Attainment of Low Levels of Muscle Tension: Biofeedback-Assisted/Cue-Controlled Relaxation and Biofeedback Training Compared

• Main Author: Ewing, Jack Winston
• Other Authors: Hughes, Howard, 1937-
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1978
• Subjects: anxiety-reduction treatments; relaxation; biofeedback training; anxiety relief; Biofeedback training.; Relaxation.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504525/

Cue-controlled relaxation appeas to have several advantages over prominent anxiety-reduction treatments. It does not require the formulation of conditioned stimulus hierarchies nor the use of mental imagery as does systematic desensitization nor the application of noxious stimularion (farradic shock) utilized in anxiety relief. However, its efficacy, in quantitative terms, has not been determined. The present study compared the effectiveness in attainment of relaxation of instructional set, biofeedback training, and biofeedback-assisted/cue-controlled relaxation training procedures. Results indicate that cue-controlled relaxation training was more effective in terms of mean level of frontal is EMG and degree of maintenance of low EMG levels than either biofeedback training or instructions.