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significance was not attained when data were broken down by sex,
nor was it significant for the secondary major grouping. Significance
at the . 05 level was reached for the elementary major group.
The results of this study lend limited support to the hypothe-
sis that anxiety interferes with critical thinking ability. Several
reasons may be offered for finding such ambiguous results. Since
anxious individuals do not seem chronologically to carry their anxiety
around with them, many Ss may not have minded taking the critical
thinking appraisal as an anxiety-provoking situation even though
these same Ss may have scored high on the anxiety scale. The
anxiety scale was given two weeks before finals. This may have con-
tributed many anxiety scores out of keeping with the Ss normal level
due to the nearness of final examinations. Also, an important
factor for obtaining curvilinear relationships seems to be how
widely scattered the scores are on the two measures used for inves-
tigation. It is very possible that this study's sample was too homo-
geneous to provide relatively trustworthy results.
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Perkins, Fredda M. The Relationship of Anxiety to Critical Thinking, thesis, August 1971; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131443/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .