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Peer reviewedMelnick, Joseph; Russell, Ronald W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
This study compared the effectiveness of systematic desensitization and the directed experience hypnotic technique in reducing self-reported test anxiety and increasing the academic performance of test-anxious undergraduates (N=36). The results are discussed as evidence for systematic desensitization as the more effective treatment in reducing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students
Download full textSimmons, Roy D., Jr. – 1976
In order to determine whether or not systematic desensitization or hypnosis have any effect in alleviating the test anxiety of community college students, 30 Massasoit Community College student volunteers were matched for GPA and assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1) a systematic desensitization group, in which subjects listened to tape…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Community Colleges, Desensitization
