Cognitive imagery and physiological feedback relaxation protocols applied to clinically tense young adults: A comparison of state, trait and physiological effects

Examined changes in targeted and general tension behaviors as well as reductions in psychological tension associated with congnitive imagrery and electromyographic biofeedback relaxation procedures. Three groups of 15 female college students participated. During three weekly sessions each per son re...

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Published in:Journal of clinical psychology 1983-09, Vol.39 (5), p.672-681
Main Authors: Schandler, Steven L., Dana, Edward R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Anxiety - psychology
Anxiety - therapy
Arousal
Biofeedback, Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Electromyography
Heart Rate
Humans
Imagination
Medical sciences
Personality
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Relaxation. Biofeedback. Hypnosis. Selfregulation. Meditation
Skin Temperature
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Stress, Psychological - therapy
Treatments
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Summary:Examined changes in targeted and general tension behaviors as well as reductions in psychological tension associated with congnitive imagrery and electromyographic biofeedback relaxation procedures. Three groups of 15 female college students participated. During three weekly sessions each per son received either guided cognitive imagery relaxation, frontalis muscel feedback relaxation, or a self‐rest control procedure. The Anxiety Differential was administered before and after each session, while fronttial EMG, heart rate, and skin temperature were monitiored continuously. A second Tempererament Analysis was administered after the final session. The imagery procedure was associated with moderate reductions in physiological tension and significant reductions in state anxiety and three tension‐related personality dimensions. Self‐rest persons displayed lesser reductions in general tension with little psysiological change. While biofeedback persons showed the largest reductions in psysiological tensions, they displayed only small and variable changes in state anxiety and personality dimensions. The data raise continued questions about the applications of physiologically based operant relaxation procedures and support the use of cognitively mediated protocols for the treatment of specific or gereral anxiety behavirs.
ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
DOI:10.1002/1097-4679(198309)39:5<672::AID-JCLP2270390506>3.0.CO;2-N