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Drooping out: Relationship of speaking anxiety to self-esteem, crime, and educational achievement
A D Witherspoon1, C K Long, E B Nickell
1Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Montgomery, AL 36193-0401.
Psychological Reports
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
This study focused on the relationship that anxiety about speaking has to educational achievement, self-esteem, and type of crime. The data gathered from 46 female felons indicated significant relationships and suggested that programs designed to decrease anxiety about speaking can be effectively presented. Perhaps such treatment should be the first step in developing and correcting deficiencies in skills thereby preventing the skid toward dropping out and delinquency.