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 Centre for Ethnic Minority Mental Health

Part 1:  (Please answer ALL questions)

 

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1.   Your Age at last birthday:

2. Your Gender:

3. Your Marital status:

4. How would you define yourself, ethnically?

Black or Black British:

5. What is the highest level of academic qualification you have attained?

6. What is your accessible annual income?

7. Below is a copy of the ‘von Luschan Skin Tone Chart’. This series does not represent all possible skin tones. Can you please indicate which skin tone most represents your own on an unexposed part of your body?

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Part 2:

Instructions: This questionnaire assesses concerns about physical appearance. Please read each question carefully and check the answer that best describes your experience. Also write in answers where indicated.

1. Do other people appear concerned about the appearance of some part of your body, which they consider especially unattractive??

 

2. What do think these concerns are? What specifically bothers them about the appearance of these body parts?

 

3. If, they are at least somewhat concerned, do these concerns preoccupy you? That is, you think about them a lot and they’re hard to stop thinking about? (Check the best answer )

 

4. What effect has their preoccupation with your physical appearance had on your life? Please describe):

   

 

5. Does their behaviour towards you often caused you a lot of distress, torment or pain? How much? (Please check the best answer)

 

6. Has other people’s apparent concern with your physical appearance significantly interfered with your relationships at home, school, college, work, or your ability tio function in your role or other important areas of your life? And if so how much? (Please check the best answer)

 

7. Do you ever avoid thing because of other people’s apparent concern with your physical appearance? And if so how much? (Please check the best answer).

 

 

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Part 3:

Instructions: This part of the questionnaire looks at how you represent relationships within your own mind. Please read each statement carefully, and highlight the answer that best describes your experience.

 

1) When I close my eyes and think about my past experiences, most of the images that come to mind are of me with:

 

a) ) People who make racist comments about other black people, but it’s not serious, and it doesn’t involve me.

 

b) People who make insulting remarks about other black people, but they always make a point of excluding me:

 

c) People who never mention the colour of my skin, my hair texture, or the thickness of my lips, but I know they have a significant effect on how they respond to me:

 

d) People like to socialise with me, but they wouldn’t want other people like me to have a personal relationship with any member of their families:

 

2) When I close my eyes and think about my past experiences, most of the images that come to mind of me with:

 

a) People who make racist remarks about some aspect of my black body.

 

b) People who tell me how much they don't like the darkness of my skin colour, my lips or texture of texture:

 

c) People who make racist jokes, and usually direct them at me.

 

d) People who say insulting things about my skin colour, shape of my nose, or the thickness of my lips, and don’t seem to care if it makes me feel unwanted and unhappy.

 

3) When I close my eyes and think about my past experiences, most of the images that come to mind show me with:

 

a) People who rarely, if ever, socialise with anyone who is not from the same racial background.

 

b) People who often make more positive remarks about the colour of my skin, the shape of my nose, texture of my hair, or thickness of my lips, than they do people from other racial backgrounds

 

c) People who made me feel valued as black person, more so than they do about people from other racial backgrounds

 

d) People who prefer to be with other people from the same racial background; to the exclusion of people from other racial backgrounds.

 

4) When I close my eyes and think about my past experiences, most of the images that come to mind show me with:

 

a) People who value their own individual racial identity, as much as they do, others.

 

b) People who often make positive statements about the physical bodies of people from different racial backgrounds.

 

c) People who accept racial difference, and encourage socialising between different racial backgrounds

 

d) People who accept both the positive and negative aspects of their own physical bodies.

 

 

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Part 4:

This questionnaire consists of 15 statements about experiences that you may have in your daily life. We are interested in the strength of your agreement with these statements; when you are not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. (Using the drop-down menu, indicate to what extent you agree or disgree with the statement)

 

1. There are things I prefer not to think about:

 

2. Sometimes, I wonder why I have the thoughts I do.

 

3. I have thoughts that I can not stop.

 

4. There are images that come to mind that I can not erase.

 

5. My thoughts frequently return to one idea.

 

6. I wish I could stop thinking of certain things..

 

 

7. Sometimes  my mind races so fast I wish I could stop it.

 

8. I always try to put problems out of mind.

 

9. There are thoughts that keep jumping into my head.

 

10. Sometimes, I stay busy just to keep thoughts from intruding on my mind.

 

11. There are things that I try not to think about.

 

12. Sometimes, I stay bust just to keep thoughts from intruding on my mind.

 

13. I often do things to distract myself from my thoughts.

 

14. I often have thoughts that I try to avoid.

 

15. There are many thoughts that I have that I don’t tell anyone.

 

 

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Part 5:

 Please choose the degree to which you agree or disagree with each statement from the drop-down menu.

Please respond to ALL statements.

 

1. I feel that I am a person of worth, at least on an equal basis with others.

2. At times I think I am no good at all

3. I feel that I have a number of good qualities.

4. All in all, I am inclined to feel that I am a failure.

5. I am able to do things as well as most other people.

6. I feel I do not have much to be proud of

7. I take a positive attitude toward myself

8. On the whole, I am satisfied with myself.

9. I wish I could have more respect for myself.

10. I certainly feel useless at times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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