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Teaching Speech Delivery Skills to Reduce Speech Anxiety
The problem. Speech anxiety is a common problem among college students. This can hurt the student academically, and could also continue to affect him or her in professional situations once out of school. Therefore, an economical program designed to teach speech skills and reduce their anxiety would …
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Reduction of fear arousal in young adults with speech anxiety through elicitation of positive emotions
… theory of positive emotions in a speech anxious sample of undergraduate students. Experimental elicitation of positive emotions has previously been shown to speed cardiovascular recovery, increase attention, and broaden thought-action repertoires compared to elicitation of negative …
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The Rationale, Nature, and Evaluation of a Group-Centered Approach to The Treatment of Speech Anxiety
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A Study to Test Visualization as an Effective Classroom Method For Reducing Communication Apprehension of High School Students
The causes of "stagefright," or "speech anxiety," or, to use a more recent term, "communication apprehension" have been the subject of numerous previous studies. Many treatment methods have been and continue to be developed. This study examined the effectiveness of visualization as a method for …
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Do College Students with Public Speaking Anxiety Show an Attentional Bias Toward Threat?
… from neutral cues plays an etiological role in anxiety. The present study examines whether a preconscious attentional bias (AB) toward threatening stimuli exists in individuals with public speaking anxiety. Participants included 61 undergraduates with high and low speech anxiety. AB was measured …
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A Description of the Approaches to Communication Apprehension
The relationship between speech and personality has been an area of study for many years and is understood to reflect both self-identity and communication proficiency. This thesis project surveys the major methods utilized in the treatment of communication apprehension, commonly described as stage …
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Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness
… Gable, & Strachman, 2008). Given the fact that anxiety is stressful, the purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between perceived responsiveness of an audience and CA. Using data from an earlier pilot study measuring for correlation between CA and perceived responsiveness in one‟s …
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Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness
… Gable, & Strachman, 2008). Given the fact that anxiety is stressful, the purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between perceived responsiveness of an audience and CA. Using data from an earlier pilot study measuring for correlation between CA and perceived responsiveness in one‟s …
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An investigation into the relationship between speaking-in-class anxiety with instructor behaviour and classroom practices among Chinese ESL (English as a Second Language) first year undergraduates in a Hong Kong university
… practices with Chinese ESL speaking-in-class anxiety of a group of first-year university students in Hong Kong. The factors contributing to second language learning speaking-in-class anxiety (SA) are identified by means of interviews,a questionnaire and discussion. The relationship between …
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Exploring the impact of group work on communication apprehension for business students
… students lower their level of public speaking anxiety. The purpose of this study was to determine how a group public speaking assignment can impact the overall level of public speaking anxiety experienced by business students in a required oral communication course. Two established and …
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An assessment of curricular methods to reduce communication apprehension among public speaking students
… one hour instructional unit does not reduce the anxiety of high communication apprehensive students in a public speaking course.</p>
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Widening the lens: An interdisciplinary approach to examining the effect of exposure therapy on public speaking state anxiety.
… intervention for reducing public speaking state anxiety. A quasi-experiment was conducted to determine if a multiple-exposure treatment technique (TRIPLESPEAK) would help to attenuate public speaking anxiety. The treatment group reported experiencing significantly less state anxiety during their …
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Hardiness and public speaking anxiety: Problems and practices.
… construct of hardiness and public speaking anxiety. Although hardiness has been widely explored in a variety of anxiety-arousing life events, its relationship with communication anxiety had not been previously studied. Therefore, hardiness, public speaking trait anxiety, and public speaking …