INFLUENCE OF A HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGY ON SELF-CONCEPT OF PATIENTS WITH AGORAPHOBIA.
Contributors: Texas Woman's University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Mental Health.
Description: A preexperimental, one-group, pretest-posttest design was used to investigate the relationship between level of satisfaction with self-concept of agoraphobics before and after participation in a Territorial Apprehensiveness (TERRAP) structured behavior modification program. The 95 agoraphobic clients were 68 females and 27 males with a mean age of 38.5 years; 68 were married. Level of satisfaction with self-concept was assessed by Secord and Jourard's Body Cathexis-Self Cathexis (BC-SC) Scale. Subjects exhibited a significant improvement in self-concept after participating in a TERRAP program (t = $-$10.18, df = 94, $p\leq.001).$ A significant difference was found between marital status and posttreatment BC-SC scores (F = 3.53, $p\leq.033).$ Clients currently married and clients never before married had higher self-concept scores than previously married subjects who were divorced, separated, or widowed. No differences in self-concept were found due to age, gender, use of additional therapy techniques or use of medication.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-06, Section: B, page: 2783.

Thesis (PH.D.)--TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0925.