Interrelations between State and Trait: Some New Evidence

A 10-scale state instrument (self-adjective descriptors) and the Howarth Personality Questionnaire were administered to 312 subjects. Intercorrelations examined the question of the independence of the state scales from the trait scales. Of the 10 state scales 6 proved relatively independent whereas 4 scales, State anxiety, Co-operativeness, Concentration, and Sadness, were not.