Open AccessCreative Thinking and Anxiety among Adolescents
Author(s) -
William Jo Se Billote,
Ryan Ponce,
Trixie Elaine Ponce,
Angelica Ruth Aguada,
Ma. Abegaille Bata,
Michaela Nicole De Leon,
Amie Shane Lizardo,
Kimberly Faith Merina,
Michaela Lj Padios,
Mary Diane Viola
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jpair
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2244-0445
pISSN - 2012-3981
DOI - 10.7719/jpair.v46i1.399
Subject(s) - worry , anxiety , psychology , creativity , clinical psychology , everyday life , developmental psychology , rating scale , social psychology , psychiatry , political science , law
Every person will come to experience what everyone perceives as the most challenging stage in life – adolescence. Most adolescents have different perspectives on life in this stage, and they experience many transitions. These transitions can naturally lead to anxiety. Experiencing anxiety is a normal part of adolescence. Excessive anxiety, however, frequently results in anxiety disorder. Individuals with this disorder often experience intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Using a descriptive-correlational research design, this study aimed to determine the relationship between variables such as age and anxiety to creative thinking among 100 adolescents in a selected school in Batanes. The Creativity Styles Questionnaire (CSQ) was used to assess creative thinking and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) for the respondents' anxiety. Results revealed the following: (1) There were no significant differences in anxiety between male and female adolescents; (2) A weak negative correlation between age and anxiety and; (3) A weak negative correlation between creative thinking and anxiety.