Authors : Dr. Rinita Jain

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 3 - March

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26mar881

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Abstract : Anxiety in the youth today has reached to an alarming situation where feelings of fear, worry and uneasiness have converted into excessive and persistent restlessness, confusion and loss of clear identity to emerge as an confident individual. This has triggered their physical, emotional, academic and behavioural patterns into identifiable disorders i.e Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Phobias, Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. Loss of interest in studies, unbalanced aggression, suicide are some unwelcome outcomes of these disorders. Indian and Foreign scales are available for identifying symptoms. Yet, while working with adolescents from Indian schools and colleges, there emerged a need to have scale for career, academic, behavioural and personal anxiety can be measured as to formulate a comprehensive anxiety score in order to design interventions accordingly. AAS (Adolescent Anxiety Scale) was conceptualized and designed as an answer for the required need. It is a questionnaire having 25 items which were obtained after going through the various stages of making a standardized scale. On sample size of 150 students, AAS scores were correlated with TMAS (Tailors Manifest Anxiety Scale). AAS and TMAS were found significantly correlated (r=0.690, p < 0.001), suggesting the Adolescent Anxiety Scale has convergent validity with TMAS.

Keywords : Anxiety, Assessment Scales, CEBP (Career, Educational, Behavioural, Personal Concerns) AAS (Adolescent Anxiety Scale), TMAS (Tailors Manifest Anxiety Scale) , High Convergent Validity.

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