Abstracts Accepted

Guided Imagery: An Action Research

Veena Dani*
Sana Alvi**

Abstract:

Though modern medical science has proved to be a blessing its limitations led to the search for alternative pathies and therapies, e.g. naturopathy, homeopathy, yoga, reiki, pranik healing etc. The latest entrant in this field is visualization or guided imagery, which is based on the principle that every person has the power to heal himself by making use of images. In the Indian scenario, its application has been little known. The present investigation purports to employ guided imagery (GI) in management of trait anxiety (TA) of 150 adolescent students.
The design of the study was pre-test post-test design. Two experimental and one control groups (n = 50 each) were matched in terms of socio-economic status and IQ scores. The experimental group I was given GI auditory intervention. The obtained TA score (M = 33.16) significantly different from the control group (Mean =42.16 & t = 10.33). The GI intervention imparted was of two types: auditory (A) and audio-visual (AV). The results revealed: 1. GI intervention, in general, brought down the TA to a significant level; 2. AV GI proved to have significantly greater impact as compared to A; 3. gender as a variable, did not exert any influence.

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