Psychologists Have Invented a Test to Measure Your Secret Need for Drama

(Photo: Chip Simons/Getty Images) By Melissa Dahl Years ago, in a left-behind version of his professional life, psychologist Scott Frankowski worked in an office. Seated next to him in this office was a particularly memorable colleague, who was perfectly nice, but who each day seemed to have some new, huge personal problem to share. "She was really cool, and fun to chat with, but I was like, How is your life just this cycle of crisis?" recalls Frankowski, now a researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso. "It was minor stuff, but it was just taken to a whole other level. 'Oh my gosh, my kid is sick.' Or 'I'm leaving work early.' I was just like, 'Really?' How is this always happening?'" Related: So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion More recently, he remembered his former co-worker while musing over the "It's complicated" relationship status on Facebook. "Who would post that? It just says so much," he said. "To be in a complicated relationship is one thing. But then to go in and make that public -- again, it just takes it to a whole new level." Who are these people, he wondered, who seem to sincerely believe that their lives are laden with gigantic problems, no matter how small the problems actually are? He had a hunch, he told Science of Us, that there must be "some underlying trait to this -- something that is driving people to have lives filled with chaos." Introducing Frankowski's attempt to pin down this trait: the "need for drama" scale, which he and...
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