Table 2: Anxiety related physiological changes.

State-trait

anxiety

inventory

Gender

men

(women)

Av.

events

Av.

maximum

voluntary

contraction

% Heart

rate

change

% SI

change

Decrease

3 (2)

15 ± 7

58 ± 20

16 ± 7

6 ± 36

Increase

2 (6)

24 ± 17

77 ± 36

30 ± 23

251 ± 582

Data expressed as mean ± standard deviation.

SI = stress index.