Manifest anxiety and reversed alphabet printing.

Abstract

"A group of 96 S''s was given a reversed printing task, presumed to involve considerable intratask interference. Task performance was found to be negatively correlated with Ss'' scores on the Manifest Anxiety Scale. Scores on a number of subscales, corresponding to factors extracted from the total scale in a previous study, were also computed.. .and.. .correlated with performance.... The theoretical implications of these findings were discussed.".