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Effectiveness of complementary projection in reducing stress
Author(s) -
Burish Thomas G.,
Houston B. Kent,
Bloom Larry J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<200::aid-jclp2270340143>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - stress (linguistics) , psychology , anxiety , arousal , shock (circulatory) , feeling , threatened species , causality (physics) , projection (relational algebra) , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , ecology , algorithm , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , habitat , biology
Threatened S s in five stress groups with electric shock, while S s in a sixth group were not threatened. In one of the stress groups S s were encouraged to project causality for their feelings that resulted from the threat of shock to the E instead of to the shock, while S s in the remaining stress groups were not encouraged to project causality for the threat‐produced affects to the E. Physiological and self‐report measures indicated that S s who projected their anxiety and nervousness to the E were just as distressed by the veridical source of arousal as were S s who did not project. Implications of these results for the hypothesized stress‐reducing effectiveness of complementary projection were discussed.