Background: Vestibular system has several connections with other systems of the organism, as it happens with the limbic system, which is in charge of emotion regulation.Therefore, anxiety is a common complaint by people with vestibular disorders.The autonomic nervous system activity is considered as a major component of anxiety response, usually characterized by sympathetic activation and parasympathetic inhibition.We aimed to determine the correlation of anxiety selfperception scales with autonomic response in people with vestibular disorders at rest state and during virtual reality stimulation.Methods: This study included 26 people with vestibular disorders and a control group were matched by genre and age.Two 360° virtual reality videos were used as a stimulus for autonomic function (heart rate variability and galvanic skin response) recording and anxiety subjective interpretation.Results: People with vestibular disorders presented sympathetic activation significantly higher both at rest and in exposure to virtual reality compared to control group.The Spearman Coefficient made evident in the study group a negative correlation between the indicators of the sympathetic activity and the scales of self-perception, as well as a positive correlation between the variables of parasympathetic activity and the inventory of anxiety.In the control group significant correlations were not found. Conclusion:The opposite correlation between the analyzed variables suggests that autonomic response was not consistent with subjective interpretation of anxiety in people with vestibular disorders, although the greater markers of physiological anxiety determined through sympathetic activity were evident.