Thematic Apperception Test: Indices of Anxiety in Relation to Test Anxiety1
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Abstract
THE conceptual importance of anxiety has long been recognized by personality theorists; however, it is only recently that the measurement of anxiety has received an appropriate degree of attention. Several questionnaires or scales for the objective measurement of anxiety (9, 12, 13, 15) and projective test indices of anxiety (2, 3, 7) have been subjected to detailed empirical study. The present study is concerned with the comparison of two measures of anxiety, one derived from a self-rating scale, the other from the analysis of Thematic Apperception Test stories. Several previous investigators have studied the relationship between scores on self-rating scales of anxiety and Rorschach variables ( I , 3, 4, 5, 14). Only Goodstein b), however, related anxiety scores to the TAT, and he employed a multiple-choice modification of the test. His study revealed no significant relationships between the TAT measures and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. In the present study we investigated the relationship between 11 TAT signs of anxiety previously studied by Lindzey and Newburg (7) and Ss’ scores on a Test Anxiety scale developed by Mandler and Sarason (9).