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Anxiety Scale

1. Death anxiety -- references to death, dying, threat of death, or anxiety about death experienced by or occurring to:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

c. inanimate objects (1).

d. denial of death anxiety (1).

2. Mutilation (castration) anxiety -- references to injury, tissue or physical damage, or anxiety about injury or threat of such experienced by or occurring to:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

c. inanimate objects destroyed (1).

d. denial (1).

3. Separation anxiety -- references to desertion, abandonment, ostracism, loss of support, falling, loss of love or love object, or threat of such experienced by or occurring to:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

c. inanimate objects (1).

d. denial (1).

4. Guilt anxiety -- references to adverse criticism, abuse, condemnation, moral disapproval, guilt, or threat of such experienced by:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

d. denial (1).

5. Shame anxiety -- references to ridicule, inadequacy, shame, embarrassment, humiliation, overexposure of deficiencies or private details, or threat of such experienced by:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

d. denial (1).

6. Diffuse or nonspecific anxiety -- references by word or phrase to anxiety and/or fear without distinguishing type or source of anxiety:

a. self (3).

b. animate others (2).

d. denial (1).


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