Internal Dialog Activity Scale, IDAS Test - the question form

1. I like to anticipate what other people will say and respond to them in my mind.

2. I often feel torn between different thoughts.

3. I often mentally debate with an opposing viewpoint's arguments.

4. Sometimes my “good self” argues with my “bad self.”

5. Sometimes, when preparing to talk to someone, I rehearse the conversation in my mind beforehand.

6. Sometimes I continue unfinished conversations with other people in my mind.

7. Sometimes I debate with my true self.

8. I often find myself mentally talking to someone when I am alone.

9. When I cannot talk in person with someone close to me, I have imagined conversations with them.

10. I often imagine an alternative version of a conversation after it has taken place.

11. I often discuss my inner problems in arguments with myself.

12. In my internal conversations with myself, I try to find meaning in the events in my life.

13. When I am faced with a difficult choice, I discuss the possible options with myself from different points of view.

14. I talk to myself about what is important to me.

15. I engage in inner dialogues that feel emotionally destructive to me.

16. Before an important conversation, I plan a script for it by imagining what each person will say.

17. The dialogues I have in my mind interfere with my ability to concentrate on what I need to do.

18. Some of the dialogues I have in my mind upset me.

19. Talking to myself helps me understand myself better and answer the question of who I am.

20. After setbacks, I mentally justify myself and think through how things could have turned out better.

21. It is easier for me to decide to do something if I first make a mental decision in my internal dialogue.

22. I often have the impression that there are two different parts of me that argue with each other, want different things, and are in conflict with one another.

23. The dialogues I have in my mind distress me.

24. Sometimes I argue with the part of myself that I do not like.

25. I am upset that I argue with myself in my thoughts.

26. Through inner dialogues, I often arrive at some truth about my life and myself.