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Item Communication apprehension among high school athletes(Texas Tech University, 2004-08) Stockstill, Carrie JCommunication apprehension (CA) in relation to high school athletes and non-athletes is significant and essential for coaches, teachers, and parents to understand. The researcher gathered data from four different high schools to determine CA differences between team sport athletes, individual sport athletes, and non-athletes. The differences between these groups and implications for high school faculty are discussed. Furthermore, future research in this area arguably is needed.Item The efficacy of video feedback on self-evaluation of performance and treatment of bilingual participants : a linguistically and culturally sensitive intervention for public speaking anxiet(2006-08) Perez, Magdalena, 1977-; Ramírez, Manuel, 1937-Abstract: The present study culturally modified a procedure known as video feedback that is being used to enhance exposure-based treatment for social anxiety. The video feedback intervention was modified in two ways. First, the video feedback procedure was modified to be administered in a bilingual fashion by having bilingual participants conduct their speech exposures in both of their known languages. Second, bilingual participants were asked to conduct their speech exposures in front of an audience composed of White or Latino members. The primary objective of the study was to investigate the potential treatment effects that the combination of treatment type (bilingual or English only) and audiencerace/ethnicity (White or Latino) had on speech anxious bilinguals’ outcomes of public speaking and social anxiety measures. Participants who were of Mexican descent, English-Spanish bilingual, and were experiencing moderate degrees of public speaking anxiety were randomized to one of four treatment conditions: (a) bilingual treatment in front of a White audience, (b) bilingual treatment in front of a Latino audience, (c) English-only treatment in front of a White audience or (d) English-only treatment in front of a Latino audience. Assessments were conducted at pre-treatment, post-treatment and a two week follow-up. Results indicated that participants assigned to the White audience conditions showed a modest degree of improvement on speech anxious thoughts associated to their Spanish speech performances and fear of being negatively evaluated by others. Participants assigned to the English-only treatment in front of a White audience showed the greatest degree of improvement on the general trait measure of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety. The four conditions, however, did not differ across time on measures that assessed for state-related measures of public speaking outcomes. The results of this study highlight the importance of implementing specific cultural modifications to make exposure tasks more closely resemble the cultural reality of minority students attending predominantly White institutions. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.Item Facilitating public speaking fear reduction by increasing the salience of disconfirmatory evidence(2004) Smits, Jasper Antonius; Telch, Michael Joseph.Abstract: The primary objective of the current study was to investigate whether adding videotape feedback procedures to exposure treatment would facilitate public speaking fear reduction. Participants meeting DSM-IV criteria for social phobia were randomized to receive non-pill placebo, exposure without videotape feedback, exposure with audience videotape feedback, or exposure with performance videotape feedback. Assessments were conducted at pretreatment, posttreatment, and 1-month follow-up. Having participants contrast actual audience responses to responses they imagined did not facilitate changes in participants’ predictions about the negative consequences of appearing anxious in front of others, nor did it result in greater anxiety reduction compared to exposure alone. On the other hand, having participants contrast their imagined performance to their actual performance accelerated the speed of improvement in public speaking anxiety. Further, this differential effect appeared to be cognitively mediated. Specifically, the speedier improvement in the performance videotape feedback condition was partially accounted for by changes in participants’ estimates of the likelihood of an anxious appearance when performing in front of others. Follow-up data revealed no differences among the exposure treatment conditions, suggesting that the enhanced efficacy associated with performance feedback was not durable. In general, the pattern of the findings underscored that social phobia is a severe form of anxiety pathology, that warrants a high dose of treatment. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.