Anticipatory Speech Anxiety as a Function of Public Speaking Assignment Type

Autor/inn/en	Witt, Paul L.; Behnke, Ralph R.
Titel	Anticipatory Speech Anxiety as a Function of Public Speaking Assignment Type
Quelle	In: Communication Education, 55 (2006) 2, S.167-177 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0363-4523
Schlagwörter	Anxiety; Public Speaking; Assignments; Speech Communication; Speeches; Undergraduate Students; Measures (Individuals); Hypothesis Testing; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Vortrag; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Messdaten; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	This investigation included two studies relating anticipatory public speaking anxiety to the nature of the speech assignment. Based on uncertainty reduction theory, which suggests that communicators are less comfortable in unfamiliar or unpredictable contexts, two hypotheses were advanced on the presumption that various types of assignments in a speech performance course do not produce the same levels of anticipatory anxiety. The hypotheses were supported in both trait and state anxiety studies, where certain differences in narrowband anticipatory speech anxiety were detected among different types of informative speeches: impromptu, extemporaneous, and manuscript reading. These findings extend the tenets of uncertainty reduction theory to the public speaking context and suggest implications for both therapeutic intervention and pedagogical application. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10