The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of cognitive and behavioral speech-anxiety program on the middle school students' pubic speech anxiety, public speech behavior, and self-esteem.
To select the subjects of this study, Speech anxiety ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of cognitive and behavioral speech-anxiety program on the middle school students' pubic speech anxiety, public speech behavior, and self-esteem.
To select the subjects of this study, Speech anxiety scale was tested to the 1st-year 112 students of a middle school in Haeundae-Ku, Busan-metropolitan city. 30 students who proved to be higher than others in Speech anxiety were selected as the subjects. They were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. But The only 11 students who wanted to take part in the experimental group participated in the Reduction Training of Speech Anxiety. To
measure the effects of the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program, Speech Anxiety Scale, Public Speaking Behavior Scale, and Self-Esteem Scale were used. The Experimental Group took part in the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program twice a week, for total 9 sections, which was mainly composed of RET(Rational-Emotive Therapy), Systematic Desensitization, and Public Speaking Training and developed by the researcher. Through ANCOVA, the differences of pretest and posttest among the Experimental and the Control group were measured. According to the procedure above this study was progressed. And the result are as follows;
First, the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program has an effect on the reduction of the public speech anxiety of the middle school students.
Second, the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program has an effect on the increase of the public speaking anxiety of the middle school students.
Third, the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program has an effect on the increase of the Belt-esteem of the middle school students.
This study examined integratively the effects of the Cognitive and Behavioral Speech Anxiety Program on the aspects of Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral of the middle school students who experience the radical change in physical and emotive aspects. And this study is expected to help the students who suffer from speech anxiety to decrease speech anxiety which is caused by their irrational beliefs, by increasing public speaking behavior and self-esteem, to positively adjust themselves to their school circumstances, to form social human relationship and desirable personality.