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Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale Item Responses
Description
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale Item Responses
Usage
items_taylor_manifest_anxiety_scale
Format
An object of class matrix
(inherits from array
) with 4468 rows and 50 columns.
Details
Questions alongside of their correct answer is based off of Table 1 of the Taylor (1953) paper.
Items with their desired response bolded:
-
Q1
: I do not tire quickly. (False) -
Q2
: I am troubled by attacks of nausea. (True) -
Q3
: I believe I am no more nervous than most others. (False) -
Q4
: I have very few headaches. (False) -
Q5
: I work under a great deal of tension. (True) -
Q6
: I cannot keep my mind on one thing. (True) -
Q7
: I worry over money and business. (True) -
Q8
: I frequently notice my hand shakes when I try to do something. (True) -
Q9
: I blush no more often than others. (False) -
Q10
: I have diarrhea once a month or more. (True) -
Q11
: I worry quite a bit over possible misfortunes. (True) -
Q12
: I practically never blush. (False) -
Q13
: I am often afraid that I am going to blush. (True) -
Q14
: I have nightmares every few nights. (True) -
Q15
: My hands and feet are usually warm. (False) -
Q16
: I sweat very easily even on cool days. (True) -
Q17
: Sometimes when embarrassed, I break out in a sweat. (True) -
Q18
: I hardly ever notice my heart pounding and I am seldom short of breath. (False) -
Q19
: I feel hungry almost all the time. (True) -
Q20
: I am very seldom troubled by constipation. (False) -
Q21
: I have a great deal of stomach trouble. (True) -
Q22
: I have had periods in which I lost sleep over worry. (True) -
Q23
: My sleep is fitful and disturbed. (True) -
Q24
: I dream frequently about things that are best kept to myself. (True) -
Q25
: I am easily embarrassed. (True) -
Q26
: I am more sensitive than most other people. (True) -
Q27
: I frequently find myself worrying about something. (True) -
Q28
: I wish I could be as happy as others seem to be. (True) -
Q29
: I am usually calm and not easily upset. (False) -
Q30
: I cry easily. (True) -
Q31
: I feel anxiety about something or someone almost all the time. (True) -
Q32
: I am happy most of the time. (False) -
Q33
: It makes me nervous to have to wait. (True) -
Q34
: I have periods of such great restlessness that I cannot sit long I a chair. (True) -
Q35
: Sometimes I become so excited that I find it hard to get to sleep. (True) -
Q36
: I have sometimes felt that difficulties were piling up so high that I could not overcome them. (True) -
Q37
: I must admit that I have at times been worried beyond reason over something that really did not matter. (True) -
Q38
: I have very few fears compared to my friends. (False) -
Q39
: I have been afraid of things or people that I know could not hurt me. (True) -
Q40
: I certainly feel useless at times. (True) -
Q41
: I find it hard to keep my mind on a task or job. (True) -
Q42
: I am usually self-conscious. (True) -
Q43
: I am inclined to take things hard. (True) -
Q44
: I am a high-strung person. (True) -
Q45
: Life is a trial for me much of the time. (True) -
Q46
: At times I think I am no good at all. (True) -
Q47
: I am certainly lacking in self-confidence. (True) -
Q48
: I sometimes feel that I am about to go to pieces. (True) -
Q49
: I shrink from facing crisis of difficulty. (True) -
Q50
: I am entirely self-confident. (False)
Data pre-processing
We have applied list-wise deletion during pre-processing to remove any observations with missing values from the data set.
Answer coding
The subjects answered a set of assessment items seeking to determine the level of anxiety. Answers given in bold represent the desired response. If a subject matched this response, they were given a 1 inside of the item matrix, otherwise they received a zero.
References
Assessment Design:
Taylor, J. A. (1953). A personality scale of manifest anxiety. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 48(2), 285–290. doi: 10.1037/h0056264.
Data originated from:
OpenPsychometrics. 2012. Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/TMA.zip.
Data used in:
TBA