Rickard H C, Collier J B, McCoy A D, Crist D A, Weinberger M B
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487-0348.
Psychol Rep. 1993 Jun;72(3 Pt 2):1267-74. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.72.3c.1267.
In Exp. 1 the effects of progressive and imaginal relaxation training were examined for 51 psychiatric inpatients. Relaxation Inventory scores indicated significant changes in the direction of greater relaxation for each training procedure; there were no significant differences in responses to the two types of training. Significant relaxation effects were found for each of three training sessions, but the effects were not cumulative. Only one patient was withdrawn because reaction to training was overtly negative. Exp. 2 was an analysis of Exp. 1 data in combination with data from a prior study. Patients and college students responded much alike but students reached greater relaxation within sessions. Further experimentation on relaxation training with psychiatric inpatients appears justified.
在实验1中，对51名精神科住院患者进行了渐进性和想象性放松训练的效果研究。放松量表得分表明，每种训练方法都使放松程度有显著提高；两种训练方式的反应没有显著差异。在三次训练中的每次训练都发现了显著的放松效果，但这些效果并非累积性的。只有一名患者因对训练的明显负面反应而退出。实验2是对实验1的数据与先前一项研究的数据进行的综合分析。患者和大学生的反应非常相似，但学生在各次训练中达到了更高的放松程度。对精神科住院患者进行放松训练的进一步实验似乎是合理的。
