| Titel: | Autonomic Responses to Stress: The Effects of Progressive Relaxation, the Relaxation Response, and Expectancy of Relief |
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| Autor: | adley, Brian W. Mccanne, Thomas R. |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Biofeedback & Self Regulation |
| Jahr: | 1981 |
| Band: | 6 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Seiten: | 235-251 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | 48 male undergraduates engaged in either progressive relaxation (PR), a meditative treatment designed to induce the relaxation response (RR), or a no-treatment control experience (C) during 4 sessions on consecutive days. Negative expectations regarding the effectiveness of each technique for reducing physiological responses to stress were induced for half of the Ss in each treatment condition, and positive expectations were induced for the other half. Ss viewed a stressful film following practice of the technique during the 1st and 4th sessions. Heart rate and electrodermal responding were recorded continuously during practice of the techniques and during the stressful film throughout those sessions. Results indicate lowered heart rate levels prior to the film for Ss in the PR/positive expectancy condition and during the film for Ss in the RR/positive expectancy condition. It is suggested that Ss' expectancies concerning meditation may affect cardiovascular responding during stress, although meditative treatments in general do not appear to reduce stress responding as effectively as previously suggested. (28 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |