Anxiety Test

UNIT 5 ANXIETY TEST

Structure
5.0 Objectives
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Anxiety Tests
5.3 Guidelines for Administering the Tests
5.4 Let Us Sum Up
5.5 Further Readings

5.0 OBJECTIVES
After going through this unit, you will be able to:

l identify the anxiety tests available to measure anxiety;

l differentiate the tests available to test different areas for example, school anxiety,
sexual anxiety, job anxiety etc.;

l select the best method needed for your requirement;

l select and administer simple tests of anxiety for self and others and try to interpret
them; and

l use these tests for the benefit of your patient.

5.1 INTRODUCTION
All of us experience stress in life and one of the commonest reaction to stress is anxiety.
Any situation that threatens the well being of the organism produces a state of anxiety.
Conflict and frustration that blocks the individual’s attachment of his/her goal provides
another source of anxiety. Anxiety but worry, apprehension, fear or tension, we all
experience. All of us react differently to different situation. The extent of response varied
from individual to individual. Freud differentiated between objective anxiety and neurotic
anxiety. Objective anxiety is a realistic response to perceived danger in the environment,
whereas neurotic anxiety is stemmed from an unconscious conflict within an individual.
There are varying degrees of anxiety ranging from mild apprehension to panic. To cope
with this anxiety we use defense mechanism. Certain individuals develop behaviour
patterns that avoid rather than cope with problems. If realistic solution is achieved, the
individual remains in a state of severe anxiety or may resort to other means of reducing
anxiety. Persistent higher levels of anxiety lead to neurotic reactions to day-to-day
situations and may manifest in neurotic diseases. These higher levels of anxiety are
sometime not visible and need to be explored psychometrically. These are tests available
to measure the anxiety levels, which help in identifying mild, moderate and high levels of
anxiety in individuals. Once identified it is easier to work on anxiety reaction and other
neurotic disorders.

The present unit will give you an idea of tests available to measure anxiety and its degree.
There are tests not only to measure anxiety but also to areas, where anxiety reactions are
more frequent. After going through this unit you will be aware of the commonly used
anxiety tests for different age groups and for different issue related anxieties.

5.2 ANXIETY TESTS

There are several tests, by both Indian and foreign authors available to measure the
anxiety level. These tests are in Hindi and as well as English and for different age
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responses to statements given in the test. Certain personality tests also cover the
dimension of anxiety where depending upon the scores acquired, the individual is
classified as mildly anxious to highly anxious.

Commonly Used Anxiety Tests

1) State Trait Anxiety Test (STAT): It is a test in English. Five out of 20 personality
dimensions that it tests contain immediate manifest content suggesting psychiatric
symptoms of anxiety. It covers items like tension, guilt proneness, maturity,
suspiciousness and self control. Higher levels of anxiety are indicated by higher
scores attained on these dimensions. This test has 40 items meant for the age group
from 14 to adulthood. Easily scoreable.

2) Sinha’s Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) by Sinha and Sinha: It is a test

available both in Hindi and as well as in English. It covers five levels of anxiety.
The test contains 90 items of manifest anxiety. It is 15 to 20 minutes test, easily
administrable and scorable.

3) Sinha Anxiety Scale by Prof. D Sinha: This is an another test on anxiety

consisting of 100 items, all in positive form, taken from the following areas :

i) Health, appearance and injury

ii) Area of ambition

iii) Family anxieties

iv) Friendship and love anxieties

v) Social relationship and approval

vi) Worries of future

vii) Worries of civilization, war, virtue

viii) Guilt or shame

ix) Physical and psychological manifestation

x) Psychological manifestations.

4) Indian Adaptation of Saran Sons General Anxiety Scale for School Going
children by A.Kumar: This is a test in Hindi, widely used with school children of
both sexes. This scale contains 45 items related to varied life situations like health,
physical appearances and injury, success and failure in work, afraid of animals and
strange things, social relations and approvals, working regarding family members,
worries and future happenings and afraid of loneliness which antiquates dangerous
and painful consequences.

5) IPAT Anxiety Scale by R.B. Cattell, S.E. Krug and I.H. Scheier: It is a very
convenient and practical measure of anxiety level. It is constituted on the basis of 5
principal, 16 personality factors namely emotional stability, suspiciousness, guilt
proneness, low integration and tension. It is meant for 16 years and adult. It is a
widely used test with adults, college and high school children. There is an Indian
adaptation of IPAT anxiety scale by Dr.S.D. Kapoor, which is widely with less
literate or illiterate adults. It is a Hindi version of the test.
6) Academy Anxiety Scale by Prof. Pal, Mishra and Panday: This scale is designed
to measure fear of failure as perceived by the students due to perceived inability to
perform better as an academic front. It provides a measure of psychological, social
and psychological problems due to perceived failure in school situations. The list
contains 35 items with no time limit.
7) Academic Anxiety scale for children by A.K. Singh and A.Gupta: It is a brief scale
of 20 items and is meant for school childrens of class 8 to 10th (age 13-16 years). It
40 measures academic anxiety.
8) Sexual Anxiety Scale by P. Kumar: This is test to measure sexual anxiety. It Anxiety Test
contains 16 highly sensitive items presented in a four point rating format and group
into four areas – sexual potency, sexual inhibition, sexual attractiveness and sexual
monotony. This test is for both male and female groups.

