FAMILY PATHOLOGY SCALE
Dr. Vimala
Veeraraghavan, Dr. Archana Dogra.
BASIC TNFORMATION
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STATEMENTS Most Occasio- Never
Often nally
1. I ask the child toThe moment he comes,
come.
I send him back. I can never say what I want
to communicate.
2. I am all the time on
guard,lest what I say may
make the other person hurt me.
3. I am al ways woried about what other family
members think about me and my behavior.
4. I always fear that my children may leave me.
. In my house, quarrels are
invariably among the
members not following certain rules.and regulations.
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6. I spend hour hours together on prayers and insist
that others should also the same.
7. 1 have to spend hours together for wiping,
cleaning and dusting.
8. Thave to wash everything because I feel my
family members have defiled the things since
they did not wash themselves.
9. 1 sometimes feel that I spend all my time on
allthese activities and have no time to rest.
10.I keep testing every now and then whether the
children love me or not.
11.I always want the children to come to me and
demonstrate their affection.
12.1 get panicky when they(children) show more
affection towards an outsider lest they get attracted
to them.
13.I get angry when the children spend more time with
my spouse than mne.
14.1 like to see my children always around me.
15.I never send them to the relatives or friends house
even for a few hours.
16.I feel nervous when the child expresses a wish to
go away from home.
17.1 keep telling child he should do things as I say.
18.I keep rewarding my child for everything but still
I find he/she is not attached to me.
19.0ver the years my
rewardingitechniques
have become more and more
expensive for me.
20.I get hurt when the child
disobeys me.
21.Whenever I get angry or frustrated, I punish
the child.
22.I feel so disturbed by the children that I lock
them in the ròom for atleast 3-4 hours a day.
23.Sometimes my anger become so extrme that
Ijust don'tknow what I am doing to the child,
later I regret my action and cry over it.
24.I keep apologizing to the child whenever
I think he is angry with me
25.I am constantly in tension that my family
membersmay mistake me.
26.Ikeep trying to please eyeryone in the family
and in the processI find I have no time for myself.
27.I feel very happy that my family is totally
dependent on me.
28.lf any family member talks well of any other
family member I get completely put off.
29.I want everyone in thè family to appreciate me,
reassure me that I am on the right path.
30.I insist on everyone to be perfect.
31.1just cannottolerate even a small deflection
from perfection.
32.I get easily put off when the child obeys others
and not me.
33.1f the child does not return from school on time,
get panicky.
34.I insist accompanying my child to every place
on
he/she goes despite his/her protest.
35.The moment the child leaves home, I start
visualizing and imagining that some bad
incident has occurred and get totally panicky.
36.I insist that the child should ring me up when
he/she reaches.their destination and ring back
when they' start to leave.
37.I can never let my child go to a hostel.
38.When he child misses his food a little bit,
get very worried..
39.I sometimes try to win the child.by crying.
40.I keep telling the child how great I am, how
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grateful he should be towards me for all I have done.
41.I insist on proper loving behavior on the part ofthe
child for all I have done for him.
42.When I go to work or anywhere outside,
my mind is always back home with the
children and I just cannot enjoy the shopping etc.
