Emotions Profile Index by Robert Plutent, Ph.0. and Hanry Kellarman, Ph.D, Paced oy Name .. a Dat Age « ii Be osc Marital Status Education Com dete Oceupation . Instructions On the inside of this booklet you will find pairs of words which describe people wouls stich as Adventurous, Affectionate and Cautious. From ench pair, circle the word that describes you best. For example: If you believe you are more Adventurous than Impulsive, you wo. bd indicate this in the following, way: Impulsive Similarly, if you believe you are more Cautious than Affcctionate, you would indi- cate this in the following way: Affectionate Sometimes it may be dificult to decide which word in a pair fits you better but try to make the choice even if the difference is slight. Nefinitions of all the words used are provided. Tt is suggested that you look at them before beginning. ‘There is no time limit. Copyright © 1974 by WESTERN PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES Ht fo be reproduced In while or in pact without wellen permission of Westin Payehulgical Service. Allright eeserved. aso7eg Printed in USA wenasa ‘Scanned with CamScannerDEFINITIONS ADVENTUROUS: Someone who often ties new activilies for excite- ‘ment. AFFECTIONATE: Someone who oflen shows his warmth and love for others BROODING: Someone who silently stems with anger and keops it {o himsell, CAUTIOUS: Someone who is usually careful because he is afraid of what might happen to him, GLOOMY: Someone who mopes around and feels in a sad and dark hind of mood, IMPULSIVE: Somenne who usually acts on the spur of the moment because of an urge, wilout thinking of the consequences. ODEDIENT: Someone mho will usually do what he is tld, wibout objecting. QUARRELSOME: Someone who often starts arguments, RESENTFUL: Someone who walks around with 2 “chip on his shoulder cally made angy. SELF-CONSCIOUS: Someone who usually worries about other peo- le’s opinion of him when he is with them, SHY: Someone who usualy leels timid with other people and in ‘new siluations. SOCIABLE: Sorieone who is (iendly and who usually likes to be wil other people, 12/3} 4]s|6|7|a\9 1 Affectionate Let 2, Adventurous 20 0} Ts Resentful 1 2.Shy 2, o| LImpulsive Le | 2, Adventurous 2 0} 1. Gloomy lel 2, Resentful 2 14 i) 2 ett ae L | 2 1070] L-Alfeetion 1.40 ror) 2, Impuls a4 lo 1. Adventurous L 2, Gloomy 2. Lo} 1. Cautions Le 0} 2, Resentful 2 ‘o|* T. Quarrelsome a: 2, Obedient 2. 40 40 1. Obedient 1. 40} | 2,Shy 29 0| Sociable Ls 10] 2SellConscious 2. | 1. Adventurous La 2. Resentful 26 1,Self-Conscious: 2. Resentful 1-SellConscio 2.Quanvelsne 1. Quarrelsome 2.Affeation TObedient oO 2.Adventurous 1 2 1 2 1, 2 1 2, LTnpulive a} 2,Self-Conscions 2 LSel fC 1 2.Gloomy 2 1.Sociable 1 2.Gloomy 2 1. Adventurous 1 +O} 2 1 2. 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 oS | 2,Quarre T.Broodling me | 2. 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Affectionate 2, 040; tO] 2. Impulsive 1. Cautious 1 lo] T-Ohedien 2. Quarrelsome 20 = 2. Sociable Column] colurm | Column | Coluna | Column | column Column ] Colann ] Column wr | 2by Hi De Si 60 Te | “86 | 8 Raw Score ‘Scanned with CamScannerGINVUVITD TOME INDEX PROFILE SHEET by Robort Plutehik, Ph.0, and Henry Kollerman, Ph.D. Publisod by (Hse TESTED PEYEIGLGGICN SenVCES Wwe cr ote, rs 20251281 Emotion Taw Nemo ‘ Dimensions Score | Percentile Date | 1—Trustiul Age Sex 2—Dyscontrolled 3—Timid Marital Status Education Completed ‘4—Depressed 5—Distrustlul Occup: a 6—Gontrolled Comments | 7—Ageressive ; 8—Gregarious 9—Bias Hot 10 be reproduced In whale or in par without wilten peri A igh Copytlght © 1974 by WESIERN PSYCHOLOGICAL senvicEs renewed oseT ne of Western Paychologea! Services. Printed ia $4 ‘Scanned with CamScannersc ita ei neediness v (for women). Te sure to use the norms appropriate 10 the sex of the examinee, Step 3. ‘The ten circulné tines on the emotion circle-rep resent (m percentile increments, with the center of the circle representing zero percentile, Any percentile score th from 00 100 can thus be easily plotted and read, cl circle, up to the are which’ repre: percentile score for that particular emotion A percentile of 25 