著者

吉川 政夫 菊地 真也

出版者

東海大学

雑誌

東海大学スポーツ医科学雑誌 (ISSN:09153659)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.47-54, 1996

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between the degree of anxiety and the sway of the center of gravity in the standing posture. Subjects were 58 undergraduates. Both state anxiety and trait anxiety of each subject were assessed by the STAI test. The sway of the center of foot pressure in the standing posture for 20 seconds was measured as postural sway by a stabilometer. Results were as follows : (1) The average magnitude of sway of the high trait anxiety group was significantly larger than that of the low trait anxiety group. On the other hand, such finding was not found in state aniety. Postural sway was related to trait anxiety rather than to state anxiety. (2) Such relation was detected not in the postural sway with eyes open but in that with eyes closed.