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Your Financial Stress Profile—Questionnaire
Rate each statement listed below in terms of the amount of pressure you feel and circle your answer. How strongly would each affect you if you were in that situation?
You’re paid totally on commission in your job 0123
SSttrressorNoo.9.—8AFmebeiltionngsSecure
PRESSURE FROM FEELING INSECURE
NONE
MILD
MODERATE
SEVERE
You just listened to a very convincing lecture on the expected and imminent failure of the Social Security System
You discover a good friend is having great success playing the stock market, and he is buying all kinds of new toys
You’re told several of the co-workers in your department have just been laid off in a move by your company to cut costs
Your boss insists that you’ll have to upgrade your job skills in order to keep pace with the competition
0123 0123 0123 0123
You just started a new business with funds you borrowed from close relatives 0123 You’re offered a promising job by a start-up company which offers no benefits 0123
Your spouse wants you to get a second job to help pay bills, regardless of your already busy schedule
0123 You were just fired from your job 0123 You continue to put off setting up a retirement program 0123
TOTAL
This rates the pressure you feel from insecurity. SUBTOTALS:
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
~ William Hazlitt
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