Another defender here! I think, though, that if I had taken the same test twenty years ago, the results would have been totally different. I am a lot less emotionally surefooted than I was when I was before I retired. I didn't have the time to worry about things and turn every situation inside out that I do now. I agree that we are not born unhappy but are products of our upbringing. I was inwardly very unhappy as a child, and as a young adult, and spent most of my life trying to turn that round and find the confidence I never had. Never quite managed it and in older age I seem to struggle again, which does lead to periods of gloom and despondency. Fortunately DH has enough optimism, good humour and confidence for a regiment, so I try and feed off him!