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Cognitive Styles Test
The Cognitive Styles Test measures 13 irrational styles of thinking that can create or contribute to life problems including depression, anxiety, anger, relationship difficulties, motivational issues. This test provides information to help you learn about yourself and to work on self-improvement. Irrational styles of thinking refers to the concept from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that problem behavior and many symptoms of stress occur due to our thought processes. By learning about your irrational thinking you can learn to change it.
This site does not save results. If you have an Android device, you may download the Know Yourself Personality Tests app to take the test and your results will be saved in the app.
About the Cognitive Styles Test
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The following styles are discussed in your results:
- Anxious Style is the tendency to be easily stressed and feel tense or nervous.
- Self-Esteem Style is the degree of positive regard for yourself.
- Perfectionistic Style is the tendency to have excessive expectations or demands on self and/or others.
- Approval-Seeking Style is basing behavior or decisions upon what other people might think.
- Demand Style is the degree of pressure or expectations for certain behavior.
- Withholding Style is the tendency to not share feelings and/or personal information with others.
- Control Style is the degree to which effort or luck is believed to influence outcomes.
- Dependency Style is the tendency to rely on others.
- Externalizing Style is the degree to which you depend upon external events to define your happiness.
- Emotional Style is the degree of reactiveness and emotionality to events.
- Passivity Style is the tendency to be unassertive and passive in situations with others.
- Trust Style is the degree to which you trust others.
- Blaming Style is the tendency to focus criticism and blame on others.
This test was developed from the International Personality Item Pool which is a collaborative effort by personality researchers to develop advanced measures of individual differences. The results descriptions were written by a clinical psychologist.
Related reading:
- How do we Change Irrational Thinking?
- Analyzing Your Moods, Symptoms, and Events with Excel At Life's Mood Log
- What to Expect from Mindfulness-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (MCBT) When You Have Depression and Anxiety
- Coping With Change: Psychological Flexibility
- Motivational Psychology: Or, How Everyone Can Benefit From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Making Attributions for a Healthier Attitude
- List of Cognitive Styles
- Catastrophe? Or, Inconvenience?
- Danger: Negativity Ahead
- Use Your Head! And Your Heart!
- Excellence vs. Perfection
- But It Happened Before!
- When the Need for Control Gets Out of Control
- Why Are People Mean? Don't Take It Personally!
- Read Books, Not Minds
- To Should? Or, Not To Should? Demand Thinking
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For authors and more information:
Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. C. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 84-96.
International Personality Item Pool: A Scientific Collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality Traits and Other Individual Differences (https://ipip.ori.org/).
