EXPERIMENTAL ANXIETY REDUCTION - SYSTEMATIC-DESENSITIZATION VERSUS A FALSE-FEEDBACK EXPECTANCY MANIPULATION

被引:2
作者
DONOVAN, TR [1 ]
GERSHMAN, L [1 ]
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[1] VILLANOVA UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,VILLANOVA,PA 19085
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10.1016/0005-7916(79)90056-9
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
College students were shown anxiety provoking slides before and after systematic desensitization or placebo treatment (high-expectation-for-improvement) or no treatment. Both self-report and physiological dependent measures were taken. The self-report measure showed the desensitization and placebo treatments to have produced significant and similar decreases in anxiety. The physiological measures showed that where group differences were found, desensitization was superior to placebo treatment and no treatment. The discussion highlights one of the major problems in interpreting the expectancy literature; namely, the inadequacy of relative dependent measures for assessing the impact of expectancy manipulations. © 1979.
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