Anxiety responses to a divergent production task among high and low divergent performers.
Undergraduate psychology students (4 men, 17 women) completed the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, wrote down as many uses as they could think of for each of a list of 30 items, and completed the anxiety inventory again. Divergent performance was defined as the total number of uses a subject listed. The hypothesis that divergent performance would be correlated with a reduction in state anxiety was confirmed.
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests