RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Embodied strategies for public speaking anxiety: evaluation of the Corp-Oral program
A1 García Monge, Alfonso Jorge
A1 Guijarro Romero, Santiago
A1 Santamaría Vázquez, Eduardo
A1 Martínez Álvarez, Lucio
A1 Bores Calle, Nicolás Julio
K1 Public speak anxiety
K1 Embodied pedagogy
K1 Embodied strategies
K1 Body awareness
K1 Teacher training
K1 Teachers’ embodied experience
K1 EEG
K1 6102.05 Patología del Lenguaje
K1 5801.07 Métodos Pedagógicos
AB Background: Public speaking is an indispensable skill that can profoundlyinfluence success in both professional and personal spheres. Regrettably,managing anxiety during a speech poses a significant challenge for many of thepopulation. This research assessed the impacts of a Corp-Oral program, designedto manage public speaking anxiety in university students, based on, bodyawareness, embodied message techniques, simulation, embodied visualization,body transformation, and gesture enhancement.Methods: Thirty-six students (61% women; Mage = 20.22, SD = 1.23 years) wererandomly assigned to either an experimental group (n = 18), which underwentthe Corp-Oral program, or a control group (n = 18). Self-perceived anxiety, heartrate, and electroencephalography were measured in a pre-test and a post-test.Results: The study reveals that the Corp-Oral program significantly (p < 0.005)reduced both physiological responses (heart rate) and self-reported measures ofanxiety. The alteration was more noticeable in self-reported anxiety measures (adecrease of 33.217%) than in heart rate (a decrease of 4.659%). During the speech,the experimental group exhibited increased cortical activation in areas related toemotional regulation, consciousness, sensorimotor integration, and movementcontrol. A significant increase in frontal alpha asymmetry was observed for theexperimental group in the post-test, but there were no significant variations inthe theta/beta ratio.Conclusion: These findings underline the benefit of managing public speakinganxiety not merely by reducing it but by channeling it through embodiedstrategies. These strategies could lead to greater action awareness that wouldcushion the physiological effect of the anxiety response and help generate abetter self-perception of the anxiety state.
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1662-5161
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64289
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64289
LA eng
NO Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023, 17
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 15-ene-2025