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The California Child Q-Set (CCQ)

The questionnaire you have just completed is the California Child Q-Set, or CCQ, an instrument developed by Jack and Jeanne Block (1980). The original goal of the CCQ was to provide psychologists with a tool for comprehensively describing the personalities of children and adolescents. Avshalom Caspi and colleagues (1992) reworded some of the CCQ items so that this measure can now be easily used by people who are not professional psychologists. Additionally, recent research has shown that the CCQ can be effectively used to describe the personalities of adults.

The Big Five

The “Big Five” is the most widely agreed-upon model of personality structure used by psychologists today. It proposes that the most basic dimensions of personality are captured by a set of five broad trait domains: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Scores these five personality dimensions, as well as descriptions of people who score high and low on each of these traits, are presented in the table below.

Personality Scores and Descriptions

Score (0-100)	Personality Dimension
60	ExtraversionHigh scorers tend to be sociable and outgoing. They prefer to be around people most of the time. High Extraversion is associated with being seen as more popular and more socially competent, having more friends and dating partners, being accident-prone, taking more study breaks, engaging in thrill-seeking and delinquent behavior, better performance in sales and management jobs, higher job satisfaction, earning a higher salary, having more leadership roles, attending more parties, exercising more frequently, belonging to a fraternity, playing a sport, smoking cigarettes, consuming more alcohol, and preference for hip-hop, soul, funk, electronic, rock, and heavy metal music. Low scorers tend to be reserved and serious. They often prefer to be alone or with a few close friends. Low Extraversion is associated with engaging in fewer risky behaviors.
64	AgreeablenessHigh scorers tend to be compassionate, good-natured, and eager to cooperate and avoid conflict. High Agreeableness is associated with being seen as more socially competent, with greater religiosity, greater willingness to help a stranger, and preference for pop, country, and religious music. Low scorers tend to be hardheaded, skeptical, proud, and competitive. They tend to express their anger directly. Low Agreeableness is associated with having more dating partners, with smoking cigarettes, driving fast, and holding prejudicial views. Agreeableness usually increases with age. Women tend to score higher on Agreeableness than do men.
81	ConscientiousnessHigh scorers tend to be responsible and well-organized. They have high standards and work hard to achieve their goals. High Conscientiousness is associated with earning higher grades, scoring higher on verbal intelligence tests, better school attendance, spending more time studying and completing household chores, sleeping more, being more religious, better performance in most jobs, and exercising more frequently. Low scorers tend to act spontaneously rather than making plans. They may pay little attention to details, are not very well-organized, and can sometimes be careless. Low Conscientiousness is associated with risky behavior, disciplinary problems, being accident-prone, more job changes, consuming more alcohol, and receiving more traffic tickets. Conscientiousness usually increases with age.
92	NeuroticismHigh scorers tend to be sensitive, emotional, and prone to experience feelings that are upsetting. High Neuroticism is associated with exercising more frequently. Low scorers tend to be secure, generally relaxed even under stressful conditions, and worry little. Low Neuroticism is associated with better physical and psychological health. Neuroticism usually decreases with age. Women tend to score higher on Neuroticism than do men.
91	Openness to ExperienceHigh scorers tend to be open to new experiences. They have broad interests and are imaginative. High Openness is associated with earning better grades, scoring higher on general intelligence tests, playing a musical instrument, holding liberal political opinions, and with preference for rock, heavy metal, classical, jazz, blues, and folk music. Low scorers tend to be down-to-earth, practical, traditional, and pretty much set in their ways. Low Openness is related to earning a higher salary, holding conservative political opinions, and having prejudicial views of minority groups.

Want to Learn More?

Would you like to complete a survey about social attitudes? Click here to complete the Social Attitudes Questionnaire. If you'd like, the researchers will email you the results of the study once it's complete.

Are you a parent? Learn more about your child or teen's personality by taking our Understand Your Child test.

Here are a couple of suggestions for places to learn more about the Big Five and general personality theory.

