Validation Study of the Manifest Anxiety Scale in Adults for SmartPhone

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how human beings carry out some activities that involve social interaction, such as communicating, working, studying, traveling, among others. Therefore, social interaction transformation methods are commonly performed in person or involved in paper documentation in the digital world. An example of this is the validated scales and instruments used by human behavioral scientists as tools to assess a particular emotional condition during a psychotherapeutic session. In this paper, we present a study to validate the Manifest Adult Anxiety Scale adapted for smartphones against the original paper version in a sample of university students. Two groups of 44 university students participated in this validation study. The Manifest Anxiety Scale for Adults, version C, was administered to them. It consists of 49 items related to 5 five subscales, worry/hypersensitivity, social concerns and stress, anxiety, and specific items related to university students, for example, test anxiety. The results showed that the scale adapted for smartphones has a high concordance with the paper version of AMAS-C. So this could be used to replace it.