Cognitive-Somatic Anxiety Questionnaire

Elizabeth Zanatta Colin*

Cognitive Anxiety
Alterations in thinking that occur in situations that seem threatening. Such disturbances
may include difficulties concentrating, worrying, or thoughts that cause fear.

SCALE
Applied to : Psychology degree students.
Application : Group.
Reagents
14 affirmations
Response options
From Not at all (1) to Quite a bit (5).
Subscales
Cognitive Anxiety: Reagents 1 to 7
Somatic Anxiety: Reagents 8 to 14

QUALIFICATION
Obtaining the individual score
Add the value given to each of the reactants and divide it by the total number of
reactants.
Score
From 14 to 70 points
Cognitive Anxiety Subscale: From 7 to 35 points
Somatic Anxiety Subscale: From 7 to 35 points
Interpretation
The higher the score, the greater somatic cognitive anxiety.

*
Zanatta Colin, Elizabeth (2001). Anxiety and confrontation: Psychopedagogical Profile of a higher level
student community . Master's Thesis in Clinical Psychology. Faculty of Psychology, UNAM. Based on
Schwartz, G., Davidson, R. And Goleman, D. (1978). Patterning of cognitive and somatic processes in
the self-regulation of anxiety: Effects of meditation versus exercise . Psychosomatic Medicine, 40, 321-
328.
 PSYCHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS
Reliability
Cognitive Anxiety Factor:  = 0.83
Somatic Anxiety Factor:  = 0.80
Validity
There were two factors that explained 50.2% of the total variance. The percentage of the
variance explained by each of the factors was the following:
Cognitive Anxiety Factor: 40.9%
Somatic Anxiety Factor: 9.3%
Factorial analysis

AUTHORS APP
Subjects
566 undergraduate students in psychology, of which 83.7% were female and 16.3%
were male; They were aged between 16 and 35 years. 89.9% of the students dedicated
themselves exclusively to studying and 92.9% of the total sample were single. Along
with this questionnaire, the List of Symptoms or Psychophysiological Effects of Stress
and the Coping Styles Questionnaire were also applied (instruments that can be
consulted in this work).
Results
Socks
Cognitive Anxiety Subscale: 3.61
Somatic Anxiety Subscale: 3.03
Standard deviations:
Cognitive Anxiety Subscale: 1.12
Somatic Anxiety Subscale: 1.04
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Elizabeth Zanatta Colin

From 1 to 5
1. I find it difficult to concentrate 1 2 3 4 5
2. I worry too much 1 2 3 4 5
3. I imagine terrifying scenes 1 2 3 4 5
4. I can't get anxiety-provoking images out of my mind. 1 2 3 4 5
5. Thoughts that bother me cross my mind 1 2 3 4 5
6. I can't think fast enough 1 2 3 4 5
7. I can't get rid of thoughts that cause me anxiety. 1 2 3 4 5
8. My heart beats faster 1 2 3 4 5
9. I feel shaky in my body 1 2 3 4 5
10. It makes me want to go to the bathroom more 1 2 3 4 5
11. I feel tension in my stomach 1 2 3 4 5
12. I walk nervously 1 2 3 4 5
13. I am paralyzed 1 2 3 4 5
14. I sweat too much 1 2 3 4 5