On the Web:

An online personality psychology textbook:
Personality Theories, by Dr. C. George Boeree

A guide to personality theory and research:
The Personality Project

Other websites that provide online personality tests:
YourPersonality.net
outofservice.com
3SmartCubes.com
Adam Cohen's test of subconscious religious beliefs

In Print:

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Baugh gave the following example: An emotional child grows up in a stoic family, where he’s constantly told to calm down. He tries to follow the family’s rules by suppressing the awareness of his emotions. As the intensity of his emotions ramps up, however, it eventually bursts out of the zone where it can be ignored. When this happens, the emotions appear to go from zero to 60 on the emotions speedway, and their intensity can’t be controlled. “At that point everybody in the family has to deal with it, and because people need to have emotions responded to, this only reinforces the person getting to emotional extremes,” Baugh said. Consequently, this becomes the only way the person knows how to manage emotional situations.
In other words, a person with borderline personality disorder rarely makes a conscious decision to manipulate anyone. When a person isn’t having their needs met, they resort to extreme behaviors, according to Neil Bockian, Ph.D, founder and president of Behavioral Health Associates and co-author of New Hope For People with Borderline Personality Disorder. These behaviors then get reinforced when family members or people who don’t normally pay attention to them rush in, he said. When loved ones get burned out, the person with BPD starts escalating the behaviors

People with BPD aren’t trying hard enough. According to Joan Wheelis, M.D., director of the Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, Mass., “it isn’t that clients aren’t motivated, but that there is significant emotional, cognitive and behavioral dysregulation associated with the disorder.” People don’t realize just how considerable their deficits are. Many are very intelligent, talented and productive so it’s hard to believe, she said. “The person is doing the best they can given their current mental state,” Bockian said

However, too many treatments can result in a “non-treatment treatment,” where the client isn’t fully engaged effectively in therapy, Dr. Wheelis said. She noted the importance of having “a primary clinician who’s responsible for the architecture of the whole treatment.”

Psychotherapy is the central treatment for borderline personality disorder. “To date, the gold-standard treatment for BPD is DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy),” Salters-Pedneault said. While there’s no way to say that DBT is superior — to date, no studies have compared all treatments in a “horse race” — judging by the quantity and quality of the studies that support DBT, it’s currently the best form of treatment, she said. Other promising psychosocial treatments include schema-focused, mentalization-based and transference-focused therapy.

Medications are sometimes prescribed to reduce symptoms of BPD or to treat a co-occurring disorder (such as bipolar disorder) and may help in conjunction with psychosocial treatments. According to Dr. Schulz, while studies haven’t been conclusive, some research has found that individuals who participated in DBT and took olanzapine (Zyprexa) experienced a reduction in symptoms when compared with individuals who attended treatment but took a placebo.

Dr. Wheelis, who advocates the use of medication, worries that “medication may be prescribed too frequently, leading to polypharmacy.” Additionally, “medication for symptoms of BPD can sometimes interfere in teaching the client that they can tolerate and cope with their emotions head-on,” she said.

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Results of Your
Borderline Personality Test

You scored a total of  48

Severe Borderline Personality Disorder Likely You answered this self-report test in a way that's consistent with people who have been diagnosed with severe Borderline Personality Disorder. This suggests that these concerns may be an issue for you as well, and something that you should seek out further assistance with this issue from a trained mental health professional immediately. Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by a pattern of unstable and intense relationships, as well as frantic efforts to avoid abandonment -- even if it's not real. You should not take this as a diagnosis of any sort, or a recommendation for treatment. However, you may want to look into seeking further consultation with a trained mental health professional if you are experiencing any difficulties in daily functioning or if you'd like a more in-depth answer. Save Your Results! Register now (or sign in now if you're already a member) to save these quiz results. (You must be logged-in first in order to save your quiz results.)

S C O R E S If you scored... Borderline Personality Disorder is... 33 & up 20 - 32 15 - 19 0 - 14 Severe Likely Possible Unlikely This is not a diagnostic tool! Please consult a mental health professional if you feel you need further assistance.

Want to learn more about Borderline Personality Disorder? Psych Central offers dozens of helpful articles about Borderline Personality Disorder. You may want to start with these: Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Symptoms of BPD Characteristics of BPD Treatment of BPD Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Borderline Personality Disorder Psychiatric Management for BPD BPD is Difficult to Diagnose Blog: Spotlight on BPD Overview of BPD

DR. JUNG SAYS

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It is important to recognize that there is no one word of wisdom, one magical advice or one great medication that will cure this vast, complex, human condition, for it is from the violation of one of the most personal, sacred and vulnerable foundations of human existence.~DR. JUNG

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