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"The results vary by gender, type of high school and level of study. On the other hand, age, nationality and field of study do not play a role. Women have up to 1.5 times higher speaking anxiety scores than men. For non-binary people, it is even double that of men," said Tomas Lintner from the National Institute of SYRI and Masaryk University.
Read more: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-024-06216-w
Photo: Tomáš Lintner
College students still have a large deficit in their public speaking, which is crucial to their academic and career success. This often leads to anxiety. Public speaking anxiety is more common among women and non-binary people. Paradoxically, high school graduates are more likely to have problems with verbal expression than those who come to college from vocational high schools. Anxiety about public speaking is more common among undergraduate students than among graduate students, for example. This is according to a study by SYRI National Institute researchers who analyzed the public speech of a total of 1,745 college students.
Tomáš Lintner works at the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences of the FF Masaryk University, where he researches the social relations of pupils, students and teachers and the influence of social relations on bullying, the risk of drop-out and the spread of attitudes. In research, SYRI is currently investigating the integration of Ukrainian pupils into Czech schools and the effectiveness of motivational scholarships on the performance of university students.