| Item_1 | When you talk to people, do you have the feeling that they don’t understand you? | C | R |
| Item_2 | Think of the people with whom you come into contact daily, aside from the ones to whom you feel closest. How well do you know most of them? | C | O |
| Item_3 | Has it happened in the past that you were surprised by the behaviour of people whom you thought you knew well? | C | R |
| Item_4 | In the past ten years your life has been: (full of changes without your knowing what will happen next – completely consistent and clear) | C | O |
| Item_5 | Do you have the feeling that you are in an unfamiliar situation and don’t know what to do? | C | O |
| Item_6 | When you face a difficult problem, the choice of a solution is: (always confusing and hard to find – always completely clear) | C | O |
| Item_7 | Your life in the future will probably be: (full of changes without knowing what will happen next – completely consistent and clear) | C | O |
| Item_8 | Do you have very mixed-up feelings and ideas? | C | O |
| Item_9 | Does it happen that you have feelings inside you would rather not feel? | C | O |
| Item_10 | Does it happen that you have the feeling that you don’t know exactly what’s about to happen? | C | O |
| Item_11 | When something happened, have you generally found that: (you overestimated or underestimated its importance – you saw things in the right proportion) | C | O |
| Item_12 | In the past, when you had to do something which depended upon cooperation with others, did you have the feeling that it: (surely wouldn’t get done – surely would get done) | Ma | O |
| Item_13 | Has it happened that people whom you counted on disappointed you? | Ma | R |
| Item_14 | Do you have the feeling that you’re being treated unfairly? | Ma | O |
| Item_15 | What best describes how you see life: (one can always find a solution to painful things in life – there is no solution to painful things in life) | Ma | R |
| Item_16 | When something unpleasant happened in the past your tendency was: (“to eat yourself up about it” – to say “OK that’s that, I have to live) | Ma | O |
| Item_17 | When you do something that gives you a good feeling: (it’s certain that you’ll go on feeling good – it’s certain that something will happen to spoil the feeling) | Ma | R |
| Item_18 | Do you think that there will always be people whom you’ll be able to count on in the future? | Ma | R |
| Item_19 | Many people – even those with a strong character – sometimes feel like sad sacks (losers) in certain situations. How often have you felt this way in the past? | Ma | R |
| Item_20 | When you think of the difficulties you are likely to face in important aspects of your life, do you have the feeling that: (you will always succeed in overcoming the difficulties – you won’t succeed in overcoming the difficulties) | Ma | R |
| Item_21 | How often do you have feelings that you’re not sure you can keep under control? | Ma | O |
| Item_22 | Do you have the feeling that you don’t really care about what goes on around you? | Me | R |
| Item_23 | Life is: (full of interest – completely routine) | Me | R |
| Item_24 | Until now your life has had: (no clear goals or purpose at all – very clear goals and purpose) | Me | O |
| Item_25 | Most of the things you do in the future will probably be: (completely fascinating – deadly boring) | Me | R |
| Item_26 | When you think about your life, you very often: (feel how good it is to be alive – ask yourself why you exist at all) | Me | R |
| Item_27 | Doing the things you do every day is: (a source of deep pleasure and satisfaction – a source of pain and boredom) | Me | R |
| Item_28 | You anticipate that your personal life in the future will be: (totally without meaning or purpose – full of meaning and purpose) | Me | O |
| Item_29 | How often do you have the feeling that there’s little meaning in the things you do in your daily life? | Me | O |
