Moreno-Proaño, GildaUbillus-Castañeda, Santiago2022-12-282022-12-282022https://journals.eagora.org/revHUMAN/article/view/4107https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14809/4158This article aims to analyze anxiety in adults from Quito, Ecuador; The sample consisted of 135 men and women between the ages of 18 and 73 who had not presented a previous diagnosis of anxiety. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was applied and it was identified that 14% of the participants present severe anxiety, 17% moderate, 36% minimal and 33% mild, with young people presenting the highest level of severe anxiety compared to adults. In relation to physical and emotional symptomatology, concern, fear and sleep difficulties are considered.engclosedAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/article