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Peer reviewedDeffenbacher, Jerry L.; Shelton, John L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
Effects of systematic desensitization and anxiety management training in reducing test anxiety and generalizing to other anxieties were compared. Both desensitization and anxiety management training produced significant reduction of text anxiety, but by follow-up, anxiety management training produced significantly more test-anxiety reduction on…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students
Peer reviewedShelton, John L.; Madrazo-Peterson, Rita – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
Anxious students were randomly assigned to a wait-list control group; to three groups aided by experienced behavior therapists; or to three groups led by paraprofessionals. Results show paraprofessionals can achieve outcome and maintenance effects equivalent to more rigorously trained professionals. Paraprofessionals can conduct desensitization in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students
Download full textMiller, Harold R.; And Others – 1970
From 300 introductory psychology students, 40 female "snake phobics" were selected to test the hypothesis that distraction paired with fearful imagery is effective in alleviating the "phobia." Subjects were divided into three treatment groups and a control group: H+PI (fear hierarchy plus pleasant imagery as distraction), H+P…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, College Students, Conditioning
Hannum, James W.; And Others – 1976
Two elementary teachers were given systematic desensitization and behavior modification training to help them manage their feelings of anxiety and establish classroom control. Changes in teacher and student classroom behavior were recorded through daily observations by trained observers. The observers recorded teacher praise and criticism as well…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedWilson, Barbara J. – Communication Research, 1989
Assesses effectiveness of two desensitization strategies for reducing children's emotional reactions to mass media. Examines children having passive exposure, modeled exposure, or no exposure to lizards before watching a horror movie involving lizards. Finds that modeled exposure decreases emotional reactions and negative interpretations, whereas…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audience Response, Children, Communication Research
PDF pending restorationSime, Wesley E. – 1977
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effects of brief treadmill exercise and meditation with a placebo-control treatment for reduction in several physiological and psychological measures of stress, anxiety, and tension before and after a written final examination in 48 high-test anxiety subjects. The subjects, 24 men and 24 women,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Analysis of Covariance, Anxiety, Conditioning
