Effects of biofeedback information on anxiety control - Dealing with subjects complaining of anxiety symptoms

The present study aimed at elucidating the mechanism of feedback information for anxiety reduction when a subject with anxiety disorders was given a task requiring the reduction of SCL-i.e. an anxiety reduction task - while exposed to SCL feedback information. The study showed that feedback information worked as an anxiety arousing stimulus for a subject complaining of anxiety symptoms;hut when exposed to anxiety reducing stratagies, the arousal of the subject's anxiety weakened. It was also found that feedback informations worked in two ways:1 as an anxiety arousing stimulus by the cognition that this particular information was the information concerning anxiety, and 2 either as an anxiety arousal stimulus or an anxiety reducing stimulus depending on the content of information implied in the feedback.