Date of Award

9-18-2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Department

Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology

First Advisor

William Buhrow, PsyD, Chair

Second Advisor

Carilyn Ellis, PsyD, Member

Third Advisor

Emily Moore, MS, Member

Abstract

Anxiety is the most common rising public health concern for college students (Center for Collegiate Mental Health, 2023; Haikalis et al., 2022). In 2022–2023, 65% of college students seeking counseling noted anxiety as their primary concern, rising 10% in the last 10 years (Center for Collegiate Mental Health, 2023). As a result, higher education institutions are seeking proactive solutions that are efficacious, evidence-based, and proactive for non-clinical university populations to reduce rising rates of anxiety. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore if a population-based intervention could reduce state and trait anxiety immediately and over time. The results of this study were unable to prove that Hammer, Glasses, Pillow intervention was efficacious, at reducing an individual’s state anxiety immediately following the intervention and 90 days after exposure. However, this study did detect a significant decrease in an individual’s trait anxiety immediately after the intervention. Furthermore, results from the control group indicate that there was no increase or decrease in state and trait anxiety for those who were not exposed to any form of intervention.

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