Effects of alternative control procedures for electromyographic biofeedback relaxation training
Tóm tắt
Twenty-four college students participated in a single session of electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback in a comparison of three experimental control procedures commonly employed in biofeedback relaxation training research. One group received contingent EMG biofeedback from the forehead area, and each subject in this group served as his or her own control. Subjects in a second group received noncontingent EMG feedback from a tape recorder but were instructed to use the feedback signal to relax their forehead muscles (single blind). Subjects in a third group received the same auditory feedback as those in the second group but were not told the purpose or source of the feedback stimulus (yoked control). The contingent feedback group showed significantly less EMG activity when compared to the other two groups. However, this group did not exhibit significant EMG level decrements from the beginning to end of the session. This seemingly contradictory finding may have been due to statistically capitalizing on the artifactually high EMG level of the experimental and control groups, although the single-blind and yoked-control groups showed nonsignificant increases across the session. The single-blind group's data had a variance several times larger than the other two groups' variance. Findings are discussed with respect to a “probing” hypothesis as opposed to the previously offered frustration hypothesis. Of the three control procedures, the data suggest the yoked control as the procedure of choice for EMG biofeedback relaxation research.
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