Everyday Nervousness vs. Clinical Anxiety Comparison Chart¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 5: Mental Health and Crisis Support.
Type: chart
**sim-id:** nervousness-vs-anxiety-chart<br/>
**Library:** Chart.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy Level: Understand (L2)
Bloom Verb: compare, contrast, explain
Learning objective: Students compare and contrast everyday, situational
nervousness with clinical anxiety across duration, intensity, and impact
on functioning, building an accurate non-stigmatizing understanding of
what makes anxiety a medical condition.
Chart type: Horizontal bar chart with two data series
X-axis: Relative level (Low, Moderate, High) — categorical, not a numeric
clinical score
Y-axis: Dimension (Duration, Intensity, Physical Symptoms, Effect on Daily
Functioning)
Data series:
1. Everyday Nervousness (blue bars): Duration = Low, Intensity = Low to
Moderate, Physical Symptoms = Low, Effect on Functioning = Low
2. Clinical Anxiety (gold bars): Duration = High, Intensity = High,
Physical Symptoms = High, Effect on Functioning = High
Interactive features: Hovering a bar reveals a tooltip explaining what
that level means for that dimension in plain language; clicking a bar pins
an expanded infobox with a one-sentence clinical explanation drawn from
the chapter text.
Title: "How Clinical Anxiety Differs From Everyday Nervousness"
Instructional Rationale: Comparing and contrasting two related but
distinct conditions is an Understand-level objective, so a labeled
comparison chart with explanatory tooltips is used rather than a
diagnostic tool, keeping the framing informational and destigmatizing
rather than prescriptive or diagnostic.
Implementation notes: Chart.js horizontal bar chart; categorical axis;
tooltip and click-to-pin text in a JS lookup object.