Speech anxiety: Towards a theoretical conceptualization and preliminary scale development
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Speech Monographs
- Vol. 39 (1) , 62-67
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03637757209375739
Abstract
Anxiety experienced while in a public speaking situation (speech anxiety) is discussed within the framework of Trait‐State Anxiety Theory. Speech anxiety may be considered a dispositional variable designed to measure individual differences in speech anxiety proneness (Speech A‐Trait) or a measure of anxiety experienced during a particular speech (Speech A‐State). Physiological and behavioral measures of speech anxiety are typically viewed as A‐State measures. Self‐report indices may be considered either state or trait anxiety measures depending on the context in which the measures were obtained. The development of a scale to measure both Speech A‐State and Speech A‐Trait, including initial normative, reliability, and validity data, is reported.Keywords
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