APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Anticipatory and Post Public Speaking Anxiety: Contributing Personal Factors

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Social

Session: Poster Session X

Authors

Abstract

This study examined how personal characteristics may increase individual susceptibility to public speaking anxiety (PSA) in female undergraduate students. A mixed 3-way ANOVA revealed that individuals low in trait anxiety and low in neuroticism experienced significantly lower levels of state anxiety during the public speaking task.

Personality