Abstract
The aim of this study was to elucidate the relationship between availability of coping behavior and adaption of cognitive coping strategies, and examined their effectiveness in mitigating anxiety responses during anticipatory period of electric shock. Forty five subjects were assigned randomly to one of three conditions differed in availability of coping behavior (90%, 50%, 10%). Attention Deployment and frequency of pushing information button were scored as indexes of coping strategies, and two types of anxiety responses (HR and AACL) were measured during anticipatory period which consisted of pre ( p-1) and post response phase ( p-2 ). The results revealed that vigilantlike thoughts, frequency of pushing information button and two types of anxiety responses more increased in P 1 under high availability condition (90%), but in low availability condition (10%), higher anxiety responses and avoidantlike thoughts could be observed in P-2 .
