THE OVERT-COVERT ANXIETY INDEX AND HOSTILITY.

The article presents information on the overt-covert anxiety index and hostility. To evaluate the contribution of this overt-covert anxiety index for hypotheses testing, the relationship between anxiety and hostility was measured by the Cattell scale. The theory is advanced that covert anxiety is related to diminished expression of physical hostile expression. Psychoanalytic theory provides the intervening variable linking anxiety and hostility: the control function of the ego. When ego control fails, anxiety becomes overt and direct expression of physical hostility a likely accompaniment.