Analyzing The Association Between The Emotional Stroop...

Words Have Feelings Too Aminah Hilaire Howard University Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze the association between the emotional stroop with trait and state anxiety. Researchers chose a cluster of eight random female students in an experimental psychology course to complete an STAI form and online emotional stroop test. By filling out and participating in the prior stated procedures, researchers would be able to determine if cognitive processes are linked to emotional disorders. The STAI forms determined the state and trait anxiety scores of each individual participant. The emotional stroop test assessed emotions by keeping time with how long it took participants to determine the†¦show more content†¦There is anxiety that is only situational, state anxiety, and anxiety that is general, trait anxiety. Researchers in this study wanted to know if state and trait anxiety could calculate a correlation coefficient with the emotional stroop. They also wanted to identify whether trait or state anxiety would have a stronger associat ion with performance on the emotional stroop. Researchers hypothesized that both state and trait anxiety would be able to be calculated with a strong, positive correlation coefficient and that state anxiety would have a stronger association with performance on the emotional stroop. Previous studies have shown that there is no correlation between a high-ordered construct and the time it takes on an emotion stroop test. In a study conducted by Klug and Matthews (1993), results showed that general emotionality was not important in predicting the extent of interference for color-naming emotional words. Brosschot and Ruiter (1994) found the emotional stroop to be bias in anxiety states. If not bias by the emotional stroop, then bias by the participants with anxiety. A study found that participants in various phobic groups try to suppress their high anxiety when taking the emotional stroop test (Amir et al, 1996). Few prior studies involving anxiety and the emotional stroop have a signif icant interference. Egloff and Hock (2001) found that only for individuals who have high trait anxiety