A comparative analysis of the efficacy of endemic imagery and systematic desensitization on the affective, cognitive, and physiological parameters of test-phobic students.
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Title
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A comparative analysis of the efficacy of endemic imagery and systematic desensitization on the affective, cognitive, and physiological parameters of test-phobic students.
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Identifier
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AAI9224834
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identifier
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9224834
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Creator
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Linden, Eric Robert.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Phillip A. Saigh
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Education, Educational Psychology | Psychology, Clinical | Psychology, Behavioral | Education, Tests and Measurements
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Abstract
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The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effects of two therapeutic procedures in the treatment of test phobic undergraduate students. The sample was composed of thirty-nine second and third semester community college students whose scores were at or above the eightieth percentile in a self-report test anxiety inventory and who were clinically diagnosed as test phobic as indicated by a DSM-III-R structured clinical interview. The subjects were then randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups whose subjects received either individual therapy in systematic desensitization or endemic imagery or were wait-listed. Test anxiety, worry, emotionality, general anxiety and depression were assessed by self-report inventories before and immediately after treatment and at a one-year follow-up following a pretest-posttest control group design. Physiological response (i.e. heart rate) was measured before and during an actual final examination (in vivo) and academic achievement was assessed by grades on the final examination.;The results of MANCOVA analyses for data immediately following the treatments indicated that subjects in both treatment groups were significantly less test anxious and their academic achievement on the exam was significantly higher than control group subjects. The results also indicated that immediately following the treatments, subjects who received endemic imagery demonstrated significantly less worry while subjects who received systematic desensitization showed significantly less emotionality than control subjects. A non-significant trend towards reduced in vivo heart rate in the treatment groups to control group comparison was also evidenced. A MANCOVA performed on the one-year follow-up data revealed no statistical significance between groups on any outcome measure.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
