Table 2.
Summary Information for Youth Anxiety Self-Report Measures
| Measure & citation | Age range (years) |
Number of items & response scale |
Subscales | Translations | Open access? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC; Spielberger, 1973) | 8-14 | 40-items Response scale: 1 (hardly/lowest degree of feelings) – 3 (often/highest degree of feelings) |
Trait and State scales (20 items each) | At least 27 languages (per mindgarden.com) | No |
| Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS; Reynolds & Richmond, 1978) RCMAS-2 (Reynolds & Richmond, 2008) |
6-19 | RCMAS: 37-items RCMAS-2: 49-items Response scale: Yes/No |
RCMAS: Physiological Anxiety, Worry/Oversensitivity, Social Concerns/Concentration, Lie Scale RCMAS-2: Physiological Anxiety, Worry, Social Anxiety, Defensiveness scale |
Arabic, Bulgarian Chinese, French-Canadian, German, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu, Xhosa | No |
| Fear Survey Schedule for Children- Revised (FSSC-R; Ollendick, 1983) | 7-18 | 80-items Response scale: 1 (none) – 3 (a lot) |
Fear of Failure and Criticism; Fear of Danger and Death; Fear of Small Animals; Medical Fears; Fear of the Unknown | Arabic, Afrikaans/Xhosa, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | Yes |
| Social Anxiety Scale for Children - Revised (SASC-R; La Greca & Stone, 1993) Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A; La Greca & Lopez, 1998) |
8 -18 | SASC-R: 26-items SAS-A: 26-items (Both versions include 4 filler items) Response scale: 1 (not at all) – 5 (all the time) |
SASC-R/SAS-A: Fear of Negative Evaluation; Social Avoidance and Distress in New Situations; General Social Avoidance and Distress | Belgian, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish | Yes |
| Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C; Beidel et al., 1995) | 8-17 | 26-items Response scale: 0 (never or hardly ever) – 2 (most of the time or always) |
Assertiveness/General Conversation; Traditional Social Encounters; Public Performance | German, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, | No |
| Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC; March et al., 1997) MASC-2 (March, 2013) |
8-19 | MASC: 39-items MASC-2: 50-items Response scale: 0 (never) – 3 (often) |
MASC: Social Anxiety, Separation Anxiety/Panic, Harm Avoidance, Physical Symptoms MASC-2: Social Anxiety, Separation Anxiety/Phobias, Obsessions and Compulsions, Harm Avoidance, Physical Symptoms, GAD Index |
Chinese, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Persian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese | No |
| Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED; Birmaher et al., 1997, 1999) SCARED-R (Muris et al., 1998) |
8-18 | SCARED: 41-items SCARED-R: 66-items Response scale: 0 (not true or hardly ever true) – 2 (very true or often true) |
SCARED: Social Anxiety; Separation Anxiety; Generalized Anxiety; Panic Disorder/ Significant Somatic Symptoms; Significant School Avoidance SCARED-R: Panic Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, Specific Phobias (animal, situational-environmental, blood-injection-injury phobia), Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder; Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish | Yes |
| Spence Child Anxiety Scale (SCAS; Spence, 1998) | 7-19 | 38-items (child-version has 7 additional filler items) Response scale: 0 (never) – 3 (always) |
Separation Anxiety; Social Phobia; Generalized Anxiety; Obsessive–Compulsive Problems; Panic/Agoraphobia; Physical Injury Fears (Phobias) | At least 33 languages (per scaswebsite.com) | Yes |