4 Exploring Your Personality Q and Scoring Key (Transaction Analysis)
4 Exploring Your Personality Q and Scoring Key (Transaction Analysis)
4 Exploring Your Personality Q and Scoring Key (Transaction Analysis)
Hello! This exercise has 42 behaviors listed. Go through each item and indicate how frequently you do
each of the following behaviors by selecting the correct option
Options:
0 – Almost Never
1 – Rarely
2 – Sometimes
3 – Frequently
4 – Very Frequently
INTERPRETATION:
An ego state for Berne is: ‘a system of feelings accompanied by related set of behaviour patterns.’
Total Level
Ego State Description
Score
Tries to make the Child do as the parent wants them to do, perhaps
Critical transferring values or beliefs or helping the Child to understand and live in
Parent society. They may also have negative intent, using the Child as a whipping-
boy or worse.
Caring and concerned and often may appear as a mother-figure (though
Nurturing
men can play it too). They seek to keep the Child contented, offering a safe
Parent haven and unconditional love to calm the Child's troubles.
The 'grown up' rational person who talks reasonably and assertively,
Adult neither trying to control nor reacting aggressively towards others. The
Adult is comfortable with themself and is, for many of us, our 'ideal self'.
Adapted Reacts to the world around them, either changing themselves to fit in or
Child rebelling against the forces they feel.
Little The curious and exploring Child who is always trying out new stuff (often
Professor much to their Controlling Parent's annoyance).
Displays feelings and behaviour learnt as a child when rebelling against
parent figures. The Rebellious Child is 'counter dependent'. Whatever the
Rebellious parent says, the Rebellious Child thinks and wants the opposite. It feels like
Child freedom and 'being myself', but on its own, it is the prison of always
having to be the opposite of the parent figure - not their photo, but its
negative.