Adolescent Anxiety Questionnaire Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Example Questions From the Test
- Applies to me
- Does not apply to me
- Applies to me
- Does not apply to me
- Applies to me
- Does not apply to me
Adolescent Anxiety Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test
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People who want to understand recurring fears, worry, embarrassment, and tension can use this questionnaire as a structured self-reflection tool. The Adolescent Anxiety Questionnaire Test is intended for adolescents and examines how anxiety may appear in thoughts, emotions, bodily reactions, and everyday situations. As an adolescent anxiety assessment, it can help organize a result around patterns that may deserve closer attention in daily life.
What This Assessment Measures
These items cover worry before medical visits, concern about illness or harm, discomfort in darkness or open spaces, unease in unfamiliar groups, sensitivity to others’ opinions, and anxious thoughts that disrupt study or sleep. Physical reactions include blushing, sweating, and shaking; other items touch on concentration, mood, and feeling unable to manage problems.
The result presents two scales, one describing response style and one describing anxiety:
- Lie Scale (0-6) assesses socially desirable responding and self-report distortion; 0-3 means Low distortion risk, while 4-6 means Elevated distortion risk.
- Anxiety Level (0-34) assesses overall anxiety in adolescents; 0-7 means Low, 8-19 means Moderate, and 20-34 means High.
These themes are relevant to anxiety symptoms in adolescents. A high score may indicate pronounced anxiety, while a very low score may reflect suppression, so individual circumstances matter. Endorsing more than three items on this measure warrants caution when interpreting the profile.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Statements use self-report choices, usually Applies to me or Does not apply to me; some use True of me. Because some deny fear or worry, anxious-sounding words should not be counted mechanically. Responses feed the two scales, but each answer’s point value is unspecified; the ranges do not reveal it.
Item themes and the yes-or-no response style most closely resemble the Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (CMAS), described by Castaneda, McCandless, and Palermo (1956). Its revised CMAS-R was developed by Reynolds and Richmond (1978). Taylor’s adult Manifest Anxiety Scale (1953) is a historical precursor; Kendall’s study (1954) offers related validity context. The displayed bands are interpretive labels attached to the result; these instruments provide context, not this questionnaire’s scoring rules.
For interpretation, an anxiety test for adolescents indicates how strongly anxiety-related experiences are endorsed in current self-report. The result should be read alongside concerns raised by the questions, including fears, worries, embarrassment, physical reactions, concentration, sleep, and coping. Mood, memory, self-awareness, social desirability, and efforts to minimize or emphasize difficulties can affect the pattern. A score alone cannot establish a clinical condition or explain why it is present.
- Taylor, J. A. (1953). A personality scale of manifest anxiety. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 48(2), 285-290. 10.1037/h0056264
- Castaneda, A., McCandless, B. R., & Palermo, D. S. (1956). The children's form of the manifest anxiety scale. Child Development, 27, 317-326.
- Kendall, E. J. (1954). The validity of Taylor's manifest anxiety scale. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 18(6), 429-432. 10.1037/h0057760
- Reynolds, C. R., & Richmond, B. O. (1978). What I think and feel: A revised measure of children's manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 6(2), 271-280. 10.1007/BF00919131