The Relationship Betwekn a Time Score and Anxiety Score on the Taylor Anxiety Scale

Since Taylor(6) derived her anxiety questionnaire as a quantitative method for measuring relative drive level among human subjects, a number of studies (e.g., 4, 5» 7) nave appeared employing her questionnaire as a criterion measure of drive level. These studies have characteristically used the questionnaire in the testing of some hypothesis relative to drive and learning. In addition, there havebeenmany reported studies on the questionnaire per se (e.g., 2, 3> o). They have focused chiefly on the problem of reliability,validity (as measured by correlation ¦with other indices of anxiety), and the relationship of anxiety level to other independent attributes (such. as intelligence). As part of a broader study involving the questionnaire, the writers took the opportunity to investigate a performance factor other than item selection or test score, The variable examined was the time required to complete