would be plotted half way hretween 70 and 80, See thn. example in Figure 1. INTERPRETATION OF ‘TILE EMOTION CINCH inotion rieele indicates at a glance the relat ths of each basic cell as certain in ions bviween them. ‘The percentile corresponding to a given raw score measure of that score's relative position in the di tion af scores in the norin group of 50 subject example, 1 score that falls at the.2%re weecntile is one that is exzeeded hy 77 percent of the scores in the norm tsoup. As a rough guide to interpretation, percentile: seores over the Gith perventile nay he considered " elow th For wohl thas Gheiousty, th AQ pererstile may he re wot absolute dl Individual ‘profiles may be'interpreted in two general first. jn terms uf what high sn each single dimensi implicttions of eertain com id low scores mean n terms of the tions of scores, and secondly, fottowing ig w description of the kind of person Gregarious Dimension wduetion) + This person vwnds to be sociable, friendly, sud soni what extroverted. He enjoys being aud likes to have warm, Friendly gontaets. Low scare: ‘This person tends to be unsociable, unfriend- ly, unaffectionate and introverted, He tends to be iso- lated and withdrawn. Trustful Dimension (Incornoration) High score: This person tends to he acceqying, trustful, ‘obedient ancl gullible, He tends to take things at their face valu as a depen! cnt person, He would probably be de Law scare: This person tends to be unaveepting, dim trustful, disobedient and not very gullible, He does not * take things at face value. Dyscontrol Dimension (Orientation) High score: This person tends to be impulsive. He likes to try new things and have new experiences. Ie likes surprises. He might also be described as ndventurous or curious. Low score: This person tends to be unadventurous. He is reluctant to try new things or have new experiences, He is not impulsive and tends to withdrnw from social contacts. Timid Dimension (Protection) High score: ‘This person tends to be cautious, eareful and anxious, He worries about getting into trouble, He ako worries. about what people think of him ond say about hi Low score: This person is less cautious and fearful th the average prrson, ile tends to take risks and ean easily tye inte trouble, He will co things that are dangerous and not int his ovn best interests. Extremely low scores may indicate impaired reality testing Depressed Dimension (Reintegration) High svove ¢ This person is depr He'is dissatisfied with as; prived an-! is nrobably: pessimist may he'associated wi fels des igh scores of his life. 1 . Extremely suicidal tender on is satisfied! wit refleet the one inv seore: ‘This huis style of life. of strong Extremely low seares 1 Distrusiful Dimension (Rejection) Iligh score: This person tends to be stubborn, resentful and sarcastic, He is overly esitieal and tends to be reject- ing of people and of ideas. He is most likely perceived by hostile person. Another description of him iassive-ageressive,” or guarded. Low seore: 1 rejecting. person amd not Control Dimension (Exploration) High score: This person wants to know his environment and yeants to learn to deal with it, He has a tendency to rganize his life and put things in their proper pigeon holes. He has a need for ordcs and likes being wel orpanized. He exhibits a good deal of self-control. He would be perceived by others as compulsive, meticulous cr well nized. Low score: This person tends to live his life on a day- to-day basis, He does not plan for the future. He tends to he disorganized in his thinking and in his activities. He hhas very little need for orderliness, He tends tochave little self-contrel. Aggressive Dimension (Destruction) High score: ‘This person tends'fo be quarrélsome=ai aggressive. He tends to say whatever is on his.rnind, He has a lot of anger and expresses it overtly.:He:tei blow off steam people around. People might Heseribe him 1a eebelligus. ‘Scanned with CamScannerLow score: This person is unaggressive and not quarrel- soine, He has.very little anger and is reluctant to expross it overtly. He is somewhat passive, : Commen Combi { Mowing descriptions concern the personality