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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Ther. 2017 Nov 17;101:30–45. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2017.10.002

Table A.4.

Pearlin Mastery Scale (PMS) Items

Scale 1 = ”Strongly disagree”…7 = ”Strong agree”

1 There’s no way I can solve some of the problems I have.
2 Sometimes I feel that I am being pushed here and there in life.
3 I have little control over things that happen to me.
4 I can do anything when I put my mind to it.
5 Most of the time, I feel helpless when dealing with problems of life.
6 What happens to me in the future mostly depends on me.
7 There’s little I can do to change most of the important things in my life.