Abstract

This study was designed to examine the effect of self-disclosure and assertive training arranged for decreasing levels of anxiety in anxiety neuroses. Among hospitalized patients in T and K area, thirty-six subjects who went through anxiety neuroses participated in this study. Twelve subjects were each assigned to a self-disclosure training group, an assertive training group, and a control group. Each group participated in a ten-session group training once a week for ten weeks except for the control group. The pretest, posttest, and the follow-up test that were administered to all the subjects after four weeks were used to measure the participants anxiety scale (cognitive anxiety scale, affective anxiety scale, physiological anxiety scale). Repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the treatment effect of each condition. The results of this study were the subjects level of cognitive anxiety, affective anxiety, and physiological anxiety in the self-disclosure training group had decreased more significantly than that of the control group in the posttest and follow-up test. Also, the subjects level of cognitive anxiety, affective anxiety, and physiological anxiety in the assertive training group had decreased more significantly than that of the control group in the posttest and follow-up test.