Feedforward and Anxiety Dynamics in Complex Performance Situations

The study in hand was undertaken to analyse the performance of three groups (viz. low, moderate and high anxiety) of female adolescents (mean age= 17.1 yrs.), on a simulated driving task through a repeated measures 3x3x3 anova analysis. The aim was to gain insight into the performance dynamics of these groups of subjects when task complexity is varied and when they have received a feedforward regarding the pressure of the oncoming task. Results showed that feedforward exerts the its intended effect on the performance level of a task even when the feedforward is given randomly across task complexity conditions. A significant interaction effect of feedforward and anxiety was another important finding of the study.