Efeitos de ansiedade e reinvestimento sobre o controle atencional e o desempenho motor dos motoristas ativos

• Autor(a) principal: Gotardi, Gisele Chiozi [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/203123; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2019-03-19/000912834.pdf
• topic: Ansiedade; Olhos - Movimentos; Motoristas; Eye - Movements

The present study investigated whether negative effects caused by high anxiety levels on attentional processes and motor performance in driving can be modulated by the propensity of the drivers' reinvestment. Forty drivers, divided into two experimental groups according to the level of reinvestment (high-reinvestors and low-reinvestors) drove in a driving simulator under low- and high-anxiety conditions. State anxiety was induced by competition between the participants, presence of an evaluator, an external camera, and sound simulating traffic noise. Drivers reported higher level of anxiety state and had higher mean heart rate during the experimental situation. In the condition of high anxiety, only the drivers high-reinvesters showed poorer vehicle speed control and they were involved in more collisions than the low-reinvesters. During the high anxiety condition, both groups reduced the number of fixations towards the lane ahead and to the rear-view mirrors; whereas, only drivers low-reinvesters performed more fixations towards the speedometer. Although state anxiety has modified the attentional control and motor performance of drivers, the group most likely to reinvest was more affected.