Your Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills

Complete the questionnaire below to learn more about your social, emotional, and behavioral skills. These are the skills that you use to start and support your relationships, keep your emotions in check, achieve your goals, and learn from experience. They’re things like goal setting, leadership, teamwork, creativity, and emotion regulation.

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Instructions

Here is a list of activities or things you could do. For each one, please select a response to indicate how well you can do that thing. For example, how well can you follow the instructions for an assignment? Note that how well you can do something may be different from how often you do it, or how much you like to do it. For each activity, you should rate how well you can do that thing.

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1. Plan out my time.
2. Lead a group of people.
3. Understand how other people feel.
4. Calm down when I'm feeling anxious.
5. Understand abstract ideas.
6. Concentrate on a task.
7. Express my thoughts and feelings.
8. See the good in people.
9. Keep a positive attitude.
10. Come up with new ideas.
11. Keep track of my promises and commitments.
12. Start a conversation.
13. Cooperate with other people.
14. Control my temper.
15. Create art.

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16. Work toward my goals.
17. Speak up when I disagree with others.
18. Get along with people.
19. Find reasons to feel good about myself.
20. Learn about other cultures.
21. Keep things neat and tidy.
22. Maintain a high energy level.
23. Take responsibility when I've made a mistake.
24. Control my impulses.
25. Make sense of complex information.
26. Do tasks that are routine or repetitive.
27. Assert myself as a leader.
28. Sympathize with other people's feelings.
29. Settle down when I'm feeling nervous.
30. Discuss complicated topics and ideas.

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31. Double-check my work.
32. Tell people how I am feeling.
33. Forgive people quickly.
34. Stay positive when something bad happens.
35. Invent things.
36. Follow the rules.
37. Talk to people.
38. Work as part of a group.
39. Stop myself from getting angry.
40. Draw or paint.
41. Think things through carefully.
42. Win arguments.
43. Make a positive impression on people.
44. See my good qualities.
45. Understand people from different backgrounds.

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About You

Background
Have you completed this questionnaire before? Yes No

What is your gender? Male Female Another gender

What is your age? years

What is your race/ethnicity? Check all that apply.
White/Caucasian
Hispanic/Latino
Black/African-American
Asian/Asian-American
American Indian/Native American
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Other

Do you speak English fluently? Yes No

Where would you place yourself on the following spectrum of social class?

Location
If you currently live in the USA, in which state do you live? What is your zip code?

If you currently live outside of the USA, in what country do you live?

Education and Work
What is the highest level of formal education that you have completed?

What is your current employment status?

Marriage and Family
What is your current marital status?

Are you a parent? Yes No