Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale.

TMAS / MAS

What it measures

Chronic manifest (trait) anxiety - somatic and cognitive signs of habitual anxiety, originally conceived as an index of drive level in Hull-Spence learning theory

Length and format

50 (drawn from the MMPI item pool); short forms of approx 20 items exist. true/false (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

15+ langs historically (ES, JA, ZH, DE, FR, PL, HI among them; approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

mixed

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Reference

Taylor, J.A. (1953). A personality scale of manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 48(2), 285-290.