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Ambivalent Hostility Scale

Thoughts and Actions of Others to Self

II. Ambivalent Hostility

   

Thematic Categories

 

a3

Others (human) killing or threatening to kill self.

 

b3

Others (human) physically injuring, mutilating, disfiguring self or threatening to do so.

 

c3

Others (human) adversely criticizing, blaming, expressing anger or dislike toward self or threatening to do so.

 

d3

Others (human) abandoning, robbing self, causing suffering, anguish, or threatening to do so.

 

a2

Others (human) depriving, disappointing, misunderstanding self or threatening to do so.

 

b2

Self threatened with death from subhuman or inanimate object, or death-dealing situation.

 

a1

Others (subhuman, inanimate, or situation) injuring, abandoning, robbing self, causing suffering, anguish.

 

b1

Denial of blame.


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