Hardiness and public speaking anxiety: Problems and practices.

This study explored the relationship between the personality 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 state anxiety were measured in a course requiring an oral presentation assignment. One hundred fifty students enrolled in a basic speech communication course participated in the study. A statistically significant correlation was revealed between hardiness and trait communication anxiety. Students higher in hardiness reported lower trait communication apprehension in three contexts: 1) meeting, 2) interpersonal, and 3) group. Overall, students did not differ on measures of hardiness and a fourth communication context: public speaking anxiety. Likewise, on measures of hardiness and state public speaking anxiety, students did not differ.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Iba, Debra, L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lumsden, D. Barry
• Sawyer, Chris R.
• Fulton-Calkins, Patsy

• public speaking anxiety
• communication apprehension
• hardiness
• group context
• Resilience (Personality trait)
• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Speech anxiety.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Iba, Debra, L.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 191902349
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3960/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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