Location 03: Observation Deck
Anxiety speaks in two tongues — one in the mind, one in the body.
Most of us have been answering in the wrong one.
Your Result
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Total Anxiety · range 14–70
Cognitive — the Mind
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out of 35 (min 7)
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Somatic — the Body
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out of 35 (min 7)
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What this measures
Anxiety does not arrive through one door. It splits into two channels, and this questionnaire measures them separately. The cognitive channel is anxiety made of thought — worry, rumination, imagined catastrophes, the loop you cannot switch off. The somatic channel is anxiety made of body — the racing heart, the tight stomach, the jitteriness, the sweating.
Most people are louder in one channel than the other, and that difference matters more than the total score: a technique aimed at the wrong channel does very little. Relaxing a body that was never tense will not stop a racing mind — and reasoning with a mind that is already calm will not release a braced body.
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Your next step
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Items and scoring follow Schwartz, Davidson & Goleman (1978) as reported in DeGood & Tait (1987): odd-numbered items form the Cognitive scale, even-numbered items the Somatic scale, each rated on a 5-point scale anchored "not at all" and "very much so", then summed. This is a self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis.