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1Faculty of Psychology, Warsaw University, Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. ika@psych.uw.edu.pl
Abstract:
The relationships among conspiracy thinking and state and trait anxiety were examined with 118 high school students who were assessed using the Conspiracy Beliefs Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Among boys there was a positive correlation between scores on A-Trait and the conspiracy thinking (r = .39) whereas among girls there was a negative correlation between these scores (r = -.32).
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