There are some kinds of situations that are susceptible of generating anxiety:-assessment situations: where the person feels subjected to test and the outcome can be positive or negative. -Social or interpersonal threat situations: like the previous one but in the social context – situations involving phobic elements: travel by airplane, needles, crowds, etc. – everyday situations: attempting to sleep, study, work, etc., can become stressful situations if we learned to develop these activities with tension or negative thoughts – physical hazards: in which threats to physical well-being, the survival or the integrity of the person – ambiguous or novel situations: unknown to the individual or where it has no experience – situations in which the person perceives their anxiety as a threat: fear of loss of control, some anxiety response, about their conduct, etc. One of the psychological tests used to evaluate anxiety is the inventory of situations and responses of anxiety (ISRA). This psychological test measured anxiety before a series of situations stressful that appear frequently in the lives of many people. The ISRA includes 22 situations, which are grouped into 4 types: situations in which we evaluated, interpersonal or social situations, fobicas situations and situations of everyday life. This inventory was developed by professors Miguel Tobal and Antonio Cano of the Complutense University of Madrid and was published in 1986 to then be translated into more than one dozen of languages. Evaluates the general level of anxiety of any individual from 15 years of age (although there are other versions for children) and three separate response systems: what we feel at the body level (physiological system), what we think (cognitive system) and what we do (behavioral system or engine).

The test has a great discrimination among groups, as it allows to differentiate people with disorders and disorders by scores. Scientific studies comparing evidenced among different samples of the general population. Like all psychological tests, the ISRA, must be applied and interpreted by a professional in psychology specialist in the subject. However, it is possible to make an approximate assessment of the level of anxiety that we have from some of the symptoms that includes this test and serve as a self-assessment..