A Study of the Relationship Between Anxiety, Manifest Needs, and Creativity in Upward Bound Students

Author

Neal A. Davidson, Utah State University

Date of Award:

5-1967

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Psychology

Committee Chair(s)

Frances Halstrom

Committee

Frances Halstrom

Committee

Glendon Casto

Committee

E. Wayne Wright

Abstract

Previous investigators have indicated that low socio-economic students have difficulty experiencing success on tests heavily loaded with verbal material. Differences in personality characteristics between students of high and low creativity have also been found. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of manifest needs and anxiety on creative thinking.

The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, which determines anxiety level, the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, which measures manifest needs, and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, which provides an index of creativity were administered to Spanish-American, Anglo-American, Negro, and Navaho high school students, who constituted the 1967 Upward Bound population at Utah State University. The total sample, composed of the four ethnic backgrounds, was administered the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. The students were ranked on the basis of their total creativity score, and high and low creativity groups were extracted at the median. The results indicate that Upward Bound students are significantly higher in figural than in verbal creativity. No significant differences between high and low creativity students were found on anxiety or manifest needs, although a negative trend between anxiety and creativity was suggested.

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Recommended Citation

Davidson, Neal A., "A Study of the Relationship Between Anxiety, Manifest Needs, and Creativity in Upward Bound Students" (1967). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 5651.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5651