Mei, Chan Sue
(2013)
Efficacy of abbreviated progressive muscle
relaxation and active relaxation training on
improvement of attentiveness mediated by transient
feelings and psychobiological indices of anxiety.
Other.
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
The present study was undertaken with an objective to determine differential efficacy of
psychotherapeutic interventions, namely abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation
(APMR) exercise training and active relaxation in enhancing attentive capacity in young
active female participants. Twenty seven female students of Universiti Sains Malaysia
in the age ranging from 18 to 24 years volunteered as participants, who were assessed
with dispositional and transient anxiety by employing Spielberger’s State and Trait
Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Thereafter, they were randomly categorized into three
groups; viz. - Group A- control group; Group B - participants received training of
APMR and Group C - participants received training of Active relaxation. All of the
participants were subjected to evaluation of transient anxiety; both simple and complex
reaction ability; psychobiological measures of tonic and phasic skin conductance activity as measure of pre-intervention analyses. Thereafter the participants of intervention conditions were introduced to their respective intervention training
programs following standardized protocol (15 minutes/day; 2 days/week for 6 weeks).
Mid-term analyses (all of the parameters of pre-intervention analyses were repeated)
were done three weeks after the introduction of intervention sessions. Thereafter the
similar protocol of intervention was followed for three more weeks. Thereafter all of the
participants were assessed once again for the post-intervention analyses (following
similar analyses protocols). Findings of the analyses suggested that both APMR and
active relaxation intervention had beneficial impacts on attentive performance,
characterized by psychomotor simple muscular reaction time and on cognitively
dominated complex reaction performance. Furthermore, both of the interventions have
been observed to result in alteration in the psychobiological make-up of the participants,
which finally resulted in improvements in attentive performances.
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