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Adaptation of the Zung self‐rating anxiety scale for people with a mental handicap *
Author(s) -
LINDSAY W. R.,
MICHIE A. M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1988.tb01440.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , rating scale , adaptation (eye) , standardization , scale (ratio) , mental handicap , developmental psychology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , political science , law
. There are few instances of studies which elicit mentally handicapped subjects’ views of their own anxiety. This may be because the assessments available are inappropriate and poorly understood by the client group. The present study sets out to adapt the Zung self‐rating anxiety scale for use with mentally handicapped subjects Items were rephrased to ensure understanding, although a small degree of standardization may have been lost in this process. Similarly, response presentations were altered to ensure a reliable understanding on behalf of subjects. It was found that a simple response concerning presence or absence of the anxiety symptom was most reliable.