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Student Anxiety Rating Scale – STARS

Authors: Scott Winget and Steven G. Feifer
Publisher: Schoolhouse Educational Services
Ages: 5 – 18 years
Format: Digital rating scale
Forms: Teacher, Parent, and Self-Report (Parent form also available in Spanish)
Number of Items: 62-68 items
Completion Time: 10-12 minutes
Scores: 1 composite; 4 subscales
Publication Date: August 2026
Qualification Level: B

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Description
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental health disorder in youth with prevalence rates estimated between 5-10%. The vast majority of school-aged children struggle primarily with social anxiety. The STARS is a standardized, norm-referenced multipurpose rating scale that can be used to quantify the level of school-based social anxiety a student is experiencing. The STARS is also designed to assess how student anxiety impacts learning and social-emotional behavior in a K-12 school-based environment.

Composite

  • Total Anxiety

Subscales

  • Performance
  • Acceptance
  • Emotional/Physical Distress
  • Cognitive Distress

Features and Benefits

  • Helps school mental health professionals assess how school-based social anxiety impacts learning and social-emotional behavior in a school-based environment.
  • Identifies the role temperament plays in school-based social anxiety.
  • Consistent with how the brain processes anxiety, the STARS differentiates between the physical/emotional (bottom-up) symptoms and the cognitive (top-down) symptoms of school-based social anxiety.
  • Having separate scores in Performance, Acceptance, Cognitive Distress, and Emotional/Physical Distress will assist with accommodation and support planning.
  • Has gender-specific and gender combined norms.
  • Free printed forms available.
  • Includes consistency items to assess validity of responses.
  • Allows collection of multi-informant data.
  • Has strong construct validity support.
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