Abstract
Elementary education preservice teachers participated in a cognitive self-instructional procedure aimed at eliminating or considerably diminishing the negative emotions related to the student teaching field experience (such as feelings of threat, tensions, worry, fear, and anxiety) by altering their self-talk. Sixty-seven subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups: experimental, attention control, or assessment control. The dependent measure used to assess the relative effectiveness of the treatment procedure was the Survey of Feelings about Teaching developed by the authors. The experimental treatment is a modification of Meichenbaum's Stress Inoculation training. Results indicated that the training program significantly decreased self-reported anxiety about teaching.
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