The Power of Your Own Mind Talking yourself out of pain: The importance of believing that you can Michel Girodo, Douglas Wood Abstract The role of believing in the efficacy of a self-control response in coping with pain was investigated in 70 subjects who underwent a pretest-posttest cold pressor test. Forty self-statement trained subjects received either (1)the Stress Inoculation Training rationale while hypnotized, (2)the rationale while “awake,” (3)a hypnotic induction only, or (4)simple instructions to repeat the self-statements before posttesting. Three other groups were used to control for self-statements training, hypnosis, and task-motivational instructions. The results showed that subjects provided with the rationale coped better than subjects who were simply instructed to repeat self-statements as a task demand of the experiment. The hypnosis manipulation results were consistent with the hypothesis that expectations and beliefs about a self-control response may be at the heart of what makes Stress Inoculation Training effective. The relation between believing in the efficacy of a self-control response and believing in the semantic meaning of the self-statements was discussed.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:55:02 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015