title: The Effect of Combination of Video Feedback and Audience Feedback on Social Anxiety: Preliminary Findings.
abstract: Although video feedback (VF) is shown to improve appraisals of social performance in socially anxious individuals, its impact on state anxiety during a social situation is mixed. The current study investigated the effect of combined video feedback and audience feedback (AF) on self-perceptions of performance and bodily sensations as well as state anxiety pertaining to a speech task. Forty-one socially anxious students were randomly allocated to combined video feedback with audience feedback (VF + AF), video feedback only (VF), audience feedback only (AF), or a control condition. Following a 3-min speech, participants in the VF + AF, VF, and AF conditions watched the videotape of their speech with cognitive preparation in the presence of three confederates who served as audience, and/or received feedback from the confederates, while the control group watched their videotaped speech without cognitive preparation. Both VF + AF and AF conditions improved distorted appraisal of performance and bodily sensations as well as state anxiety. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia junwen.chen@flinders.edu.au.
authors.forename: Junwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mak
authors.affiliation: Shizuoka Prefectural Fujieda Special Education School, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D056228:Feedback, Sensory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D065812:Interoception; D008297:Male; D060805:Performance Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D012649:Self Concept; D013060:Speech; D014741:Video Recording; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: appraisals of bodily sensations; audience feedback; self-perceptions of performance; social anxiety; state anxiety; video feedback