welcome to the Anxiety Reaction Type @ Work Quiz ©

Welcome to the Anxiety Reaction Types @ Work Quiz

Dr. Dana Dorfman, MSW, PhD, author of When Worry Works, has over 25 years of clinical experience treating children, adolescents, parents, and adults. She created the Anxiety Reaction Types (ART) © at Work framework to identify the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest in our lives, especially at work.

What to know before you take the ART @ Work quiz:

  • The quiz is free and your answers are confidential.

  • It should take about 20 minutes to complete.

  • As you explore your results, you may identify with aspects of the 8 ARTs. Remember that each reaction type is not written in stone.

  • No ART is better or worse than the other. They’re built to offer a different perspective on yourself (and your coworkers) and to improve your relationship with your work.

  • Consider them as frameworks for understanding rather than rigid molds that can help you make small changes with a large impact on your trajectory and mental health.

Instructions:

Read the 16 questions and choose the answer that seems most generally true for you. If none of the situations are relevant or applicable, then choose the answer you’d most likely do or say.

The results will reveal your predominant Anxiety Reaction Types @ Work and what you can do next. (Most of us are a blend.)

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