An Experiment of Public Speaking Anxiety on College Students

: Becoming a student in the field of health and service requires skills of public speaking. Students are trained to speak in public in order to present their project in front of the class, give opinions in the forum, give instructions to many people, etc. Unfortunately, in several occasions, there are students who showed some anxiety symptoms such as sweating, tension, trembling, nervousness, and pale face. In this study, we aimed to explore the level of public speaking anxiety on 97 students (54 psychology students, and 43 medical students). Data were collected with PRPSA (Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety) to identify the categories of public speaking anxiety. It was known that 47.4% of students had low public speaking anxiety, 48.5% in moderate category of public speaking anxiety, and only 4.1% in the high category of public speaking anxiety. Then, 54 pscyhology students were investigated of their public speaking anxiety based on listener’s characteristic. Result showed that there was the difference of public speaking anxiety based on listener’s characteristic on psychology students, the students who spoke in front of the listeners with higher educational level were more anxious than those who spoke in front of the listeners with lower educational level.