plication » of certain combinations of scores The six eo bir ed here are only a few of the eomman Hions that are found. ‘The dese are haced upon the trait 0 more fully in Plutehik (1962), ations of Scores: iow pee Vigh Gregurioun 4 Migh Ti This on tonsteney to fool guilty rather vasily 1 who as strong needs for secial plies astra sponsible. « approval High G: Low ‘Timid Th combination implies « person whe Tikes to be « ee. Tl tou responsible, Thore is also a passihility of psyal tendencies preaple hut whe has a tack of, comseia Viagin tare A adventises. Ue likes Wo mest we ing many friends and contacts, His socializing has an pulsive quality: amd nay be i oe High Dyscontrol fon wath thas nation likes people ana likes Ui A person with this combination seeks adventures and novelty tough things rather than through peoples that by doing dangerous things and taking risks, For ex- ample, such a person might|enjoy car racing, mountain climbing, etc. This pattern suggests the possihility of an impaired identification mechanism. Dyre Law Geogari _ High Gregarious + Low) Truetful vpetson likes to be ‘with people but he is somewhat distrustful. Me is a good jalizer Lut docs not take people at fare value, He tends (o he suspicions af people's votives Tigh ‘Trust Low ‘Tinvid Th risky things. xls to exercise poor judgnient and docs High Timid + High Control This combination represents a definte onxicty pattern “with strong likelihood of phobic and obsessive-compulsive Lchavior. Conflict Il two opposite emotion are nbove their respecti means, it indicates strong conflict in that particular polar dimension, If ane dime hove average, and its hipaler opposite is below averuge, it indicates lite conflict in that bipolar dimension, provided that the high scores are onthe following dimensiuns ful, timid and controlled. Bina High bins scores indicate a tendeney to pick the more socially desirable of the two items in a pair. However, this may also be a correct description of the person. Law hias scores indicate a iendeney of the subject to deserihe himself in socially undesirable ways. A CASE HISTORY Since one of the Important us notisie evalua history will be presented to ilh was a 20yearold male who had been working as a de livery man for the two years since graduating from high seliool. The pay veas low but the joh was secure. tn high school, John had performed at an average level and had no interest in further education, of the EPL is for diag Te had experimented a little with drugs, but was not actively. involved. He felt hared and cestless with the pattern of his life and as a result had joined a therepy hh several other adolescents he knew. After UF preven ti to John that he yo for woestiona! ‘The vocational guidance counselor administered the fol: lowing tests to John: the WAIS, the Strong Veeationa! Interest Inveatory, the Edwards Persona! Preference and several others. igure 1 shows the EPI profile for John T. based upon the adult norris for males, The Bias score is at the 90th percentile, indicating that John has tended to pick the more socially desirable altertiative in most cases. This raises the possibility that strong denial is present. How. ever, if the scores ar: taken at face value, the following picture emerges of John's personality, He is extremely Greyarious and likes very much to be with peopie. His ‘Trust seore is se high (98h poeeentile) that he is prade ably very gullible and very obedient. We is likely to accept other people at {nce value without eriticism or ion and probably finds it difficu’* to say "no" to Tow score on the Dis this observation. His low score on the Dyscontrol scale implies that he docs not like adventures and new experiences, but prefers His score on ity is somewhat higher than average, implying « cautious approach to life, His Depression score is above normal, implying that he is somewhat sad or depressed about his style of life, The Aggression scale is far below normal, indicating that John is unable to express anger toward other people. His Control score is also far below normal, suggesting a pattern of fife which is planless. 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