9) Death Anxiety Scale by Dhar, Mehta and Dhar: It is a test with 10 items with yes
or no answers. It measures the degree of death anxiety. It is reliable and valid list to
measure the death anxiety. Marks are available on the subjects between 25-55 years.

10) Fear of Personal Death Scale by H. Rajamanickam: It contains 40 statement

which are divided into 7 subscale – reaction to death, the fear, deprivation of
personal fulfilments, deprivation of companionship, social attachment, deprivation of
relatives and friends, supernatural awareness, destruction of the self, retribution
after death. The high score indicates strong or tense fear whereas low score
indicates the least fear or no fear.

11) Job Anxiety Scale by Prof. M.M. Sinha and Dr. A.K. Srivastava: This a scale to
evaluate job related anxiety. The scale comprises of 80 items which reveal
employees anxiety being manifested in the context of the following seven
components of the job :

a) Job security and safety

b) Recognition

c) Human relations at work

d) Reward and punishment

e) Self-esteem and self-image

f) Future prospects

g) Capacity to work.

This is in brief about the anxiety tests commonly used. There are many more tests
available to measure anxiety levels. One may select one, depending upon the need,
purpose, area of anxiety and the respondent age, sex, educational background and
cultural background.

5.3 GUIDELINES FOR ADMINISTERING THE TEST

Developing gives professional rapport with the respondent is very important to get valid
answer. Assuring confidentiality and explaining the importance of authentic answers
does help to get cooperation from him.

A friendly, relaxed and cheerful manner on the part of examiner helps to reassure the
patient. The instruction should be clearly explained in a simple language.

Activity

To evaluate your anxiety levels take the test included in the unit. This is ‘Sinha’s
Comprehensive Anxiety Test’ by Sinha and Sinha. This is a very easy and simple test. It
contains 90 items with answers ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Higher scores obtained in the test
indicate greater anxiety levels.

Administer the test to five individuals to become familiar with the test and its scoring
procedure. For more details about levels of anxiety, you may read the manual of the test.

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12) Are your muscles always tense? Yes No Anxiety Test

13) While going out of station do you often feel that you will miss the train? Yes No

14) Do you feel that you are not having enough sleep? Yes No

15) Do you always want to keep yourself busy to forget your problems? Yes No

16) Due to the boredom from your worries you want to run away to
some far off place? Yes No

17) Do you often commit such mistakes which are difficult to reform? Yes No

18) Have you committed some mistake which is bothering you too much? Yes No

19) Are you afraid of going to high places? Yes No

20) Do you often feel weak physically? Yes No

21) Do you often feel that life will always remain painful? Yes No

22) When you are in distress and somebody expresses sympathy with
you do your eyes fill up with tears? Yes No

23) Do you often feel that you are helpless? Yes No

24) Are you often lost in yourself? Yes No

25) Do you often work under tense situation? Yes No

26) Do you often remain worried? Yes No

27) Do you often remain mentally perplexed? Yes No

28) Do you often feel suffocated because of fear? Yes No

29) Do you become agitated when you are condemned? Yes No

30) Do you feel that your life is full of darkness? Yes No

31) Even after full preparations do you feel afraid of failure? Yes No

32) Do you often feel that you are going to be completely ruined? Yes No

33) Do you become nervous if there comes a situation in which earlier

you have suffered a great loss? Yes No

34) Do you think that life is full of disappointment? Yes No

35) Do you feel very nervous if somebody becomes unconscious? Yes No

36) Do you often remain perplexed due to some or the other problem? Yes No

37) Do you often think over past happenings? Yes No

38) Do you get disturbed when you see that other people are having
wrong conceptions about you? Yes No

39) Do you often feel tired physically? Yes No

40) Do small things become problematic for you? Yes No

41) Are you often afraid of infectious diseases? Yes No

42) Do you often do such work about which you feel repentant? Yes No

43) Do you shiver even while imagining about failure? Yes No

44) Are you often worried about useless things? Yes No

45) Do you often get nervous when some ill omen happens? Yes No 47
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