1. Evaluating childhood/adolescent Decisions. If you cannot answer the question, move on to the next one.
I. To what extent did your parents give you opportunities to make decisions?
II. When did you begin, or have you not begun, to take the long view in your decisions?
III. To what extent were your early decisions highly egocentric?
IV. To what extent did your parents exercise excessive control over your decision-making?
V. To what extent did they exercise insufficient control?
VI. To what extent did your parents restrain you from acting egocentrically or sociocentrically?
VII. To what extent would you say that you still are an egocentric or sociocentric decision-maker?
VIII. To what extent did you exercise power in your life as a child and begin to learn to accept the consequences of your own decisions?
IX. To what extent do you think you have learned, by having to bear the consequences of your own decisions, to become responsible for you own behavior?
X. Identify ways in which you were influenced by the media when growing up.
XI. To what extent were your decisions regarding romantic relationships based on influence from youth culture?
XII. Can you identify one bad habit you formed early on as a result of poor decision-making?
2. Consider the following:
· If you're currently engaged in a career, should you seek a career change, or continue to focus your professional energies on opportunities implicit in your present situation?
· If you're a student/not engaged yet in a career, should you seek a change in your major/minor, or continue to focus your energies on your current course of study?