Thirty-three test-anxious college students were exposed either to cue-con-trolled relaxation (based on progressive relaxation), to pseudotherapy, or to no treatment. The effects of cue-controlled relaxation failed to exceed those of the placebo treatment or those of no treatment. This was true for both self-report measures of test anxiety and psychophysiological indices of arousal during test taking. These results show, unambiguously, that procedural and measurement boundaries do exist within which cue-controlled relaxation is ineffective as a treatment for test anxiety among college students.
Thirty-six shy males participated in two interpersonalKEY WORDS: shyness assessment;i heterosexual anxiety; therapy-outcome research; multichannel assessment. Borkovec et al. (1974) reported an experiment in which several self-report, behavioral, and psychophysiological measures of "heterosexual anxiety" were taken from shy and nonshy males during and after each of two interpersonal performance tests with attractive female confederates. Several of the experimental shyness measures were found to discriminate successfully between the high and low fear Ss. A subset of these discriminating measures was shown also
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