ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Effects of Gender and Ethnicity on Public Speaking Anxiety

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Personality/Emotion Psychology

  • Stephanie Ottinger
    Avila University
  • Lea Morvan
    Avila University
  • Dante Morello
    Avila University
  • Lindsay Wing
    Avila University
  • Marcia Pasqualini
    Avila University

Abstract

We compared differences in gender and ethnicity for student’s self-reported public speaking anxiety, anxiety, and depression. We found a statistically significant main effect of gender with women reporting higher public speaking anxiety and no main effect of ethnicity or interaction effects.

Psychopathology