時間不安の実験臨床心理学的研究(1)

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Time anxiety seems to be constructed of two different emotional components, sense of time urgency and anticipation of receiving undisired outcome in all probability. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of time pressure and anticipation of receiving white noise on the subjective, behavioral and physiological indices of state anxiety response; STAI, task performance and error, heart rate. Subjects were 80 undergraduates and Time Anxiety Scale was used to measure the degree of time anxiety trait. According to the person-situation interacition model, we predicted that state anxiety of high time anxious group would more increase than of low anxious group during a time pressure condition, but not during an aversive white noise condition.
The results did not confirm our prediction. All subjects showed higer state anxiety in all indices during a time pressure condition than during a white noise condition. The group differences of state anxiety could be observed in phasic change, but not in tonic level.