Do you know your own worth?

In discussion groups as a student, you:

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Were the perfect pupil
Expressed your ideas as best you could
Had to make a real effort to speak audibly
Implied that the topic about which you were speaking was trivial

Someone makes a disparaging remark about you. You:

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Get it into perspective: the person who made the comment obviously doesn’t know you very well
Say something witty back
Get in a mood and stare at your feet
Pretend to rise to the bait

You are going to a party where there will be lots of other single people. You:

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Bring out your most glamorous dress
Put effort into your appearance for once
Find something that will make you feel unobtrusive
Wear whatever’s to hand

At a job interview, you are asked about your weaknesses. You:

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Answer that you have one or two failings that you try to turn into virtues
Assume that the interview is not going well
Are honest, and mention one or two things
Wonder what the point of the question is, since all the candidates could lie

Someone at work lets you know that they are interested in you. You:

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Start flirting with them
Keep finding a way to walk past their office
Skulk around the office so that you don’t ever have to come face to face with them
Wait until they make it blatantly obvious

You think that people see…

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What they want to see
You more or less the way you are
Something in you that you don’t see in yourself
What you let them see

Your social life feels like:

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A costume ball
An exciting journey
A scary jungle
A game of chance

You look at yourself in the mirror. How do you look?

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Plain
Natural
Tense
Just right

You sometimes envy those who:

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Speak their mind
Are full of human warmth
Like to be noticed
Don’t need to make an effort to be liked

Which of the following would be most likely to make you feel good?

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Someone checking you out
Making someone else smile
Someone complimenting you
Someone remarking on something about you that people don’t usually notice

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Personality Test

In discussion groups as a student, you:

Someone makes a disparaging remark about you. You:

You are going to a party where there will be lots of other single people. You:

At a job interview, you are asked about your weaknesses. You:

Someone at work lets you know that they are interested in you. You:

You think that people see…

Your social life feels like:

You look at yourself in the mirror. How do you look?

You sometimes envy those who:

Which of the following would be most likely to make you feel good?