agree Disagree
85.	I rarely worry about what others may be thinking of me	Agree Disagree
86.	I hate to fail at anything I do	Agree Disagree
87.	Too many people get away with their misbehaviour	Agree Disagree
88.	I have a reasonably laid back attitude to life	Agree Disagree
89.	Being happy is a choice that we make	Agree Disagree
90.	I often worry about things that may go wrong	Agree Disagree
91.	An easy life is a happy one	Agree Disagree
92.	I am the only one who can solve my problems	Agree Disagree
93.	It is impossible to significantly overcome the influence of the past	Agree Disagree
94.	It’s good for people to help each other, but this doesn’t mean that they should	Agree Disagree
95.	Life should be free of difficulties, unpleasantness, and pain	Agree Disagree
96.	It’s very doubtful that anything could ever be perfect	Agree Disagree