State Judgment Anxiety

What it measures

The scale measures how worried and nervous a person felt on a particular occasion involving judgments. Tsai, Zhao, and Soman (2022) used it in two studies; the wording closely echoes an earlier scale used by one of the authors in Thomas and Tsai (2012).

Response format

7-point bipolar scale (e.g., not anxious at all / very anxious)

Scale items

• How anxious did you feel when you were making the judgments? not anxious at all / very anxious
• How nervous did you feel when you were making the judgments? not nervous at all / very nervous
• How worried did you feel when you were making the judgments? not worried at all / very worried

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Reliability was described only as being above .85 in both Study 1 and Study 4, without study-specific values reported (Tsai, Zhao, and Soman 2022, p. 374). Validity was not separately discussed. Note that item wording is fairly generic and may generalize to other judgment contexts, though re-validation is advisable if adapted.

Citation

Tsai, Clair I., Min Zhao, and Dilip Soman (2022), "Salient Knowledge that Others are also Evaluating Reduces Judgment Extremity," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 50 (2), 366–387.

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