Sappington A A
J Clin Psychol. 1977 Oct;33(4):1070-5. doi: 10.1002/1097-4679(197710)33:4<1070::aid-jclp2270330434>3.0.co;2-w.
This study investigated the role of physiological arousal in the affect induction phase of Induced Anxiety therapy by using biofeedback to facilitate arousal. Twenty-one college students who were suffering from free-floating anxiety were assigned randomly to one of three groups: (1) a no-treatment control group simply completed the measures before and after therapy; (2) a conventional Induced Anxiety group went through five standard Induced Anxiety sessions; and (3) biofeedback Induced Anxiety group went through a similar procedure except that biofeedback was used in the affect induction phase to facilitate heart rate increase. It was found that the biofeedback procedure did result in a greater heart rate increase during the affect induction phase arousal than did the conventional procedure (.01 level of significance), but did not facilitate subjective emotional arousal. Biofeedback Induced Anxiety resulted in a greater reduction of trait anxiety as measured by the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List than did the no-treatment group or the conventonal Induced Anxiety group. The conventional Induced Anxiety group did not differ significantly from the no-treatment control group.
本研究通过使用生物反馈来促进生理唤醒，探讨了生理唤醒在诱导焦虑疗法的情感诱导阶段所起的作用。21名患有漂浮性焦虑的大学生被随机分配到三个组中的一组：（1）无治疗对照组仅在治疗前后完成测量；（2）传统诱导焦虑组进行了五次标准的诱导焦虑疗程；（3）生物反馈诱导焦虑组经历了类似的过程，只是在情感诱导阶段使用生物反馈来促进心率增加。结果发现，与传统方法相比，生物反馈程序在情感诱导阶段的唤醒过程中确实导致了更大的心率增加（显著性水平为0.01），但并未促进主观情绪唤醒。与无治疗组或传统诱导焦虑组相比，生物反馈诱导焦虑在通过多重情感形容词检查表测量时，导致特质焦虑的降低幅度更大。传统诱导焦虑组与无治疗对照组之间没有显著差异。
