Reference no: EM133587002

Question: Create an operational definition of anxiety using at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as references (you can use the DSM as a scholarly source to define anxiety, but please do not use websites).

• Justify whether this is an interview or self-report instrument and the method of scaling you used to create the test items.
• Describe the methods you used for item selection and how item selection was evaluated.
• Describe how you would norm this instrument. For your description, you should:
• Discuss how many people you would give it to.
• Describe the characteristics that your respondents would have (gender, age, SES, etc.).
• Explain to whom the instrument would be generalized.
• Describe how you would establish reliability.
• Describe how you would establish validity.