Abstract
This study investigated the relationships among trait anxiety, audience nonverbal feedback, attributions, and public speaking state anxiety. Fifty-nine (N = 59) undergraduate students randomly assigned to either a positive or negative condition of audience nonverbal feedback delivered an impromptu speech and completed a trait anxiety measure, state anxiety scale, and attributional questionnaire about audience nonverbal feedback. The results provided some support for a path model indicating that negative nonverbal feedback increased external attributions, which, in turn, increased state anxiety. Trait anxiety was not more predictive of state anxiety than nonverbal feedback.
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