Responsibility Interpretations Questionnaire (RIQ) Test

The following questions concern your reactions to intrusive thoughts you have experienced over the past two weeks. Intrusive thoughts are thoughts that come into mind unexpectedly, may interrupt what you are thinking or doing, and tend to recur in different situations. They may occur as words, a mental image, or an urge (a sudden impulse to carry out an action). The focus here is on intrusive thoughts that are experienced as unacceptable. Research has shown that most people experience, or have experienced, such thoughts to a greater or lesser extent at some point in their lives and regard them as unacceptable in some way. Therefore, this is not unusual. Below are some examples of distressing intrusive thoughts: • A recurring image of attacking someone. • A sudden thought that your hands are dirty and that you could cause contamination. • A sudden thought that you may have failed to turn off the gas or may have left the door unlocked. • Repeated, senseless images of harming someone you love. • Repeated urges to attack or harm someone, even though you would never do so. These are only a few examples of intrusive thoughts, but they provide an indication of what is being assessed. People differ substantially in the types of thoughts they experience. Please think about intrusive thoughts of the type described above that you have experienced over the past two weeks, and answer the questions below with these intrusive thoughts in mind. These questions do not refer to all of your thoughts, but only to intrusive negative thoughts. Over the past two weeks: When these distressing intrusive thoughts occurred, how strongly were you convinced that each thought was true? Rate your level of conviction in these intrusive thoughts at the time they occurred, using the scale provided.