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Effects of rational‐emotive therapy on psychophysiological and reported measures of test anxiety arousal
Author(s) -
Barabasz Arreed F.,
Barabasz Marianne
Publication year - 1981
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(198107)37:3<511::aid-jclp2270370311>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , emotive , skin conductance , arousal , clinical psychology , test anxiety , behaviour therapy , test (biology) , placebo , rational emotive behavior therapy , psychotherapist , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , cognition , alternative medicine , philosophy , paleontology , epistemology , pathology , biomedical engineering , biology
Developed audio taped lectures, taped therapy session models, and homework assignments designed to reduce irrational beliefs associated with test anxiety within Ellis' rational‐emotive therapy (RET) approach. The initil sample consisted of 148 university students. Comparisons with an attention placebo counseling program, which was established to be equally credible by a postexperiment inquiry and a no‐treatment group found the RET S s to show significantly lower skin conductance responses to a test anxiety visualization and lower reported anxiety on a questionnaire. However, skin conductance responses to an alternative test anxiety visualization did not show treatment effects.