The neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) treatment for anxiety, claimed to be a single-session cure for unpleasant feelings, was compared with self-control desensitization of equal duration and a waiting-list control group in treating public speaking anxiety. Fifty-five speech-anxious undergraduates underwent pretreatment and posttreatment assessments of anxiety during 4-min speeches. The results...

Public speaking is the act of making speeches in public or art effective oral communication with an audience. Fear common among students and general population. The National Institute Mental Health Report stated that anxiety considered a social disorder (Brewer, 2001). This research aimed to find out college St. Paul University Surigao. It sought answer participants’ levels as Trait Anxiety, Co...

From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people employ to cope with performance-induced anxiety: rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often cha...

It is often argued that exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders are only effective if the exposures are presented continuously until a marked decrement in anxiety is achieved (e.g. Foa & Kozak, 1986). However, the data supporting this conclusion is limited. This study compared two treatments for public speaking anxiety: one requiring participants to give one long speech on 3-5 topics (i...

Anxiety has a significant effect on oral communication, particularly when it occurs in the form of public address. The quality speaker's presentation may highly be determined by variety emotive elements. However, this received much too little attention realm academic conference presentations, despite fact that process incredibly nerve-wracking for both novice and experienced postgraduat...