The Codependency Self-Inventory Scale

Testing your personality traits can help you determine the degree of codependency in your life.

Answer all questions truthfully. Usually the first answer that comes to your mind is the most truthful and most accurate.

Choose the most appropriate rating for each statement:

1 — Never

2 — Sometimes

3 — Often

4 — Almost always

Questions:

1. I tend to take responsibility for other people's feelings or behavior.
2. I find it difficult to identify my feelings, such as happiness, anger, embarrassment, sadness, or excitement.
3. It's hard for me to express my feelings.
4. I feel fear or anxiety at the thought of how others will react to my feelings or behavior.
5. I minimize problems and deny or change the truth about the feelings or behavior of the people I interact with.
6. I find it difficult to establish or maintain close relationships.
7. I'm afraid of being rejected.
8. I try to achieve perfection in everything and judge myself strictly.
9. It's hard for me to make decisions.
10. I tend to rely on the opinions of others rather than acting on my own.
11. I tend to put other people's wants and needs first.
12. I tend to value other people's opinions above my own.
13. My sense of self-worth comes from outside, depending on the opinions or actions of other people who, I think, are better in this.
14. I find it hard to be vulnerable and ask for help.
15. I try to be under somebody else's control not to take responsibility for things.
16. I am too loyal to others, even when this loyalty is not justified..
17. I have a habit of looking at situations on an all-or-nothing basis.
18. I am very tolerant of inconsistency and mixed assignments.
19. There are emotional crises and chaos happenning in my life.
20. I'm looking for a relationship in which I feel needed and then try to keep them.

Scale for interpreting the results:

60—80 — a very high degree of codependent models

40—59 — high degree of codependent models

30—39 — average degree of codependent and/or counter-dependent models

20—29 — very few codependent models and/or a high degree of counter-dependent models

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