Effects of state anxiety on music performance: Relationship between the Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 subscales and piano performance

Musicae Scientiae

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-84

  Yoshie, Michiko ^a,b   Shigemasu, Kazuo ^a   Kudo, Kazutoshi ^a   Ohtsuke, Tatsuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety performance relationship; Music performance anxiety; Piano performance; Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory 2; Self confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649085217     PISSN: 10298649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1029864909013001003     Document Type: Article

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