Padua inventory
Contamination Anxiety Quiz
Are you concerned about cleanliness and contamination? This quiz is designed to help you assess your feelings and behaviors related to cleanliness and hygiene.
Discover how your emotions and thoughts about contamination impact your daily life. Take a few moments to reflect upon the following:
- How do you react to touching objects in public?
- What is your approach to cleanliness in various situations?
- How often do you find yourself checking things multiple times?
Gender
Male
Female
Age
18 - 22
23-26
27 - 30
Race
White or Caucasian
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino
Asian or Asian American
American Indian or Alaska Native
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
Other
Arab
Marital status
Married
Single in relationship
Official Divorced
Single without relationship
Affective divorced
Education
Secondary (high school)
Tertiary (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent)
Postgraduate (Masters, PhD)
Other
I feel my hands are dirty when I touch money.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I think even slight contact with bodily secretions (perspiration, saliva urine, etc.) may contaminate my clothes or somehow harm me.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I find it difficult to touch an object when I know it has been touched by strangers or by certain people.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I avoid using public toilets because I am afraid of disease and contamination.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I avoid using public telephones because I am afraid of contagion and disease.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I wash my hands more often and longer than necessary.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I sometimes have to wash or clean myself simply because I think I may be dirty or “contaminated”.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
If I touch something I think is “contaminated”, I immediately have to wash or clean myself.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
If an animal touches me, I feel dirty and immediately have to wash myself or change my clothing.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I feel obliged to follow a particular order in dressing, undressing, and washing myself.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Before going to sleep, I have to do certain things in a certain order.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Before going to bed, I have to hang up or fold my clothes in a special way.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I have to do things several times before I think they are properly done.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I tend to keep on checking things more often than necessary.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I check and recheck gas and water taps and light switches after turning them off.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I return home to check doors, windows, drawers, etc., to make sure they are properly shut.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I keep on checking forms, documents, checks, etc., in detail to make sure I have filled them in correctly.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I keep on going back to see that matches, cigarettes, etc, are properly extinguished.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I handle money, I count and recount it several times.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I check letters carefully many times before posting them.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Sometimes I am not sure I have done things which in fact I knew I have done.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I read, I have the impression I have missed something important and must go back and reread the passage at least two or three times.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I imagine catastrophic consequences as a result of absent-mindedness or minor errors which I make.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I think or worry at length about having hurt someone without knowing it.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I hear about a disaster, I think it is somehow my fault.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I sometimes worry at length for no reason that I have hurt myself or have some disease.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I get upset and worried at the sight of knives, daggers, and other pointed objects.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I hear about a suicide or a crime, I am upset for a long time and find it difficult to stop thinking about it.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I invent useless worries about germs and disease.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I look down from a bridge or a very high window, I feel an impulse to throw myself into space.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
When I see a train approaching, I sometimes think I could throw myself under its wheels.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
At certain moments, I am tempted to tear off my clothes in public.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
While driving, I sometimes feel an impulse to drive the car into someone or something.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Seeing weapons excites me and makes me think violent thoughts.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I sometimes feel the need to break or damage things for no reason.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I sometimes have an impulse to steal other people’s belongings, even if they are of no use to me.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I am sometimes almost irresistibly tempted to steal something from the supermarket.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
I sometimes have an impulse to hurt defenseless children or animals.
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
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