SINHA'S COMPREHENSIVE ANXIETY TEST (SCAT)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Some statements are given in the next pages and they are concerned with your
behaviour and temperament. Against each statement two alternate responses are
provided in 'Yes' and 'No' form of cell.
2. You have to read each question and put your views by making a cross (x) on either
cell below the Yes or No response.
3. Please reply to all the statements without hesitation as your response will be kept
confidential. Although there is no time limit, still be quick in your work.
YES NO
1. Do you feel that you are punished without any crime?
2. Do you lose the balance of your mind even under
ordinary pressure of circumstances?
3. Do you generally have an unsteady mind?
4. Do you generally fumble while talking to strangers?
5. Do you sometimes feel that your life is useless?
6. Do you weep very easily?
7. Do you generally have the conflict of sin and
righteousness in your mind?
8. Do you get very excited just by the remembrance of the
bitter experiences of your life?
9. Do you generally feel that you would lose your presence
of mind?
10. Do you feel so scared that your tongue gets dried up?
11. Do you think of yourself to be the sinner without any
reason?
12. Do you constantly have strain in your nervous system?
13. Do you occasionally have fear while going out that you
may miss your train?
14. Do you feel the lack of sleep?
15. Do you always get yourself busy in some work or other
just to forget your problems?
16. Do you want to run away to some distant place having
got tired of your problems?
17. Do you generally commit such errors which are difficult
to correct?
18. Do you think that you have committed a certain error
because of which you are very restless?
19. Are you afraid of going to high places?
20. Do you generally feel physical weakness?
21. Do you generally think that life will remain sad?
22. Do you shed tears at the time of your troubles because of
the little sympathy of others?
23. Do you generally feel that you are helpless?
24. Do you generally get lost in yourself?
25. Do you generally work under the condition of pressure?
26. Do you generally remain in anxiety?
27. Do you generally have mental tensions?
28. Do you generally feel suffocation because of fear?
29. Do you become very sad by the contradiction of your
own statement?
30. Do you feel that your life is dark?
31. Do you have the fear of being unsuccessful even after
thorough preparations?
32. Do you generally feel that you are going to lose
everything?
33. Do you get very much confused under such conditions
in which you have earlier encountered great loss?
34. Do you think that life is full of despair?
35. Do you get very confused when you see somebody
fainting or sense- lessness?
36. Are you generally restless because of some troubles?
37. Do you generally think about past events?
38. Do you become restless by the inaccurate presumptions
of others about you?
39. Do you feel physically tired?
40. Do you feel that even small things become problems for
you?
41. Do you generally have the fear of being caught by
widespread or dangerous disease?
42. Do you generally do such work which makes you regret
very much?
43. Do you become afraid of even the imagination of
failure?
44. Are you very often restless even by useless talks?
45. Do you generally get disturbed by imaginary evils?
46. Do you generally have the complaints of constipation?
47. Do you feel that your fortune does not favour you?
48. Do you generally get involved in such matters which
may make you forget yourself?
49. Are you unpleasant by nature?
50. Do you generally feel difficulty in making decisions?
51. Do you get touched even by a short time waiting?
52. Do you generally have the fear that your life might
suffer because of the conspiracy of others?
53. Do you generally have the fear of something or others?
54. Do you think yourself to be more unfortunate than
others?
55. Do you feel that others generally misunderstand you?
56. Do you generally get so restless that it is difficult for
you to sit in one place?
57. Do you generally feel inferior because of your own
failures?
58. Do you generally have the feeling of loss rather than of
gains?
59. Do you lose the presence of your mind even by ordinary
bad events?
60. Do you have a feeling of excitement in every work?
61. Do you generally get so much trouble in any work that
you have to leave it incompleted?
62. Are there such things, the recollection of which makes
you extremely excited?
63. Do you generally have the feeling of heaviness in your
head?
64. Do you feel that people taunt you?
65. Do you get annoyed even by ordinary opposition?
66. Do you think that death might have been somehow
better?
67. Do you generally forget even the recent talks ?
68. Do you constantly have the fear of your defeat?
69. Do you generally get restless and excited?
70. Do you generally get lost in daydreaming?
71. Do you generally get angry with yourself?
72. Do you generally have the feeling of heart failure?
73. Are you generally afraid of seeing a crowd?
74. Do you have difficulty concentrating at a certain object?
75. Do you have the possibility of committing errors even
after having done it with full care?
76. Do you ever have the feeling that you lack in sex
potency?
77. Do you have conflicting thoughts?
78. Do you get excited very quickly?
79. Do you generally have the anxiety of your own failure?
80. Does ordinary criticism of yourself make you restless?
81. Do you generally have the feeling of urination or latrine
when you have to undertake some important work?
82. Do you sometimes get angry or become pleased with
others generally without any reason?
83. Are you generally in high tension when your work is not
completed?
84. Are you generally sad because of unknown reasons?
85. Do you have anxiety on account of sex matters ?
86. Do you feel restless?
87. Do you have such thoughts in your mind which you do
not like?
88. Do you have more anxiety than others?
89. Do you have difficulty in respiration?
90. Do you get disturbed even by the imaginary sadness?