Performance Anxiety Coping Skills Seminar: Is It Effective in Reducing Musical Performance Anxiety and Enhancing Musical Performance Quality?

A pretest-posttest experimental study was conducted on 35 music majors at Taylor University, using questionnaires to measure musical performance anxiety and musical performance quality. The study compared the effectiveness of two different treatments: 1) informal practice performance and 2) a coping skills seminar. Though the students attending the seminar averaged less anxiety after treatment, neither treatment was proven statistically to be effective in reducing the level of anxiety or enhancing musical performance quality.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Department dc:contributor.department

Teaching and Learning

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Currie, Keith Allan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Burton, John K.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Magliaro, Susan G.
• Bachelder, Allen
• Glazebrook, James
• Garrison, James W.

• Performance anxiety
• coping skills
• relaxation
• social phobia
• cognitve therapy
• beta-blockers
• systematic desensitization
• stage fright

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-06132001-125529

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/28032