Abstract
The present study aimed at investigating what significant role the intrinsic meaning of the words used in self-suggestion formula plays in the anxiety inhibition process of autogenic training. As experiments, the quieting effects and the anxiety inhibition effects when the ordinary self-suggestion formula was used, and those when the self-control formula containing words having just the opposite meaning was used, were compared and examined, so as to find out what role is played by the words used in self-suggestion. As the indexes for the quieting effects and the anxiety inhibitio neffects, SCL index and cognitive index were used. As a result of these experiments, no significant difference was recognized between the quieting effects and the anxiety inhibition effects when ordinary suggestion formula was used and those when the suggestion formula having just the oppositie meaning was used. It is suggested, therefore, that the intrinsic meaning of the words of self-suggestion formula does not play a significant role in the anxiety inhibition process of autogenic training.
