Hi, to my knowledge there is no "equivalent" measure. However, there are a few screening instruments for anxiety that are commonly used with college students. These are:

1) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), a commonly used measure of trait and state anxiety (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983). It can be used in clinical settings to diagnose anxiety and to distinguish it from depressive syndromes.

2) Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck & Steer, 1993), a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory that is used for measuring the severity of an individual's anxiety (reliability reported in the test manual includes coefficient alphas greater than .90 for samples of individuals diagnosed with panic disorder, social phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder)

3) Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale–Revised (Hamilton, 1959), a 14-item clinician-administered rating tool in the public domain used to measure the severity of anxiety symptoms among individuals previously diagnosed with anxiety disorders.

Other commonly used tools are a) the anxiety subscale of the SCL-90; b) Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety (the PHQ–4), and, c) the tension-anxiety subscale of Profile of Mood States (POMS).

The Revised Children's Anxiety & Depression Scale (RCADS) could be considered. Though the measure only has gender and grade norms for students up to 12th grade, the measure is keyed to DSM-IV symptoms for most of the anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder. Thus, raw scores could be useful. The RCADS is available free from Dr. Bruce Chorpita's lab webpage: http://bit.ly/ZJDM1J

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Dear Sinaed

There is a spectrum of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. For example separation anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and…

Questionnaires are useful to screen some anxiety symptoms. However, anxiety disorders should be diagnosed using interview, not questionnaire. There are some structured interviews. Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime is a semi-structured interview. This interview is consisted of two parts. The first part screen many psychiatric disorders including anxiety disorders. Moreover, you cannot differentiate different psychiatric disorders through using questionnaire. You can differentiate them by using this interview.

Please visit the following address to be more familiar with it.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16539703

Hi Sinead:

Although the most commonly used scales have been cited, you may want to examine the IPAT-anxiety scale. I have never used myself in research. IPAT-anxiety scale was developed on the construct validity obtained from factor analyses. It has been also empirically validated, and the scale inter-correlates highly with many of the anxiety assessment scales currently in use. Norms for the total scores are based on 482 men and 313 women, of whom a large number were college students. Normal/average scores on this scale are between 4 and 7 with higher scores indicating higher levels of anxiety. IPAT-anxiety scale is a paper/pencil, self-report measure of free anxiety level. It is appropriate for use in studies involving participants age 14 and over, supplementing clinical diagnosis and facilitating all kinds of research or mass screening operations where very little diagnostic or assessment time can be spent with each subject. I hope you find it interesting and useful in your research setting.

You can use the SCARED-A, that is made for adults.

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I suggest the use to State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

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We are using the SCARED adult version (SCARED-A), which is based on the items of the SCARED-71. One minor detail - the questionnaire we are using is in Dutch... (so if you want to use it, we will need to consider how to cope with translation issues). In the article of Bögels, S. M., & Melick, van, M. (2004). The relationship between child-report, parent self-report, and partner report of perceived parental rearing behaviors and anxiety in children and parents. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 1583-1596, it is described that the items of the SCARED-71 were re-formulated to an adult perspective and we have been using it in subsequent studies.