Cognitive modification and systematic desensitization with test anxious high school students

Lois L. Leal; Edward G. Baxter; Jack Martin; Ronald W. Marx

doi:10.1037//0022-0167.28.6.525

Cognitive modification and systematic desensitization with test anxious high school students

Lois L. Leal, Edward G. Baxter, Jack Martin, Ronald W. Marx

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30 10th-grade, test anxious (Achievement Anxiety Test) students were randomly assigned in equal numbers to either a cognitive modification, systematic desensitization, or waiting-list control group. The Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory--State form (STAI-S), and the Anxiety Differential were administered as pre- and posttests. Statistically significant Treatment × Time interactions emerged on the RSPM and the STAI-S, favoring an increase for the systematic desensitization treatment on the RSPM and a decrease for the cognitive modification treatment on the STAI-S. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	525-528
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Counseling Psychology
Volume	28
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-0167.28.6.525
State	Published - Nov 1981
Externally published	Yes

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cognitive modification vs systematic desensitization, test anxiety, 10th graders

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