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State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) Test

Understand a child’s in-the-moment and overall anxiety in about 8 minutes. Fast, kid-friendly, and reliable, it supports early screening and tracking progress over time.
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October 2, 2025
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39/60
Trait Anxiety (TA)
Personal Anxiety measures a child's stable tendency to feel anxious across many situations rather than only in a specific moment.
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20 – 30: Low | 31 – 45: Moderate | 46 – 60: High
A score of 39 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a typical but noticeable tendency to experience anxiety across different situations.
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46/60
State Anxiety (SA)
Situational Anxiety measures how strongly a child is currently experiencing tension, worry, uncertainty, agitation, and fear in response to the present situation.
Low
Moderate
High
20 – 30: Low | 31 – 45: Moderate | 46 – 60: High
A score of 46 falls in the High range, indicating a strong current anxiety response that is likely tied to the child’s immediate circumstances.
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Who Usually Takes This Test?
School psychologists and counselors
41%OF USERS
Use it to quickly screen anxiety levels in students and plan support during school adaptation or stressful periods.
Parents of anxious children
34%OF USERS
Take it to understand whether a child’s worries are situational right now or a more stable tendency that affects daily life.
Child therapists and clinics
25%OF USERS
Use it to assess baseline anxiety and track changes over time during counseling or after interventions.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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Once you finish the test, your results will be compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of the benchmarks we use to place your score in context.
Personal Anxiety (PA)
Average
34.8
Normal range
28.5 — 41
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Situational Anxiety (SA)
Average
48.8
Normal range
43.8 — 53.7
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60
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What does this questionnaire measure?
It measures two forms of anxiety: situational anxiety (how tense the child feels in the moment) and trait anxiety (how prone the child is to anxiety in general). Scores are reported separately for each form.
Who is this questionnaire intended for?
It is intended for children in grades 3 through 7. It is suitable for school and clinical settings where brief screening is needed.
How long does it take and how many items are included?
It includes 40 items and typically takes about 8 minutes to complete. The format is brief and uses simple statements.
How should responses be completed?
Responses are given for two time frames: how the child feels right now and how the child usually feels. Items should be answered without overthinking and without skipping.
How are results used in practice?
Results help identify elevated anxiety and distinguish temporary stress reactions from a stable anxiety tendency. They can also support monitoring of change over time after support or intervention.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES
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State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) Test

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This instrument is used to assess anxiety in children by differentiating situational symptoms from more enduring anxiety tendencies. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) is commonly administered in clinical, school, and research settings to support screening and outcome monitoring.

It consists of 40 items and typically requires about 8 minutes to complete. Items ask children to rate how they feel “right now” versus “generally,” yielding separate indices intended to reflect state and trait anxiety. Results are interpreted within the broader clinical context and are not, by themselves, diagnostic. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) was originally developed as a child-focused adaptation of the state–trait anxiety framework.

Author: charles-d-spielberger
Literature: Spielberger, C. D. Manual for the state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI). Consulting Psychologists Press. 1983.; Muris, P., Merckelbach, H., Ollendick, T., King, N., & Bogie, N. Three traditional and three new childhood anxiety questionnaires: Their reliability and validity in a normal adolescent sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 2002.; Beck, J. S. Cognitive behavior therapy: Basics and beyond. Guilford Press. 1995.; Taylor, J. A. A personality scale of manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1953.
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