Examination of the effect of exposure to color on state anxiety levels.

Abstract

This study examined the effect of room color on state anxiety levels. Participants were 120 undergraduate students from a midsize Kansas university. The participants were given the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory -State scale (STAI-S), were given ten minutes of intensive exposure to one of four colors (red, blue, green or yellow), and were then given the STAI-S again. Results indicated no signi'ficant differences between the pre-and post-test scores by color or by gender, which did not support the proposed hypotheses. The results also did not support the findings from previous research.