Anxiety is a common and often debilitating mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It can manifest in various forms, such as social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder. As healthcare professionals strive to better understand and treat anxiety, the use of psychological instruments for measuring and assessing its levels has become increasingly valuable. These tools provide valuable insights into the severity of anxiety and help clinicians tailor effective treatment plans for individuals. In this essay, we will explore some of the most commonly used psychological instruments for measuring and assessing levels of anxiety.

A

Acceptance of Modern Myths About Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) scale
Achievement Anxiety Test
Active Where? Surveys
Adjunctive Couple/Family Therapy for Anxiety Disorders Study
Adolescent Pain Questionnaire (BAPQ)
Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA 27)
Affect Intensity Measure (AIM) (Long and Short Form)
Analytic Audit Tool and Checklist Audit Tool
Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS)
Anxiety Disorder Diagnostic Questionnaire (ADDQ)
ANXIOUS THOUGHTS INVENTORY (AnTI)
Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI)
Appearance Anxiety Scale (AAS)
Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity Scale
Appraisal of Diabetes Scale (ADS)
Assessment of disruptive Symptoms (ASD-IV-P)
Attachment Style Classification Questionnaire for Latency Age Children
Attentional Resource Allocation Scale (ARAS)
Attitudes to Surgical Checklist Questionnaire
Autism Worries Survey (AWS) (Parent Version)

B

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
Berlin Social Support Scales (BSSS)
Body Sensations Interpretation Questionnaire (BSIQ)
Brief Measure of Worry Severity (BMWS)
BRIEF PATIENT HEALTH QESTIONAIRE (Brief PHQ)
Brief-COPE questionnaire (Brief-COPE)

C

Child Anxiety Life Interference Scale (CALIS)
Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)
Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI-24)
Classroom Anxiety Measure
Classroom Anxiety scale
Clinical Simulation Evaluation Tool (CSET)
Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale (CUXOS)
Coherence Inferences Test
Collaborative Parent Involvement Scale
Competitive Sport Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2)
Computer Anxiety Rating Scale – CARS
Condensed Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (CMSAS)
Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for parents (CDRS-P)
Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- For Teachers (CDRS-T)
Considerations of Future Consequences (CFC Scale)
Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS)
COPE Inventory

D

Death Anxiety Resilience (DAR)
death anxiety test (DAS)
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)
Depression Anxiety Stress Scales – Long Form (DASS-42)
Depression Anxiety Stress Scales – Short Form (DASS-21)
Depression‚ Anxiety and Stress Scales DASS- 21
Depression‚ Anxiety and Stress Scales DASS- 42
Desirability of Control Scale
Direct Observation Instrument (BRAT-DO)
Disordered Eating Attitude Scale (DEAS)
Duke Anxiety-Depression Scale (DUKE-AD)
Dyadic Interactional Harmony Questionnaire (DIHQ)

E

Emotion Contagion Scale
Emotional Cognitive Scale (ECS)
Empathy/Systemising Quotient for Children (EQ/SQ)
End of Life Care Survey (EOLCS)
Environmental Worry
Evaluation Apprehension Measure

F

Faces Test
Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ)
Future Aspirations

G

GAD-7 Anxiety Severity
GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER SCALE (GADS)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener-7 (GAD-7)
Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI)
GERIATRIC ANXIETY SCALE – GAS VERSION 1.0

H

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A)
Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A)
Health Anxiety Inventory- hypochondriasis
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

I

Illness Worry Scale (IWS)
Interaction Anxiousness Scale

K

Kutcher Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder Scale for Adolescents (K-GSADS-A)

M

Masculine Gender Role Stress Scale (MGRS)

N

Non-Productive Thoughts Questionnaire

O

Organizational Frustration Scale
Organizational Practices Questionnaire

P

Pain Audit Tools (PAT)
Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS)
PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (PHQ-SADS)
Penn State Worry Questionnaire – Children (PSWQ-C)
Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)
Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)
Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Adults (PSWQ-A)
Perceptions of Love and Sex Scale
Personal Growth Initiative Scale II (PGIS-II)
Personal Report of Intercultural Communication Apprehension (PRICA)
Personal Report of Interethnic Communication Apprehension (PRECA)
Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA)
Physical Activity and Sport Anxiety Scale (PASAS)
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE STATE AND TRAIT ANXIETY SCALE

R

Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale – Child version (RCADS-Child)
Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale – Parent Version (RCADS-Parent)
Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS)
Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS)
Risk Assessment Survey for Home Healthcare Nurses
Risk assessments and Safety Management in Workplaces
Risks and Consequences Questionnaire (RCQ)

S

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)
Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders Child Version (SCARED Child)
Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders Parent Version (SCARED Parent)
Self-Consciousness Scale–(SCS-R)
Sex Anxiety Inventory
Sex Anxiety Inventory (Revised)
Shyness Scale (SS)
Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS)
Social Components of Retirement Anxiety Scale
Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS)
Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS)
Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS)
Somatic Symptom Scale – 8 (SSS-8)
Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale – Child (SCAS- Child)
Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale – Parent (SCAS- Parent)
Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS)
Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) – Parent Version
Spence preschool Anxiety Scale
Spence preschool Anxiety Scale (Teacher Version)
Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS)
Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT)
Sport Emotion Questionnaire (SEQ)
Stages of Concern Questionnaire
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory‚ (Form Y/ STAI-Y)
Stressors and Injury for Construction Workers questionnaire
Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale
Subjective Happiness Scale
Surface Warfare Officer Human Factors Attitudes Questionnaire

T

Taylor’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS)
Teaching Anxiety Scale
Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM)
Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS)
The Adolescent Health and Social Problems Scale (AHSP)
The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ-SF)
The Anxiety and Preoccupation about Sleep Questionnaire (APSQ)
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS)
The Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale (BEDS)
The Clinical Decision Making Survey (CDMS)
The Community Balance and Mobility Scale (CBMS)
The Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ)
The Emotional Contagion Scale
The Enforced Social Dependency Scale (ESDS)
The Facebook Intensity Scale (FBI)
The Family Quality of Life Scale (FQOL)
The Health Anxiety Inventory
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS)
The Multidimensional AIDS Anxiety Questionnaire (MAAQ)
The negative and positive affect scale (NAPAS)
The Neonatal Index of Parent Satisfaction (NIPS)
The Panic Attack Questionnaire
The Patient Pain Questionnaire (PPQ)
The Perceived Family Burden Scale (PFBS)
The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED)
The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire
Traumatic Events Screening Inventory (TESI)

V

Vanderbilt Assessment Scales (VAS)

W

Walkability Audit Tool
Walking Route Audit Tool for Seniors (WRATS)
Ways of Coping Scale (CAPS)
WillTry SCALE
Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT)
Worry / Rumination
Worry and Anxiety Questionnaire (WAQ)

Y

Young Child PTSD Screen
Youth Quality of Life Instrument – Short Form (YQOL-SF)

Z

Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS)