Fear Schedule Survey Questionnaire

I'm curious if persons with AvPD have more and stronger specific fears than average. My hypothesis is that they do and the elevation is pronounced. This is a questionnaire that asks you to rate your fear of 52 common sources of fear such as blood, snakes, and being alone with the opposite sex. The site scores it for you and tells you the average range for your gender and the average score.

If you don't mind taking the time, it would be useful if you said whether you gave high scores to any fears that have nothing to do with social anxiety. For example, I'm quite certain that the opposite sex item will be rated as frightening, but if you also gave high ratings to worms, spiders, and blood, that would be intriguing.

i am going to post it on the AsPD forum shortly for comparison.

Here is the quiz: http://www.psychbytes.com/Quizzes/Fear% ... e%20II.htm

My score was 57, which is low for a male. I would describe myself as a low fear person because I don't have any memories of being afraid and my psychophysiological sensitivity to physical danger, social stressors (speaking in front of a crowd, being embarrassed, girls, confrontation, etc), uncertain situations, animals, and gore/blood/mutilation range from blunted to nonexistent. I've been an adrenaline junkie and risk taker since i was a toddler, so I believe that's just how I'm wired. But enough about me.

Your score is 107

I scored most of the ones that require social interaction 4 and above. Meeting someone for the first time is the only one I gave a 7.

Apart from the social aspects the only things that come to mind that i'm scared of are heights and birds. We had pet chickens when I was a kid and they would chase me. Most other animals i like.

Stuff like blood and pain dont bother me. I get regular blood tests and look at the needle go in and the blood come out.

Will be interesting to compare aspd and avpd in terms of adrenaline activities (extreme sports, risky behaviours, etc). I would guess us avpd's would hold back and question the possible good and bad outcomes, where as aspd's would probably not give any second thought to possible consequences and just go for it.

tlepS drawkcaB wrote:Your score is 107

I scored most of the ones that require social interaction 4 and above. Meeting someone for the first time is the only one I gave a 7.

Apart from the social aspects the only things that come to mind that i'm scared of are heights and birds. We had pet chickens when I was a kid and they would chase me. Most other animals i like.

Stuff like blood and pain dont bother me. I get regular blood tests and look at the needle go in and the blood come out.

Will be interesting to compare aspd and avpd in terms of adrenaline activities (extreme sports, risky behaviours, etc). I would guess us avpd's would hold back and question the possible good and bad outcomes, where as aspd's would probably not give any second thought to possible consequences and just go for it.

The only sports that have kept my interest are full contact martial arts. I am not afraid to fight in real life either. I wouldn't say I'm aggressive in an out of control sense (I can be very much so, but this is rare). i think of myself as superior and if that gets challenged, I may have to make a stand. I'm not an uptight loser who can't take a joke, but if someone thinks he can bully me, make a fool of me, assume dominance over me, it's not going to happen. most people are tolerant of these provocations, either because they do not care or they' don't have what it takes to stand up for themselves (95% of the time, it's the latter). i actually enjoy confrontation and i'm not afraid of getting hurt, so i will stand my ground.

i'm a risk taker, indeed. whenever i've done something or something happened and that something endangered my life, i enjoyed the experience. i am not motivated by self-destructive urges and i'm not the suicidal type, but i wanted to do it again like a kid at an amusement park who wants to get on a ride a second time.

while i can handle physical danger, i cannot agree with you that "pain does not bother me." if I'm in pain, i would prefer for it to stop.

270

4 Suffocating
5 Failing a test
6 Looking foolish
17 Making mistakes
28 Illness or injury to loved ones
29 Being self-conscious
37 Not being a success
39 Snakes
41 Speaking before a group
43 Death of a loved one
49 Untimely or early death


I keep thinking that situations listed could either be 1 or 7, such as swimming in deep water (a pool) would rate 1 or in the middle of the ocean would be a 7.
I'm not bagging your test, I guess comparing my results to tlepS and feeling that I have done it wrong....


269

4 Suffocating
5 Failing a test
6 Looking foolish
17 Making mistakes
28 Illness or injury to loved ones
29 Being self-conscious
37 Not being a success
39 Snakes
41 Speaking before a group
43 Death of a loved one
49 Untimely or early death

Had to do it again...

Dwight wrote:

I keep thinking that situations listed could either be 1 or 7, such as swimming in deep water (a pool) would rate 1 or in the middle of the ocean would be a 7.
I'm not bagging your test, I guess comparing my results to tlepS and feeling that I have done it wrong.... insecure much

I didn't create this questionnaire, so no worries.

I thought of deep water as the ocean. Didn't matter either way because it's a 1. I assumed that I wasn't stranded out there or anything crazy. Just swimming in normal circumstances. I've done that and didn't consider that it could be frightening or cause anxiety. I don't think any of those thoughts entered my mind.

247
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191 total.

4 Suffocating
5 Failing a test
6 Looking foolish
17 Making mistakes
28 Illness or injury to loved ones
29 Being self-conscious
37 Not being a success
39 Snakes
41 Speaking before a group
43 Death of a loved one
49 Untimely or early death

There is something not completely right though.
As I ain't really all too bothered with an untimely or early death, more something that I consider pretty much inevitable.
However I do have a very very very high fear of spiders and insects (and anything that looks like it), but they didn't come up here.

Little Boy Lost wrote:

Dwight wrote:
I don't think any of those thoughts entered my mind.

Maybe, you answered your own question.
We've been known to over think a situation or two

Dwight

I laughed when I saw my score, I knew it would be really high but when I read 57 I was thinking like the 150 mark

Your score is 275.

I'm a very anxious & fearful person so I'd say that is pretty correct. I had a lot of 6 & 7's... I only had 3 1's and they were: sharp objects, thunderstorms and strange dogs.

Dwight wrote:
Maybe, you answered your own question.
We've been known to over think a situation or two

I'm not overthinking. The trouble is that it's hard to remember. I have a terrible memory for how I felt, unless i my behavior tips me off. If I became enraged, I'll remember what i did and infer that I was infuriated.

Further, I feel excitement in frightening situations, but it's a good excitement like people get on roller coasters. When I've been in a situation that should have induced nervousness, I often felt nothing but at most my emotional experience was the same impatience I feel waiting on a line. If an embarrassing situation causes an affective reaction, it's frustration that's no different than how I feel when / can't find something. I don't think i'm making conflating different affective experiences. i am sure that my "fear" has positive valence.

Lastly, I am blunted. I do not react to aversive events with normal negative emotionality. i remember when I should have been sad or anxious and thought "I feel fine. Calm and content, like always."

I think they should have asked subjects to score how stressful they found taking this test.