Why Try POST-Survey Middle/High School - 2009-2010 School Year

Name: ______School: ______Grade: ______Check one: Male Female

Why Try POST-survey – Middle/High School - 2009-2010 school year

Directions: Please answer the following questions as honestly as you can. There are no right or wrong answers. We are just interested in learning about your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Circle the number from 1 to 5 that best reflects the way you feel right now.

1. When you have a problem do you give up easily or Give up Keep trying keep trying? 1 2 3 4 5 2. Do you believe what you do or think today will change I don’t think so I think so your future? 1 2 3 4 5 3. Do you pay more attention to your strengths (what you My weaknesses My strengths do well) or weaknesses (what you don’t do well)? 1 2 3 4 5 4. If someone is mean to you, are you more likely to be Be mean Work it out mean to them or try to work it out? 1 2 3 4 5 5. How likely are you to give in to friends and do things Likely to give in Not give in that you don’t want to do? 1 2 3 4 5 6. Which do you think is more important, working hard Hanging out Working hard or hanging out? 1 2 3 4 5 7. Do you feel that you know how to solve your problems Don’t know what to do Know what to do or do you feel that you don’t know what to do? 1 2 3 4 5 8. Do you believe that laws and rules help you or just Make more difficult Help me make your life more difficult? 1 2 3 4 5 9. When you have problems do you ask for help from Not ask for help Ask for help others or not ask for help? 1 2 3 4 5 10. Do you see your future as happy and successful or sad Sad Happy and full of problems? 1 2 3 4 5 11. Do you believe the choices you make each day will Will not change Will change change the way people think about you? 1 2 3 4 5 12. When you are angry, do you act out or try to calm Act out Calm down down (walk away, think of positive things)? 1 2 3 4 5 Name: ______School: ______Grade: ______Check one: Male Female

Why Try POST-survey – Middle/High School - 2009-2010 school year

Directions: The six sentences below describe how teens think about themselves and how they do things in general. Read each sentence carefully. For each sentence, please think about how you are in most situations. Circle the choice that describes YOU the best. For example, circle “None of the time,” if this describes you. Or if you are this way “All of the time,” circle that choice. There are no right or wrong answers.

None of the A little of Some of the A lot of the Most of the All of the time the time time time time time 13. I think I am doing pretty well in life. 1 2 3 4 5 6 14. I can think of many ways to get the things in life that are most important to 1 2 3 4 5 6 me. 15. I am doing just as well as other teens 1 2 3 4 5 6 my age. 16. When I have a problem, I can come up 1 2 3 4 5 6 with lots of ways to solve it. 17. I think the things I have done in the 1 2 3 4 5 6 past will help me in the future. 18. Even when others want to quit, I know 1 2 3 4 5 6 that I can find ways to solve problems.