Atychiphobia Test

Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA)

Background

Atychiphobia is an excessive and persistent fear of failure. Most people experience disappointment after making mistakes, but a person with atychiphobia often experience intense anxiety even before making attempt to complete a task. Fear of failure may cause people to avoid opportunities, delay important decisions, withdraw from challenges, or strive for unrealistic perfection in an effort to prevent mistakes.

Research has shown that fear of failure is associated with anxiety, perfectionism, procrastination, reduced self-confidence, avoidance behavior, and lower psychological well-being. Individuals with severe fear of failure often overestimate the consequences of making mistakes and underestimate their ability to recover from setbacks.

Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA) was developed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of fear of failure by measuring emotional reactions, catastrophic thinking, physical symptoms, avoidance behaviors, functional impairment, and perfectionistic safety behaviors. The assessment also includes a Failure Trigger Inventory that identifies common situations and life circumstances that frequently provoke fear of failure.

Procedure

Read each statement carefully and indicate how often it applies to you based on your typical experiences during the past several months.

Scoring & Interpretation

The Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA) consists of two components.

Part 1: Failure Trigger Inventory (FTI): This section identifies situations and circumstances that commonly trigger fear of failure.

The trigger inventory consists of four categories: Situations Involving Evaluation (8 triggers), Achievement Situations (8 triggers), Social and Interpersonal Situations (8 triggers), Personal Concerns (8 triggers)

Total Trigger Items: 32

Part 2: Emotional and Cognitive Responses

Dimensions: Emotional Reactions (4 items), Fear Cognitions (4 items), Physical Reactions (4 items)

Total Items: 12

Part 3: Behavioral Impact

Dimensions: Avoidance Behavior (4 items), Functional Impact (4 items), Perfectionism & Safety Behaviors (4 items)

Total Items: 12

Items in Parts 2 and 3 use a five-point response scale ranging from 0 (Never) to 4 (Very Often).

The last item within each dimension is reverse scored.

Raw Score Range: 0–240

Percentage Score = (Raw Score ÷ 240) × 100

Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA) Questionnaire

Instructions & Terms

Below is the Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA), a digitally adapted 28- items self-assessment questionnaire.

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Sources

Dar, D. M. Atychiphobia Severity Assessment (ASA). DrDeenz Research Project.

Conroy, D. E. (2001). Progress in the development of a multidimensional measure of fear of failure: The Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI). Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 14(4), 431–452.

Elliot, A. J., & Church, M. A. (1997). A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72(1), 218–232.

Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (2019). Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments. Psychological Assessment, 31(12), 1412–1427.

Version History

Version 1.0 – 06/28/2026 Initial release.

Community Discussion

The following comments were shared by participants after completing this assessment.

Krishti Extremely helpful

I found my problem. But still don't know how to overcome this . I feel hopeless.

2026-05-13

Scoria Extremely helpful

I began to do research on my problems then found out this was a phobia, began to do research on it and then took this test and got 80% 😭

2026-02-22

Dee Extremely helpful

this really helped me get to know myself a little better.

2025-12-16