TABLE 1.
Descriptive statistics of anxiety, mental effort, sCorti, sAA, cardiac vagal activity, and shooting accuracy at each measurement point.
M | SD | ||
Anxiety (N = 19) | t1 | 1.92 | 1.55 |
t3 | 4.63 | 2.25 | |
t6 | 6.46 | 1.71 | |
Mental effort (n = 17) | t1 | 1.76 | 1.72 |
t3 | 3.71 | 2.38 | |
t6 | 6.12 | 2.35 | |
sCorti in nmol/l (n = 17) | t1 | 4.59 | 2.84 |
t3 | 5.00 | 2.66 | |
t4 | 6.53 | 4.13 | |
t6 | 5.94 | 3.21 | |
t7 | 5.61 | 3.94 | |
t8 | 4.56 | 2.91 | |
sAA in U/ml (N = 19) | t1 | 154.57 | 88.49 |
t3 | 168.73 | 98.48 | |
t4 | 121.57 | 68.14 | |
t6 | 156.51 | 82.38 | |
t7 | 124.52 | 77.02 | |
t8 | 100.87 | 55.33 | |
Cardiac vagal activity in ms (n = 14) | t1 | 57.41 | 41.98 |
t2 | 34.15 | 39.16 | |
t5 | 28.18 | 24.82 | |
t7 | 57.04 | 63.48 | |
Shooting accuracy (n = 16) | LS scenario | 22.66 | 9.52 |
HS scenario | 24.39 | 12.43 |
HR, heart rate; sCorti, salivary cortisol; sAA, salivary alpha-amylase; LS, low stress; HS, high stress.