Self-check

Financial anxiety quiz: a short self-check

Twelve statements about money, about 2 minutes. Your answers give four scores: worry, avoiding, checking, and money worry felt in the body. They can come apart. Some people worry about money and never look at their accounts; others look all the time.

Our own statements, written for this guide and untested. This check is not the Financial Anxiety Scale. There are two of that name: one by Gilla Shapiro and Brendan Burchell (2012), one by Kristy Archuleta, Anita Dale and Scott Spann (2013), and the financial anxiety page compares them. Three statements per part is few, so read a score as rough. A score describes how you answered today. It can't say whether the worry fits the numbers, and it is no diagnosis.

Worry: Worry or dread about money that is hard to switch off.
Avoiding: Putting off bills, statements and balances.
Checking: Looking at balances and accounts again and again, for reassurance that doesn't last.
In the body: Money worry that shows in sleep, tension or a racing heart.

Financial anxiety

Put this self-check on your website

Paste the code below into an HTML or custom code block on your own page or post. The self-check runs inside your page, with a link to this page under it. What a visitor answers stays in their browser, and nothing is sent to us.

In WordPress, add a Custom HTML block. In Squarespace, add a Code block. Most site builders have a block called HTML, Embed or Code.

The code to paste

<iframe src="https://consciousliv.com/psychology/check/financial-anxiety/embed" title="Financial anxiety quiz: a short self-check" width="100%" height="700" style="border:0;max-width:640px" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://consciousliv.com/psychology/check/financial-anxiety">Financial anxiety quiz: a short self-check</a> (Self-check from Conscious Living's Psychology Library)</p>

Keep the link under the self-check. It credits where the self-check comes from and takes your readers to the full page.

Optional: let the self-check grow to fit

The self-check has a fixed height and scrolls inside its box. If your site allows scripts, add this once to the same page and the box will fit what is in it. Many site builders remove scripts, and the self-check works without it.

The resize script

<script>
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  var h = Number(e.data.height);
  if (!(h > 0)) return;
  var frames = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
  for (var i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
    if (frames[i].contentWindow === e.source) frames[i].style.height = Math.min(Math.ceil(h), 4000) + "px";
  }
});
</script>