A PROBE INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL LABILITY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

Cattell's intelligence test CF 2A Guilford's Match problems. and Staudel's Questionnaire of Heuristic Competence (KFST) were given to two groups of 16 year old subjects (34 girls and 24 boys - high-school students). Emotional lability was investigated by Eysenck's Personality Inquiry and Spielberger's State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI 1, STAI 2). We did not find a significant relationship between the problem solving achievement and emotional lability, however. behavior in problem situations is apparently affected by the level of emotional lability.