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Comparative Study
. 1986 Mar;11(1):31-46.
doi: 10.1007/BF00999350.

Live and taped relaxation instructions: effects of procedural variables

L K Hamberger, W J Schuldt
Comparative Study

Live and taped relaxation instructions: effects of procedural variables

L K Hamberger et al. Biofeedback Self Regul. 1986 Mar.

Abstract

Two experiments were designed to assess the effects of relaxation training, therapist presence or absence, live versus taped voice, and response-contingent versus noncontingent instructional progress on measures of subjective relaxation and frontal EMG. In the first experiment, it was found that subjects receiving taped instructions showed greater within-session subjective relaxation and lowering of within-session frontal EMG than subjects in a control condition. No differential training effects of therapist presence or absence was noted. In a second experiment, no significant differences in relaxation measures were found between subjects receiving live, response-contingent instructions and subjects receiving live, noncontingent instructions. Moreover, no meaningful differences in relaxation measures were found between subjects receiving live and taped instructions.

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