The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between elementary school students\'
anxiety and response to star-wave Test(SWT), and thus evaluate the star-wave Test(SWT) effectiveness as a
tool to measure the degree of anxiety. Subjects were 258 5th and 6th grade students currently attending
three elementary schools in Daegu, South Korea. Data were collected from February 4th, 2010 till February
11th, 2010. Measurement tools included personal environmental-cause questionnaire, SAIC, and SWT. The
data were computed for the frequency, percentages, Cross-analysis on SPSS WIN(version 12.0). The results
of this research are the following: First, evaluating the characteristic responses revealed that most subjects\'
drawing style was pictoral style (38.4%), most subjects\' overall spacial organization was incongruous (65.5%),
most subjects\' vertical organization showed emphasis on space between the sky and the sea(31.0%), and
most subjects\' horizontal organization displayed combined emphasis (43.8%). As for most subjects\' depictions
of waves, most subjects\' dynamic wave depictions were full of movement (95.3%), most subjects\' nondynamic
wave depictions were unstable (56.4%), and other aspects of wave depictions were continuous
(62.6%). Also, most subjects\' star depictions were fixed for dynamic depictions (92.1%), stable for nondynamic
depictions (54.2%), and continuous for other star drawings (72.5%). The number of stars that most
subjects drew were less than 10 (65.9%), and stars were drawn in all areas (76.3%). In addition, in most
cases subjects didn\'t draw beaches, coastlines, rocks, islands, cliffs, lighthouses, thunderstorms, thunder or
lightening, whereas most drew the moon and ships, and the overall drawing method was mostly
continuous (50.0%). Second, comparison of characteristic responses to star-wave pictures between the anxious
group and the non-anxious group revealed significant differences in six areas including style, overall
organizational structure, vertical structure, beaches and coastlines, thunder and lightening, and overall
drawing method.