Somatic anxiety

These components of anxiety are especially studied in sports psychology,[2] specifically relating to how the anxiety symptoms affect athletic performance.

Associated symptoms typically include "abdominal pain, dyspepsia, chest pain, fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, and headache".

[3] Studies have reported that some medically overlooked cases that could not relate physical pain to any type of organ dysfunction typically could have been somatic anxiety.

[5] The Inverted-U Hypothesis,[6] also known as the Yerkes-Dodson law[6] hypothesizes that as somatic and cognitive anxiety (l) increase, performance increases until a threshold is crossed.

[8] Catastrophe Theory[9] suggests that stress, combined with both somatic and cognitive anxiety, influences performance, that somatic anxiety affects each athlete and each performance differently, limiting the ability to predict an outcome using general rules.