Abstract
This study was designed to build and test the validity and reliability of the Anxiety Level Inventory (ALI). The ALI questionnaire was developed to assess the level of anxiety of an individual. This inventory is un-dimensional as it is built on the symptoms of anxiety, behavioral and cognitive disorders based on the theory of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD). This Anxiety Level Inventory is easy to administer as it only takes 10 to 15 minutes. This inventory is suitable to run at the age of 15 and above, male and female gender and multicultural. This test is also appropriate to administer in groups or individually. The inventory consisted of 21 items consisting of negative and positive statements to prevent respondents from responding to the inventory arbitrarily. This Anxiety Level Inventory uses the Likert scale of Never, Sometimes and Always. The validity of ALI content was evaluated by 12 experts comprising of government and private staff, as well as guidance and counseling teachers. A total of 82 respondents answered this ALI through a 'Google doc' application consisting of UPSI students as well as guidance and counseling students. Overall validity was moderate to high of 0.617 (61.7%). The reliability value shows a high value of Cronbach alpha with .865. As such, this study produced an ALI questionnaire with good validity and reliability for use in the field of guidance and counseling in Malaysia.
Highlights
Anxiety was defined as a person’s made up interpretation towards an environmental stressor or burden which already had occurred, currently occurring or will be occur. Iso-Ahola and Hatfield (1986), mentioned that anxiety is a combination of physiological and psychological effect due to one’s self interpretation on a situation. Gould and Krane (1992) explained anxiety as an emotional dimension or a revival for cognitive
This inventory is un-dimensional as it is built on the symptoms of anxiety, behavioral and cognitive disorders based on the theory of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Through the ANOVA Test, it was found that there was no significant difference between cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety among the university teams participating in the Sports of the Private University of Malaysia Sports Council
Summary
Anxiety was defined as a person’s made up interpretation towards an environmental stressor or burden which already had occurred, currently occurring or will be occur. Iso-Ahola and Hatfield (1986), mentioned that anxiety is a combination of physiological and psychological effect due to one’s self interpretation on a situation. Gould and Krane (1992) explained anxiety as an emotional dimension or a revival for cognitive. A worrying feeling or anxiety is not an overwhelming experience in a human’s life. This worrying feeling can make a human’s life in anxiety, fear, strain and stressed It can happen at any range of ages, does not matter if the person is a kid, teenager or an adult. Iso-Ahola and Hatfield (1986) explained that anxiety is a combination on the psychological and physiological effect occurred due to one’s interpretation towards a situation. Anxiety Level Inventory was built to assess a person’s potential towards their anxiety level This inventory is unidimensional because it was build based on the anxiety symptoms consist of emotions, behaviour and cognitive. This inventory is to be administered because it only took 10 to 15 minutes to be completed. This Anxiety Level Inventory used a Likert scale such as Never, Sometimes and Always
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