Modified Hostility Scale Test - the question form

1. If someone treats you badly, you feel you should pay them back in the same way.

2. Many people exaggerate their misfortunes to gain sympathy and help.

3. Most people have to be persuaded for a long time before they accept a fact as true.

4. Most people are capable of lying in order to get ahead.

5. Someone would like to harm you.

6. Most people are honest mainly because they are afraid of getting caught.

7. Most people will try to gain an advantage by not being completely honest.

8. When someone does something nice for you, you usually wonder what is behind it.

9. I feel that I have often been punished unfairly.

10. You are opposed to giving alms.

11. Some members of my family have habits that irritate me.

12. People usually misunderstand your actions.

13. No one is interested in what is happening to you.

14. It is safer not to trust anyone.

15. You have often noticed that strangers look at you critically.

16. Most people make friends only because those friends may be useful.

17. You are sure that people talk about you behind your back.

18. You prefer not to speak to people unless they speak to you first.

19. Few people genuinely try to help others if it involves inconvenience.

20. You are usually cautious with people who are friendlier toward you than you expected.

21. Sometimes you try to keep your distance from a particular person so you will not do or say something you might later regret.

22. You often feel disappointed in people.

23. I have often met people who were considered experts but actually knew no more than I did.

24. You would definitely enjoy beating a criminal at their own game.

25. When you learn about the successes of a close acquaintance, you feel like a failure.

26. At times, you have had to be harsh with people who behaved rudely or persistently.

27. In general, people demand more respect for their own rights than they show for other people’s rights.

28. There are people you dislike so much that, deep down, you feel pleased when they get reprimanded for something.

29. I often have to go to great lengths to win an argument.

30. You are often not aware of what is going on in the lives and interests of people around you.

31. In childhood, the person you spent the most time with (mother/father, stepparent, foster parent, etc.) was very strict with you.

32. You have often met people who envied your successful ideas because they could not come up with them themselves.

33. When a man is in the company of a woman, his thoughts are usually focused on her sex.

34. You have often had to work under supervisors who could manage things so that all successes were credited to them, while subordinates were always blamed for mistakes.

35. Sometimes you are sure that other people know what you are thinking.

36. Many people are guilty of inappropriate sexual behavior.