Scale of Dependency Strivings
Type of Reference
A. Statements referring to having, getting, wanting or needing help, support, protection, care, approval, love, doctoring, and divine assistance.
B. References to oral activities, food, etc. Includes any oral activity, such as chewing gum, eating, smoking, drinking, swallowing, sucking, and biting.
C. Denial of dependency strivings.
Person Involved in Dependency Strivings
1. Self or self and others.
2. Others or unspecified.
Time of Occurrence of Strivings
a. Past.
b. Present.
c. Future or unspecified.
Scale of Frustrated Dependency Strivings
Types of Reference about Frustrated Dependency Strivings
A. References to self bing frustrated in having, getting, wanting, or needing help, support, protection, care, approval, love, doctoring, and divine intervention.
B. References to oral frustration. Includes any oral-gastric frustrations, e.g., difficulties or delays in getting food, water, or other objects to relieve oral tension. Need to resort to scraps or waste products for food, hunger, thirst, food deprivation, dry throat, difficulty in obtaining food, empty stomach, being out of cigarettes, difficulty in swallowing, etc.
C. Denial of oral frustration.
D. Reference to others being frustrated in wanting help, support, protection from speaker.
Person Involved in Frustrated Dependency Strivings
1. Self or self and others.
2. Others or unspecified.
Time of Occurrence of Frustrated Dependency Strivings
a. Past.
b. Present.
c. Future or unspecified.
All weights are +1. A score tag has three components: (1) a type, (2) a person, and (3) a time. For example, a denial of dependency striving by the self occuring in the past would be tagged C1a, and would be weighted +1.