Exploring the effects of tape-recording on personality assessment

This study examined the possible influence of audio and Video recording of personality assessment measures on anxiety. Undergraduate students in psych ology were randomly assigned to Audiotape, Videotape, or Control conditions and given the Stale-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Rorschach Inkblot Method. A one-way multivariate analysis of variance indicated no significant differ ences among these conditions on the Spielberger, et al. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, A-State scale, and five Rorschach measures of situational anxie ty. Tape-recording itself did not seem to affect the anxiety indices of the se frequently used personality assessments.