Assessing public speaking fear with the short form of the Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker scale: Confirmatory factor analyses among a French-speaking community sample

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 609-618

  Heeren, Alexandre ^a,b   Ceschi, Grazia ^c   Valentiner, David P ^d   Dethier, Vincent ^a   Philippot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Public speaking; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL REPORT OF CONFIDENCE AS SPEAKER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC SPEAKING; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; VALIDITY;

EID: 84877284941     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S43097     Document Type: Article

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