Table 1.

Items and Dimensions of the Fatalism Scale

Dimension	Item
Predetermination	1. If someone is meant to get a serious disease, it doesn’t matter what kinds of  food they eat, they will get that disease anyway.
	2. If someone is meant to get a serious disease, they will get it no matter what  they do.
	3. If someone gets a serious disease, that’s the way they were meant to die.
	4. If someone is meant to have a serious disease, they will get that disease.
	5. If someone has a serious disease and gets treatment for it, they will probably  still die from it.
	6. If someone was meant to have a serious disease, it doesn’t matter what  doctors and nurses tell them to do, they will get the disease anyway.
	7. How long I live is predetermined.
	8. I will die when I am fated to die.
	9. My health is determined by fate.
	10. My health is determined by something greater than myself.
Luck	11. I will get diseases if I am unlucky.
	12. My health is a matter of luck.
	13. How long I live is a matter of luck.
	14. I will stay healthy if I am lucky.
Pessimism	15. Everything that can go wrong for me does.
	16. I will have a lot of pain from illness.
	17. I will suffer a lot from bad health.
	18. I often feel helpless in dealing with the problems of life.
	19. Sometimes I feel that I’m being pushed around in life.
	20. There is really no way I can solve some of the problems I have.