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Peer reviewedPelias, Mary Hinchcliff; Pelias, Ronald J. – Communication Education, 1988
Examines the narrative accounts of the aesthetic performance experience as related by high communication apprehensives (HCA's) and low communication apprehensives (LCA's). Indicates that while both HCA's and LCA's commonly label themselves as apprehensive about performance, their characterizations of the performance experience differ significantly…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Watson, Arden K. – 1988
A study examined stages and objectives of a systematic desensitization (SD) program and its effects on subject reported apprehension levels and perceived benefits and behavior changes toward public speaking. Subjects, 19 freshmen and sophomore university students, were administered the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension-24 (PRCA-24).…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Download full textMcDowell, Earl E.; Schuelke, L. David – 1998
This study explored the relationships among communication technologies, communication apprehension, writing apprehension, and computer anxiety. Participants were 130 students from a variety of undergraduate oral communication classes in a large midwestern university who completed a modified form, 10 items, of McCroskey's Personal Report of…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Computer Anxiety, Computer Mediated Communication
