AIQ
- IIIx |
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INSTRUCTIONS: These items describe different aspects of identity. Please read each item carefully and consider how it applies to you. Fill in the blank next to each item by choosing a number from the scale below. | |
1 = Not important to my
sense of who I am. 2 = Slightly important to my sense of who I am. 3 = Somewhat important to my sense of who I am 4 = Very important to my sense of who I am 5 = Extremely important to my sense of who I am |
____ | 1. The
things I own, my possessions. |
____ | 2. My personal values
and moral standards |
____ | 3. My popularity
with other people |
____ | 4. Being a part
of the many generations of my family |
____ | 5. My dreams and
imagination |
____ | 6. The ways in which
other people react to what I say and do |
____ | 7. My race or ethnic
background |
____ | 8. My personal goals
and hopes for the future |
____ | 9. My physical appearance:
my height, my weight, and the shape of my body |
____ | 10. My religion |
____ | 11. My emotions
and feelings |
____ | 12. My reputation,
what others think |
____ | 13. Places where
I live or where I was raised |
____ | 14. My thoughts
and ideas |
____ | 15. My attractiveness
to other people |
____ | 16. My age, belonging
to my age group or being part of my generation |
____ | 17. The ways I deal
with my fears and anxieties |
____ | 18. My sex, being
a male or female |
____ | 19. My feeling of
being a unique person, being distinct from others. |
____ | 20. My social class,
the economic group I belong to, whether lower, middle, or upper
class. |
____ | 21. Knowing that
I continue to be essentially the same inside even though life
involves many external changes |
____ | 22. My gestures
and mannerisms, the impression I make on others |
____ | 23. My feeling of
belonging to my community |
____ | 24. My self-knowledge,
my ideas about what kind of person I really am |
____ | 25. My social behavior,
such as the way I act when meeting people |
____ | 26. My feeling of
pride in my country, being proud to be a citizen |
____ | 27. My physical
abilities, being coordinated and good at athletic activities |
____ | 28. My personal
self-evaluation, the private opinion I have of myself |
____ | 29. Being a sports
fan, identifying with a sports team |
____ | 30. My occupational
choice and career plans |
____ | 31. My commitments
on political issues or my political activities |
____ | 32. My academic
ability and performance, such as the grades I earn and comments
I get from teachers |
____ | 33. My language,
such as my regional accent or dialect or a second language
that I know |
____ | 34. My role of being
a student in college |
____ | 35. My sexual orientation,
whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual |
Age: ____ | Gender: Male or Female | Race or Ethnic Background:_______________ |
AIQ-IIIx Scoring |
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The AIQ-IIIx contains 35 items, as correctly shown on the web Questionnaire These items score into 3 scales plus a set of "special" items that may be used individually. | |
PI = Personal Identity Orientation SI = Social Identity Orientation CI = Collective Identity Orientation SP = Special items [not scored on scales] |
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PI = 2 5 8 11 14 17 19 21 24 28 [sum of answers to 10 items] SI = 3 6 9 12 15 22 25 [" 7 items] CI = 4 7 10 13 23 26 31 33 [" 8 items] SP = 1 16 18 20 27 29 30 32 34 35 (10 items not scored on scales) |
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