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Peer reviewedSpiegler, Michael D.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
A comparison was made between the traditional counterconditioning paradigm and a self-control paradigm of systematic desensitization. College students reporting high test anxiety and indicating interest in receiving treatment were assigned to counterconditioning, self-control, or wait-list control conditions. As predicted, self-control procedures…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students
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


