Anxiety is among the most common emotional difficulties impacting well-being, highlighting the need for approachable anxiety-reduction tools. Both mindfulness and art-based interventions have been shown to decrease anxiety symptoms. These studies integrate these approaches via a novel guided drawing intervention, and tests effects on anxiety (pre/post drawing and at one-week follow-up) and physiological regulation (respiratory sinus arrhythmia). This registration includes two separate intervention studies with similar protocols but using different samples - one consisting of adolescents ages 13 to 17.9 years, and the other consisting of adults ages 18 to 25 years. Participants complete a laboratory visit during which they complete questionnaires about their emotions and anxiety, complete pre/post measures of cardiac physiology and state anxiety, and engage in a drawing session. Participants also complete a one-week follow-up self-report of anxiety symptoms. The intervention protocol is briefly described as follows: participants in each sample are randomly assigned to one of three groups (guided drawing, free drawing control, or basic control).
Anxiety is among the most common emotional difficulties impacting well-being, highlighting the need for approachable anxiety-reduction tools. Both mindfulness and art-based interventions have been shown to decrease anxiety symptoms. These studies integrate these approaches via a novel guided drawing intervention, and tests effects on anxiety (pre/post drawing and at one-week follow-up) and physiological regulation (respiratory sinus arrhythmia). This registration includes two separate intervention studies with similar protocols but using different samples - one consisting of adolescents ages 13 to 17.9 years, and the other consisting of adults ages 18 to 25 years. Participants complete a laboratory visit during which they complete questionnaires about their emotions and anxiety, complete pre/post measures of cardiac physiology and state anxiety, and engage in a drawing session. Participants also complete a one-week follow-up self-report of anxiety symptoms. The intervention protocol is briefly described as follows: participants in each sample are randomly assigned to one of three groups (guided drawing, free drawing control, or basic control).
Drawing and Anxiety Study
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Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802
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13 Years to 25 Years
ALL
Yes
Penn State University,
Sarah Myruski, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The Pennsylvania State University
2025-05