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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 reviewedNaveh-Benjamin, Moshe – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
To investigate whether there are 2 types of test-anxious students, those with poor study skills and those with difficulties in retrieving material, study skills training or anxiety desensitization were provided to 84 high test-anxious university students in Israel. Results support the theory of two types of test-anxious students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Desensitization
