Guilt Proneness
Dimension 916 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Guilt Proneness measures the tendency for an expression to convey self-blame, remorse, shame, and a guilty conscience in response to perceived wrongdoing, harm, or personal inadequacy. It encompasses both situational guilt after specific actions and more generalized guilt directed toward the self.
evidence final name · Guilty Feel
Minimal Guilt Proneness
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear guilt content and may instead be neutral, unrelated, or only loosely evaluative in tone. When self-evaluation appears, it is not organized around remorse, self-blame, or having done wrong.
Mild Guilt Proneness
Expressions activating this band convey occasional or situational guilt, shame, remorse, or self-blame tied to specific behaviors, consequences, or social disclosure. The guilty feeling is present but not yet pervasive or deeply elaborated.
Moderate Guilt Proneness
Expressions activating this band convey clear and recurring guilt, regret, or self-reproach, often with explicit statements of feeling guilty, blaming oneself, or feeling responsible for faults and bad outcomes. The experience is personally salient and extends beyond a single passing reaction.
High Guilt Proneness
Expressions activating this band convey strong guilt as an enduring emotional state, including deep guilt, sinfulness, or feeling bad about one's actions even when wrongdoing is ambiguous or not recognized by others. The expression reflects a broad readiness to experience guilt across situations and relationships.
Severe Guilt Proneness
Expressions activating this band convey intense, dominant guilt with highly concentrated self-condemnation and persistent guilty feeling. The expression centers on guilt as a defining emotional experience rather than an isolated response to a specific event.
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Minimal Guilty Feel: Content characterized by then, records, term, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect guilty feel at this level.
Emerging Guilty Feel: Content characterized by guilt, expensive, plan, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect guilty feel at this level.
Elevated Guilty Feel: Content characterized by guilty, conscience, feel, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect guilty feel at this level.
Severe Guilty Feel: Content characterized by guilt, guilty, doing, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect guilty feel at this level.