Well done, you have now completed the CLINQOL Quiz that looks at how well you balance external quality of life and internal well-being! You will shortly receive in your inbox an email titled: New submission from CLINQOL Short Form.
SUMMARY OF STEPS
1. Internal Well-Being score
The Internal Well-Being section has 10 questions (5 areas with two questions each.
To obtain your External Quality of Life score add up the 10 questions (each question is out of 5) to get your score out of 50.
2. External Quality of Life scoreÂ
The External Quality of Life section has 10 questions (5 areas with two questions each – relationships, work, money, health, and leisure).
To obtain your External Quality of Life score add up the 10 questions (each question is out of 5) to get your score out of 50.
3. Quality of Life percentage
To obtain your total, add up the 20 questions to get your quality of life score out of 100 (each question is out of 5). This is overall quality of life percentage (eg 70%).
Action Steps
1. See what you can improve by reviewing your scores in each of the life areas.
2. Identify what may be your weak or strong points.
3. Set an ideal goal of what you would like them to look like.
For example: “I have a loving relationship where I can talk through problems with ease and sucesss.” or “I have a peaceful state of mind that is independent of life’s problems.”
4. Write one simple action that would improve each of these areas.
These could be something like: “I will create a regular savings plan on Tuesday that I can stick to” or “I will meditate each morning for 15-30 mins starting tomorrow.”
Best of luck!
Dr Patrick Jones
This quiz is an abbreviation of the full CLINQOL Scale and you can also read the full article – (Citation: Jones, P., Drummond, P. (2022). The construction of a new Clinical Quality of Life Scale (CLINQOL). BMC Psychol., 10, 210).
The process of awakening is a remarkable experience when doing it alone, but it seems to me that having a teacher allows a person to truly understand the experience and experience it fully.
It doesn’t need to be a battle to integrate awareness and mindfulness techniques…it’s the space and serenity which will enrich me…concrete techniques that don’t appear to be ‘onerous’ give me hope that I can integrate them.
Penny dropped for me – ‘ahha moment’ about not putting my happiness in anyone else’s hands. Sense of self/happiness is within – not controlled by external factors. Forgot this!
Reinforced the primary issue of living in the moment and reaching the true inner self. Keep up the good work spreading the word.
Easy to understand broken down in this way. ‘Stay in Present’. Don’t let my beliefs affect how I see ‘people’ situations etc. Declutter mind is very essential.
I am thrilled that you gave this information to the West so well and easily. Maybe it was a lot for some? It was fantastic! Thank you.
The ‘Who am I’ exercise was a very powerful one for me with a resulting ‘aha’ moment…Reinforcement of my knowing that external factors are not all they are cracked up to be. A spotlight on this. A reminder of what really matters. QOL (quality of life) exercises were extremely helpful.
The training I have received…has had a huge impact on my life. It has allowed me to see life from a different perspective, bringing a greater awareness and a freshness to the way I live from moment to moment
Everything just dropped away – kind of quite frightening…Too scared to go on a journey – now someone shows you the gates and says when do you want to go – can go anyway – and you’ll be OK.
Like an awakening – seeing things that always slipped under the radar.
A kind of restful way to live.
Since I’ve started this stuff, people feel more comfortable approaching me.
I just feel well and nothing in my external life has changed…I feel more conscious from the small to the big things.
External things don’t have any power to upset me other than that which I let it. I’m not who I thought I was. I am not what others think of me. I’m optimistic. Baggage is sliding off me. Make this available to more people.
After taking part in mindfulness training sessions I feel more in contact with my true self and hence my reality has emerged very unexpectedly and profoundly. I can see how my mind was projecting all the fear and unreality into my decisions. Now I feel more at peace and happy. This was a gift from God to me at the right time and with the right people.
Great way of looking at things – can’t wait to put them into practice.
Fantastic – Looking forward to applying it…set goals – be true to yourself – take time out to know what is important…Really impressed by how much was covered
(I saw) You can feel good for no external reason and I am relying to much on external factors to feel happy and complete.
I felt that I contacted my ‘core’ and have a chance to hold that and build better relationships.