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How Accurately Can You Describe Yourself?

Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. So that you can describe yourself in an honest manner, your responses will be kept in absolute confidence. Indicate the accuracy of the item as it applies to you, using the following rating scale:

", "ipip_debrief": "Thank you for completing this questionnaire.", "ipip_P395": "Am constantly reflecting about myself.", "ipip_P363": "Don't try to figure myself out.", "ipip_P377": "Examine my motives constantly.", "ipip_E163": "Like to get lost in thought.", "ipip_text_look_for_hidden_meaning_in_things": "Look for hidden meaning in things.", "ipip_E77": "Rarely look for a deeper meaning in things.", "ipip_X135": "Seldom daydream.", "ipip_X175": "Seldom get lost in thought.", "ipip_E173": "Try to examine myself objectively.", "ipip_H991": "Am easily intimidated.", "ipip_P397": "Am not concerned with making a good impression.", "ipip_X138": "Am not easily bothered by things.", "ipip_text_am_not_embarrassed_easily": "Am not embarrassed easily.", "ipip_E150": "Don't worry about things that have already happened.", "ipip_text_feel_comortable_with_myself": "Feel comortable with myself.", "ipip_H612": "Feel threatened easily.", "ipip_H980": "Need reassurance.", "ipip_H974": "Need the approval of others.", "ipip_X156": "Seldom feel blue.", "ipip_P436": "Want to amount to something special in others' eyes.", "ipip_text_worry_about_what_people_think_of_me": "Worry about what people think of me." } } }