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Label your fear to get over it
Wednesday September 05, 2012 09:19:00 PM,
IANS
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Washington: Can
describing your feelings when you are particularly stressed make
you less anxious? A new study suggests it may very well be so.
A new psychology study by the University of California-Los Angeles
suggests that labelling your emotions at the moment you are
confronting what you fear can indeed have the effect of reducing
anxiety.
The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to
approach a large, live tarantula in an open container outdoors.
They were told to walk closer and closer to the spider and
eventually touch it, if they could, the journal "Psychological
Science" reports.
The subjects were then divided into groups and sat in front of
another tarantula in a container in an indoor setting. In the
first group, the subjects were asked to describe the emotions they
were experiencing and to label their reactions to the tarantula --
saying, for example, "I'm anxious and frightened by the ugly,
terrifying spider".
"Here, there was no attempt to change their experience,
participants just stated what they were experiencing," said
Michelle Craske, professor of psychology at UCLA and senior study
author, according to a UCLA statement.
In a second group, the subjects used more neutral terms that did
not convey their fear or disgust and were aimed at making the
experience seem less threatening. They might say, for example,
"That little spider can't hurt me; I'm not afraid of it".
In a third group, the subjects said something irrelevant to the
experience, and in a fourth group, the subjects did not say
anything -- they were simply exposed to the spider.
All the participants were re-tested in the outdoor setting one
week later and were again asked to get closer and closer to the
tarantula and potentially touch it with a finger.
The researchers found that the first group did far better than the
other groups.
These people were able to get closer to the tarantula -- much
closer than those in the third group and somewhat closer than
those in the other two groups -- and their hands were sweating
significantly less than the participants in all the other groups.
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