Good public speaking skills are essential in many professions as well as everyday life, but speech anxiety is a common problem. While it is established that public speaking training in virtual reality (VR) is effective, comprehensive studies on the underlying factors that contribute to this success are rare. The “quality evaluation of user-system interaction in virtual reality” framework for ev...

Abstract Purpose Many school-age children and adolescents who stutter experience the fear of public speaking. Treatment implications include need to address this problem. However, it is not always possible train repeatedly in front a real audience. The present study aimed assess relevance using virtual classroom clinical practice with stutter. Methods Ten (aged 9–17 years old) had speak three d...

Although decades of research have examined relationships between social anxiety and negative outcomes, this study examined relations with indices of positive psychological functioning. In college students (n = 204), a factor analysis on self-report measures of positive psychological functioning derived 3 conceptually meaningful broad domains: Positive Subjective Experiences, Curiosity, and Appe...

Abstract Language anxiety plays a key role in language learners’ silent behaviors class (King, 2013). Given its public nature and emphasis on interaction within it, the classroom context significant production of anxiety. Anxious people are more likely to negatively appraise situations, affecting their behavior. That is, it is not just subject content that causes anxiety, also cognitive process...

OBJECTIVE To adapt the trait version of the Self Statements during Public Speaking (SSPS) scale to a state version (SSPS-S) and to assess its discriminative validity for use in the Simulated Public Speaking Test (SPST). METHOD Subjects with and without social anxiety disorder (n = 45) were assessed while performing the SPST, a clinical-experimental model of anxiety with seven different phases...

The present study focuses on individual differences in levels of communicative anxiety (CA) and foreign language anxiety (FLA) in the first (L1), second (L2), third (L3) and fourth (L4) language of 106 adult language learners. Data were collected about CA / FLA levels when speaking with friends, with strangers, and speaking in public. The analyses revealed that multilinguals do experience more ...

social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by heightened fear and avoidance of one or more social or performance situations, including public speaking, meeting new people, eating or writing in front of others and attending social meetings. people with social phobia are typically anxious about the possibility that others will evaluate them negatively and/or notice symptoms of their anxie...

: To estimate the prevalence and to explore determinants of public speech anxiety (PSA) among family medicine trainees at Joint Program Family Medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2020. A cross-sectional study was conducted online for 131 residents who completed original version (34 items) Personal Report Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) scale. The PRPSA score (range 34-170) calculated as sum item sc...