Objective:To describe the anxious status of college students. Methods: Adopting standardized GHQ-Anxiety Scale as a measure to assess a total sample of 788 college students from first year to third year at three universities in Beijing. Results: About 20% of the respondents’ raw scores are higher than the conceptual mid-point of 2.5, and they are therefore considered to exhibit high anxiety. Among the other 80% of the respondents, about 40% reported low anxiety, and about 38% did not report any anxiety. Conclusions: About 60% of the respondents are considered to exhibit anxious tendency,within which about 20% are considered to exhibit high anxiety.
