Assess Yourself 8:
Faith In People Scale
Click the button that most closely matches your response to the question.
1. Some people say that most people can be trusted. Others say you can't be too careful in your dealings with people. How do you feel about it?
Most people can be trusted.
You can't be too careful.
2. Would you say that most people are more inclined to help others, or more inclined to look out for themselves?
To help others.
To look out for themselves.
3. If you don't watch yourself, people will take advantage of you.
Agree.
Disagree.
4. No one is going to care much what happens to you, when you get right down to it.
Agree.
Disagree.
5. Human nature is fundamentally cooperative.
Agree.
Disagree.
*Rosenberg, M. (1957).
Organizations and values
(pp. 25-35). Glencoe, IL: Free Press. This scale was published in: Robinson, J. P., Shaver, P. R., & Wrightsman, L. S. (1991).
Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes
(pp. 404-406). San Diego: Academic Press.