A Questionnaire Study of Situations and Response Styles in Anxiety: A Pilot Study

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Abstract
A pilot study is described in which an anxiety questionnaire, combining both the manifestations of anxiety and the situations which might evoke anxiety, was distributed to a group of 60 neurotic patients and a group of 60 non‐patients, both groups being dichotomized by sex. The results indicated that neurotics as a group endorsed significantly more items on both parts of the scale, and also indicated greater severity, than did the normal group. A sex difference was apparent for the neurotic group but not for the normal group. Chi‐square analysis revealed that a number of items on both parts of the scale discriminated normal and neurotic respondents at a high level of confidence (P < 0·01), although the relative importance of the items in terms of rank‐ordering was very similar for all groups. The implications of the present findings are discussed with regard to future work on the scale.

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