Worry Self-Assessment
Explores patterns of worry, including how often worries feel excessive, persistent, or difficult to control.
What this assessment explores
Everyone worries sometimes – but for some people, worry becomes a near-constant presence that feels excessive, hard to control, and not tied to any one thing in particular. If that sounds familiar, this assessment helps you understand the nature and intensity of your worry: how pervasive it is, how hard it is to switch off, and how much it's getting in the way. It's built on the PSWQ, a clinically validated measure of worry widely used in both screening and diagnosis.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 16 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how worry generally shows up for you – not just recently, but as a pattern.
The questions touch on things like:
- How excessive or out of proportion your worry tends to feel
- How generalised it is – whether it attaches to lots of different things rather than one specific concern
- How difficult it is to stop worrying once it starts
Your responses give you a clear picture of how much worry is present for you – and whether it might be playing a significant role in your anxiety more broadly.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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