Combined Audience and Video Feedback With Cognitive Review Improves State Anxiety and Self-Perceptions During Speech Tasks in Socially Anxious Individuals. Issue 2 (March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Junwen; McLean, Jordan E.; Kemps, Eva
• Is Part Of: Behavior therapy. Volume 49:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 165
• Page End: 179
• Publication Date: 2018-03
• Subjects: video feedback -- audience feedback -- state anxiety -- perceived probability of negative evaluation -- perception of performance; Behavior therapy -- Periodicals; 616.8914205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2017.11.006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0005-7894

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigated the effects of combined audience feedback with video feedback plus cognitive preparation, and cognitive review (enabling deeper processing of feedback) on state anxiety and self-perceptions including perception of performance and perceived probability of negative evaluation in socially anxious individuals during a speech performance. One hundred and forty socially anxious students were randomly assigned to four conditions: Cognitive Preparation + Video Feedback + Audience Feedback + Cognitive Review (CP + VF + AF + CR), Cognitive Preparation + Video Feedback + Cognitive Review (CP + VF + CR), Cognitive Preparation + Video Feedback only (CP + VF), and Control. They were asked to deliver two impromptu speeches that were evaluated by confederates. Participants' levels of anxiety and self-perceptions pertaining to the speech task were assessed before and after feedback, and after the second speech. Compared to participants in the other conditions, participants in the CP + VF + AF + CR condition reported a significant decrease in their state anxiety and perceived probability of negative evaluation scores, and a significant increase in their positive perception of speech performance from before to after the feedback. These effects generalized to the second speech. Our results suggest that adding audience feedback to video feedback plus cognitive preparation and cognitive review may improve the effects of existing video feedback procedures in reducing anxiety symptoms and distorted self-representations in socially anxious individuals. Highlights: Added audience feedback (AF) to video feedback with cognitive preparation (CP + VF) AF plus CP + VF and cognitive review (CR) had superior effects on anxiety reduction AF plus CP + VF and CR produced superior effects on reducing negative perceptions The effects of AF plus CP + VF and CR generalised to a second speech Adding AF may enhance the effects of existing video feedback protocols