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COMMENT: Machine check: Was R not interviewed in 1998?

*********SECTION 16 **** ATTITUDES ***********

The next series of sentences describes the way some people feel about how much control they have over their lives. After each statement, please tell me whether you strongly disagree, disagree, agree, or strongly agree.....

There is really no way I can solve some of the problems I have.

Sometimes I feel that I'm being pushed around in life.

I have little control over the things that happen to me.

I can do just about anything I really set my mind to.

I often feel helpless in dealing with the problems of life.

What happens to me in the future mostly depends on me.

There is little I can do to change many of the important things in my life.

The following statements describe the way some people may feel about themselves. After each statement, please tell me whether you strongly disagree, disagree, agree, or strongly agree....

I feel that I'm a person of worth, at least on an equal basis with others.

I feel that I have a number of good qualities.

All in all, I am inclined to feel that I am a failure.

I am able to do things as well as most people.

I feel that I do not have much to be proud of.

I take a positive attitude toward myself.

On the whole, I am satisfied with myself.

I wish I could have more respect for myself.

I certainly feel useless at times.

At times I think I am no good at all.

I often get in a jam because I do things without thinking.

I think that planning takes the fun out of things.

I have to use a lot of self-control to keep out of trouble.

I enjoy taking risks.

I enjoy new and exciting experiences, even if they are a little frightening or unusual.

Life with no danger in it would be too dull for me.

Now I am going to read a list of the ways you might have felt or behaved recently. After each statement, please tell me how often you felt this way during the past week.....

I did not feel like eating; my appetite was poor.

I had trouble keeping my mind on what I was doing.

I felt depressed.

I felt that everything I did was an effort.

My sleep was restless.

I felt sad.

I could not get "going."