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Deffenbacher, 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
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Rosen, Gerald M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Highly anxious self-referred snake phobics received either (a) therapist-administered desensitization, (b) self-administered desensitization with weekly therapist phone calls, (c) totally self-administered desensitization, (d) self-administered double-blind placebo control, or (e) no treatment. Pretreatment to posttreatment measures revealed…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
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Chang-Liang, Rosa; Denney, Douglas R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Text-anxious students who were high or low in general anxiety were treated with applied relaxation, systematic desensitization, relaxation only, or no treatment (control). The results indicated that applied relaxation was more effective in reducing anxiety than relaxation only and no treatment on measures of general anxiety and measures of test…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students
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Auerbach, Alan – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1981
Reports on two do-it-yourself treatment programs for dealing with stage fright. One program followed a systematic desensitization paradigm; the other was a handout listing 16 strategies for understanding stage fright. Higher ratings were given to the handout strategy. A list of the 16 strategies is included. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Coping