The Relationship between Self-Reported Anxiety and Biorhythms.

摘要

This research was conducted to investigate the relationship of anxiety to biorhythms. Two groups of Air Force Institute of Technology students were administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory: the first group received eight surveys over a period of four weeks, the second group received only one survey. State and trait anxiety scores greater than one standard deviation about the group mean were tabulated against 'non-critical' and 'critical' biorhythm periods. Four hypotheses (and variations) were tested for higher than expected levels of anxiety occurring on critical days. A fifth hypothesis was tested for the rhythmicity of individual A-State anxiety scores. It was concluded that levels of anxiety may be influenced by biological fluctuations (rhythms) over time.