Objective To probe into the influence of anxiety on scientific inventive and creative problem solving of university students so as to provide a basis for exploring the relationships between anxiety and creative thinking.Method 200students from southwest university were randomly selected and screened using williams′creativity assessment packet questionnaire.36eligible university students were selected as investigation subject and were divided into group with high creativity tendency and group with low creativity tendency based on their scores.Their creativity was evaluated using material database of scientific invention and creative experiment after undergoing experimental procedure

and their anxiety state was evaluated and analyzed using the state-trait anxiety Inventory（STAI）.Results Overall scores of scientific invention and creativity tendency test were significantly correlated with the following four factors:adventure

curiosity

imagination and challenge

with respective r of 0.467

0.456

0.385

0.377

and 0.501（p<0.01）.In creative problem solving

group with high trait anxiety has a significant effect（F=4.772

p<0.05）.Scores on creativity in group with low trait anxiety were significantly higher than the group with high trait anxiety.Interaction effect between creativity tendency and state anxiety was insignificant（F=0.508

p>0.05）.Conclusion Anxiety has a significant correlation with scientific inventive and creative problem solving of university students.Trait anxiety has a significant influence on creativity while that of state anxiety is not clear.