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Self Hypnosis For School Success: Empowering Adolescents With Anxiety And Stress, Nilani Shankar
Self Hypnosis For School Success: Empowering Adolescents With Anxiety And Stress, Nilani Shankar
Doctoral Dissertations
Self-hypnosis is a treatment that has been utilized to address the social-emotional concerns of adolescents with high levels of anxiety and stress. In this study, a multiple baseline design across three high school-aged participants was implemented to examine whether self-hypnosis could decrease symptoms of anxiety and stress and help to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The results of the study indicated that the treatment resulted in decreases in trait and state anxiety for two out of three participants, improvements in stress levels for two out of three participants, and improvements in HRQoL for all three participants. Participants reported that …
The Influence Of Cognitive Interference And Anxiety On Working Memory And Performance Validity Tests, Caitlin V. Dombrowski
The Influence Of Cognitive Interference And Anxiety On Working Memory And Performance Validity Tests, Caitlin V. Dombrowski
Doctoral Dissertations
Anxiety disorders and situational anxiety are common in the general population, yet the influence of anxiety symptoms on working memory is poorly understood. Some studies suggest that anxiety may be inversely related to working memory, possibly due to reduced cognitive efficiency and/or interference from worry-based cognitions; however, methodological inconsistencies have undermined generalizability. The high prevalence of anxiety makes further study of its associated neuropsychological deficits and underlying mechanism of action tantamount. Moreover, assessment of performance can induce anxiety in even relatively low anxious individuals, which may also interfere with working memory and performance-based measurement. In this study, undergraduates with low …