What do you understand by questionnaire ?

Questionnaire : A printed list of questions to be answered by respondents by herself or himself, is called questionnaire.

It is well worth-noting that persons are not only reluctant to openly report their feelings, plans, fears and so on, we may not be aware of many of our beliefs and hence, may not be able to report them. Nevertheless, each of us has a unique opportunity to observe himself/herself and to that extent one is in a position to and generally will communicate his knowledg about himself. But such reporting or communication, especially one that diagnoses and explains why one’s behaviour was what it was needs qualities of penetration much beyond the reach of average person. It is given to only a few to be able to engage in self-diagnosis.

The capacity to peep into depth of one’s personality is conspicuous by its absence among the people at large. It is precisely that this works to the detriment of the efficacy of the questionnaire technique.