Abstract
Witkin, et al. (6) hypothesized that field-dependent persons tend to have more poorly developed control and defense systems and to express greater anxiety than field-independent persons. Their research and that of Taylor and Spence (5) suggest that field dependency and manifest anxiety should interact when Ss learn perceptual-motor tasks which differ in difficulty. However, this was not confirmed by Dargel and Kirk (2) who tested 32 female Ss classified as high or low in anxiety on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (4) and as field-dependent or independent by the Hidden Figures Test (3). The present study determined relation of scores on the Hidden Figures Test and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and on the Hidden Figures Test and the Institute for Personality and Ability Testing Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, a measure of clinical anxiety (1) for 160 undergraduate students at a small liberal arts college. Ss took the tests on different days.
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