Meta-Emotion Questionnaire
To assess how you feel about emotions, please indicate if you agree or disagree with each item/question by checking any answer that ranges from “I Disagree” to “I Agree.” Totally agree”.
Meta-Emotion Questionnaire
This assessment is designed to help you understand your emotional history and how you feel about different emotions. It is not a diagnostic tool. Please consult a healthcare professional for a formal diagnosis.
My parents often showed me that they were proud of me.
1/50
When I was growing up, my family always attended the most important events in which I participated (e.g., plays, concerts, sports events).
2/50
My parents helped me to feel proud of myself.
3/50
My family taught me to believe in my talents.
4/50
I learned from my past to feel good about what I have accomplished.
5/50
I learned from my parents that mastery is all about believing in yourself.
6/50
My family taught that if I am failing at something, it usually has very little to do with bad luck.
7/50
My past history makes it easy for me to feel proud of the accomplishments of those close to me.
8/50
I easily express my pleasure in the achievements of others.
9/50
When I was growing up, there was lots of affection shown in my home.
10/50
My parents often showed me that they loved me.
11/50
As a child, I felt really accepted by most of my peers.
12/50
My family touched, hugged, and kissed other another a lot.
13/50
I came from a very emotionally expressive family.
14/50
My parents often said "I love you" to me when I was a child.
15/50
I feel comfortable expressing affection to those I care about.
16/50
From their actions I always knew I was important to my parents.
17/50
As a child, my preferences and interests really mattered to my parents.
18/50
My parents responded to my emotions when I was growing up.
19/50
I feel comfortable receiving affection from those I care about.
20/50
It's easy for me to say "I love you" when I feel it.
21/50
I was afraid of my father's anger.
22/50
It was hard for me to show my own anger to my parents.
23/50
I feel highly uncomfortable when people are angry with me.
24/50
I was taught as a child that anger is very similar to aggression.
25/50
I was afraid of my mother's anger.
26/50
I can't talk about my own anger with comfort.
27/50
My family generally believed that anger was a destructive emotion.
28/50
I try to avoid becoming angry.
29/50
Not too many people can tell when I am angry.
30/50
I will keep my anger controlled until I eventually blow up.
31/50
I often feel that my anger is out of control.
32/50
I've learned from my past that expressing anger is like throwing gasoline on an open flame.
33/50
I keep my sadness to myself.
34/50
Past experience has taught me that letting myself be sad is a waste of time.
35/50
I'm rarely sad.
36/50
My family taught me that feeling sadness was cowardly.
37/50
I learned as a child that expressing sadness just brought everyone else down.
38/50
I try quickly to get over being sad.
39/50
I am impatient with other people's sad moods.
40/50
When I was a child, my loneliness wasn't noticed by my parents.
41/50
No one can tell when I am sad.
42/50
I've learned through experience that there's very little point in talking to others when I'm downhearted.
43/50
I hate being around sad people.
44/50
I could never openly express my worries and fears to my parents.
45/50
My parents believed that I should just get over my fears and not dwell on them.
46/50
As a child, I just wasn't allowed to be afraid.
47/50
I was taught as a child to avoid thinking too much about my fears, because doing so could paralyze me into inaction.
48/50
I learned when I was young to keep going even when I was afraid.
49/50
My family taught me that exploring my fears would make me a wimp.
50/50