Reframing, Self-Control, and Neutral Interventions: The Differential Influence on High and Low Trait-Anxious Individuals

• Main Author: Stewart-Bussey, Duke J. (Duke Jeffery)
• Other Authors: Conoley, Collie
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1983
• Subjects: reframing interventions; anxious individuals; self-control interventions; neutral interventions; Self-report inventories.; Anxiety > Testing.; Psychotherapist and patient.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330866/

This study compared the differential influence of reframing, self-control, and neutral counselor interventions on high and low trait-anxious subjects' self -descriptions as measured by the Adjective Check List. Reframing was predicted to be superior to self-control and neutral interventions in eliciting more favorable self-descriptions. An interaction was also predicted between counselor intervention and trait anxiety such that, in the reframing condition, low trait-anxious subjects would describe themselves more positively than high trait-anxious subjects.