Thinking Styles Quiz

This free assessment contains 24 questions designed to help identify the negative thinking patterns that may be influencing your mental health.

Understanding your negative thinking patterns is an important step toward greater self-awareness and personal growth. When you recognise the habits of thinking that may be holding you back, you can begin to challenge them and develop healthier, more empowering perspectives.

Answer each question honestly based on how you typically think and respond. There are no right or wrong answers, only valuable insights into your unique thinking patterns.

This assessment is for educational and self-reflective purposes only.

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1. Do you often describe your performance or situations using words like "Perfect", "Terrible", "Success", or "Failure" with nothing in between? *

Yes

Sometimes

2. When something doesn't go exactly as planned, do you feel like the entire effort was ruined? *

Yes

Sometimes

3. Do you tend to think of yourself or others as either "Good" or "Bad" without considering mixed qualities *

Yes

Sometimes

4. After receiving mostly positive feedback with one criticism, do you find your mind fixating on the critical comment? *

Yes

Sometimes

5. When you do something well, do you tend to brush it off or downplay it while focusing on what went wrong? *

Yes

Sometimes

6. Do you often replay negative senarios in your mind, even when positive things also occurred? *

Yes

Sometimes

7. When someone praises you, do you tend to dismiss it or think they're just being polite? *

Yes

Sometimes

8. Do you downplay your achievements by saying things like "It was nothing" or "Anyone could have done it"? *

Yes

Sometimes

9. When good things happen, do you often find reasons they "Don't really count"? *

Yes

Sometimes

10. Do you often assume you know what others are thinking, especially when you assume it's negative? *

Yes

Sometimes

11. Do you predict negative outcomes before you have any real evidence? *

Yes

Sometimes

12. Do you act on assumptions (e.g. "They must be mad at me") without checking the facts *

Yes

Sometimes

13. When something small goes wrong, do you imagine the worst possible outcome? *

Yes

Sometimes

14. Do you often think "I couldn't handle it" when imagining future problems? *

Yes

Sometimes

15. Do minor setbacks make you feel like a major disaster is coming? *

Yes

Sometimes

16. Looking back, can you see times when your feelings led you to conclusions that weren’t accurate? *

Yes

Sometimes

17. Do your feelings over-ride facts? (eg. "I feel like a failure, so I must be one", or "I feel guilty, I must have done something wrong" *

Yes

Sometimes

18. Do you treat emotions as evidence, even when you logically know they may not reflect reality? *

Yes

Sometimes

19. After making a mistake, do you call yourself names like "Idiot", "Failure", or "loser"? *

Yes

Sometimes

20. Do you judge other people based on a single behaviour? *

Yes

Sometimes

21. Do you reduce your entire identity to one negative event or trait? (eg. you believe you are completely useless after making one mistake) *

Yes

Sometimes

22. Do you often feel responsible for things that are outside your control? *

Yes

Sometimes

23. Do you assume other people's moods or reactions are directly caused by something you did? *

Yes

Sometimes

24. When somethings goes wrong, is your first instinct to blame yourself, even without evidence? *

Yes

Sometimes