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Stress Inoculation as a Means of Teaching Anxiety Management Skills: An Evaluation of Stimulus Generalization

Kantor, Lyle Eugene
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066611143

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1979, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology.
The present investigation examined the efficacy of the Stress Inoculation treatment regimen in reducing public speaking anxiety and in teaching general anxiety management skills. The results obtained from Stress Inoculation were compared with those resulting from Systematic Desensitization and Speaking Skills Training treatments, and a no treatment classroom control condition. Forty students enrolled in an introductory speech course were pretested and then randomly assigned to one of two therapists and to one of the three treatments. As a function of attrition following pretesting, the sample was reduced to thirty subjects who each received six hours of treatment, and five dropouts who were placed in a no treatment classroom control group. After treatment was completed all subjects attended a posttest evaluation session. The results indicated that subjects within the Stress Inoculation, Systematic Desensitization, and Speaking Skills Training treatments, and the classroom control condition experienced significant reductions in anxiety associated with public speaking. Each of the four conditions also resulted in comparable generalization gains. Evidence of broad generalization was found on all subjective measures administered during exposure to three anxiety-provoking tasks, as well as on each of the adjunctive questionnaire measures. Behavioral measures of generalization, however, did not reveal corresponding pre-post improvements in performance across all of the generalization tasks. These results do not provide evidence to support the hypothesis of differential treatment effectiveness. It was concluded that the results of this investigation do not support the contention that the congitive -behavioral Stress Inoculation procedures effect more extensive generalized gains in adaptive functioning. This research also demonstrates the partial independence of anxiety responses across subjective and behavioral measurement domains, and the importance of including dependent measures representing multiple measurement domains.
Donald F. Kausch (Advisor)
Psychology

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  • Kantor, L. E. (1979). Stress Inoculation as a Means of Teaching Anxiety Management Skills: An Evaluation of Stimulus Generalization [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066611143

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kantor, Lyle. Stress Inoculation as a Means of Teaching Anxiety Management Skills: An Evaluation of Stimulus Generalization. 1979. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066611143.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kantor, Lyle. "Stress Inoculation as a Means of Teaching Anxiety Management Skills: An Evaluation of Stimulus Generalization." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1979. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066611143

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