ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Are Trait Anxiety and Risk Taking Correlated?

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Personality/Emotion Psychology

  • Leslie Fernandez
  • Kiana Crisosto
    California State University, Fresno
  • Paul Price
    California State University, Fresno

Abstract

Given conflicting research on the correlation between trait anxiety and risk taking, we conducted an online study on 162 undergraduate students using two trait anxiety measures and two risk-taking measures. The highest of the four correlations was only .07, suggesting that the correlation between these variables is very weak.

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