Fear of Compassion Scale Test - the question form

1. People will take advantage of me if they think I am too compassionate.

2. Feeling compassion for someone who has done something wrong means letting them avoid punishment.

3. Some people do not deserve compassion.

4. I am afraid that too much compassion makes a person very vulnerable.

5. People will take advantage of you if you are too forgiving and compassionate.

6. I am afraid that if I am too compassionate toward people, I will attract troubled people who will emotionally drain me.

7. People should help themselves rather than wait for help from others.

8. I am afraid that if I am compassionate, some people will become too dependent on me.

9. Too much compassion makes people soft and easy to take advantage of.

10. I believe that, for some people, discipline and appropriate punishment are more helpful than compassion.

11. Wanting others to be kind to you is a sign of weakness.

12. I am afraid that, when I need people to be kind and understanding, they will not be.

13. I fear becoming dependent on others' care because they may not always be available or willing to provide it.

14. I often wonder how genuine other people's expressions of warmth and kindness are.

15. Kindness from others is a bit frightening.

16. When people are kind and compassionate toward me, I feel worried or uncomfortable.

17. If people are friendly and kind to me, I worry that if they find out something bad about me, it will change how they feel about me.

18. I worry that people are kind and compassionate only if they want something from me.

19. When people are kind and compassionate toward me, I feel empty and sad.

20. When people are kind, I feel they are getting too close to me.

21. Even though other people are kind to me, I rarely feel warmth in my relationships with them.

22. I try to keep my distance from others, even if I know they are kind.

23. If I think someone is being kind and caring toward me, I "put up a barrier."

24. I am afraid that if I become kinder and less self-critical, my moral standards will deteriorate.

25. I am afraid that if I were more compassionate toward myself, I would become weak.

26. I have never felt compassion for myself, so I do not know how to develop it.

27. I am afraid that if I develop compassion in myself, I will become dependent on it.

28. I am afraid that if I become too compassionate toward myself, I will lose my self-criticism and my flaws will show.

29. I am afraid that if I develop compassion for myself, I will become someone I do not want to be.

30. I am afraid that if I become too compassionate toward myself, people will reject me.

31. I am afraid that if I am too compassionate toward myself, something bad will happen.