WORD-ASSOCIATION EMOTIONAL-INDICATORS - ASSOCIATIONS WITH ANXIETY, PSYCHOTICISM, NEUROTICISM, EXTROVERSION, AND CREATIVITY

Word-association emotional indicators (e.g., long reaction time, respo nse repetition) were studied in relation to anxiety, psychoticism, neu roticism, extraversion, and creativity. Two hundred fifty male univers ity students in India completed 5 measures. A principal components ana lysis with varimax rotation indicated that (a) rare but not bizarre an d atypical word associations were related to creativity; (b) rare word associations that were bizarre, isolated, and atypical were positivel y related to psychoticism and to psychopathic deviation; (c) long reac tion time and repetition of the stimulus word before responding were r elated to suspiciousness, and (d) the P scale of the Eysenck Personali ty Questionnaire (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) tapped some features of soc ial anhedonia, social deviance, and mild antisocial behavior.