IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

144 Interview schedule
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Disturbances in and unmrtainty about aims
Emotionally unstable: Borderline type: l (partial)
What would you like to accomplish during your life?
Do your ideas about this change often?
If yes:Tell meabout it.
Not asked of housewiveshomemakers, adolescents, students, and those who have
never or almost never worked.
Do you often wonder whether you've made the right choice of job or career?
If yes How does that affect you?
Asked only of housewiverlhomemakers.
Do you often wonder whether you've made the right choice in becoming a housewife/homc
maker?
If yes: How does that affect you?
Adole~ents~ students, and more who have never or almost never worked.
Have you made up your mind about what kind of job or career you would like to have?
If no: How doer that affect you?
The requirements for this criterion may be fulfilled in any one of several different
ways. Subjects may report that they cannot decide about their
long-term goals or career choice, and that this has an obvious effect on the
way they lead their life. They may deny that they are uncertain about them,
but it may be obvious from their behaviour, which is characterized by persistently
erratic or fluctuating consideration or selection of strikingly different
careers or long-term goals. Persons 30 years of age or older who have not
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embarked on a career path (when one is available to them), or insist that they
have no idea at all about what their long-term goals are, should receive a
score of 2. The criterion should be scored conservatively with adole~entr and ,
not usually given to them.
2 Obvious and well documented persistent uncertainty about long-term goals
or career choice.
1 Probable but less well documented or persistent uncertainty about long-term ,
goals or career choice.
0 Absent. doubtful, or not supported by convincing examples.
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