RELAXATION TRAINING AS A MEANS OF ENHANCING THE PERCEPTUAL MOTOR PERFORMANCE OF MEDICAL ACUTE CARE PERSONNEL.
Contributors: California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Psychology, Physiological.; Psychology, Industrial.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this research was to study the effects of a stress management program on medical personnel in a hospital setting. The factors studied included manual and verbal performance tasks, perceived stress in typical work situations, and job satisfaction. The subjects, both control and experimental, were tested prior to the stress management program; the experimental group was then given a 4-week stress management training program. The control group was offered a delayed program. All subjects were retested at the end of the initial training program and again 4 weeks later. It was predicted that the subjects would score significantly higher on the finger tapping and digit span tasks, have fewer errors on mirror tracing, and a lower score on the perceived stressor scales on the posttests at the end of the training program. It was also predicted that the experimental subjects would score significantly higher on the finger tapping and digit span tasks and lower on the mirror tracing tasks and perceived stressor scales than the control subjects on the follow-up tests.

In general, the results tended to support the hypotheses. There was no significant difference in the pretests; after the training, there was a significant difference between the control group and the experimental groups on all performance scales and on the perceived stressor scales. The results of the Job Satisfaction Index did not support the hypothesis; there was no significant difference between the groups or between the pre- and posttest scores.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: B, page: 2912.

Thesis (PH.D.)--CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - FRESNO, 1988.

School code: 0444.