A mistake and a judgment about your whole self are different.
This topic concerns discouragement, harsh private judgments and uncertainty about your own decisions in everyday situations. It leaves room for the difference between a specific mistake and a sweeping conclusion about yourself. The answers describe what you remember during four weeks; they do not tell you what other people think of you or determine your worth.
Five numeric answers are required for this separate 1–5 descriptive mean, shown to one decimal. Any NA withholds only this mean; the full guide remains available. No bands, overall result or ranking.
From a particular event to a private conclusion
A correction may offer information about one task. An inwardly painful response may instead spread that information into a general account of personal inadequacy. The prompts ask whether that shift appeared in daily situations. They do not decide whether criticism was fair, whether your circumstances were supportive or whether you should have felt differently.
Self-doubt is not the same as introversion
Preferring quiet time does not answer these questions. Someone can enjoy solitude without harsh self-judgment, or enjoy company while privately doubting every choice. Also distinguish needing more information from distrusting your judgment after the necessary information is available. Neither a social preference nor a careful decision is automatically a difficulty.
A revised shopping list, not a verdict on a person
Suppose you forget one item on a shared shopping list and receive a reminder. The practical next step may be updating the list. Privately turning the reminder into a story that you always disappoint everyone is a different process. A useful note records the actual reminder separately from the wider conclusion, without assuming either person’s intention.
Separate low engagement from painful evaluation
The interest topic asks whether activities feel engaging; this one asks about inward distress and self-uncertainty. Someone may want to participate but withdraw because of a harsh view of themselves. Someone else may feel little interest without that private judgment. The check-in cannot identify a clinical explanation for either pattern.
An optional event-and-inference note
For one ordinary incident, write what could have been observed, the conclusion you drew and any information still missing. You can then decide whether a practical question or a smaller description would be useful. You do not have to replace a painful feeling with forced optimism or disclose the note to anyone.
The number describes endorsement of these situations
Five complete numeric responses are needed for this separate 1–5 mean. A 4 means frequent endorsement in this website bank, not that you are inadequate or have a disorder. One NA leaves the mean unavailable; no zero is inserted. The full guide remains available. Neither this original bank nor its Chinese wording has inherited IPRS validation.