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KMID : 0981220150150020291
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2015 Volume.15 No. 2 p.291 ~ p.312
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The effects of an acceptance-based treatment and trait speech anxiety on anxiety responses to a public-speaking situation
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Ha Kyeong-Bu
Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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The present study aimed to investigate the effect of an acceptance-based treatment on anxiety responses to a public-speaking situation in a sample of university students as compared with education about communication and also to examine whether its effect would be moderated by trait speech anxiety. Of the university students who completed the measure of their trait speech anxiety, seventy six undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either acceptance or education conditions. Participants’ anxiety responses to a public speaking situation was induced by asking them to prepare for and give an impromptu speech. After that, participants in each condition received the corresponding treatments. As expected, the acceptance condition showed significantly lower levels of subjective anxiety, systolic and diastolic pressures as measured immediately after treatment provision than the education condition. This effect of acceptance on diastolic pressure was also greater at higher levels of trait speech anxiety. While the main effect of treatment condition and the interaction effect of treatment condition with trait speech anxiety on any anxiety responses measured immediately after speech were not significant, the main effect of trait speech anxiety was significant. As expected, the effects of acceptance as compared with education on systolic and diastolic pressures at relaxation period were greater at higher levels of trait speech anxiety. In conclusion, these results suggest that acceptance may be a useful intervention for reducing anxiety responses to a public-speaking situation in non-clinical undergraduate samples and that the relative efficacy of an acceptance-based treatment may be partly moderated by trait speech anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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acceptance treatment, anxiety responses to a public-speaking situation, trait speech anxiety, treatment moderator
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