OXT and Anxiety: Results from separate random intercept and random slopes multilevel analyses showed that on a momentary (within-person) level, presence of affectionate touch was significantly and negatively associated with stress (b = −4.187; t(793) = −2.100; p=0.036), but not with general burden, anxiety, happiness, cortisol, or with oxytocin levels (see Tables 2 and 3, respectively).