caa a22 4500 477121764 CHVBK 20180405111638.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02229142 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02229142 Enduring without avoiding: Pauses and verbal dysfluencies in public speaking fear [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Lewin, Daniel McNeil, Jonathan Lipson] Direct measures of overt behavior have been underutilized in speech and other social fear, anxiety, and phobia research. This study demonstrates the usefulness of such variables in the evaluation of public speaking fear. A molecular behavioral assessment methodology was used to examine pauses and verbal dysfluencies of individuals with circumscribed speech fear (n=8) or general social anxiety (n=8), as well as nonanxious control participants (n=16), during an impromptu speech behavior test. Speech fear and generally social anxious individuals paused more often and for a longer duration than the nonanxious group. Results also indicated greater increases in state anxiety during the speech in the circumscribed speech fear sample, relative to the generalized social anxiety and control groups. Taken together with other research, these findings provide evidence that circumscribed speech fear is a meaningful subtype and can be independent of generalized social anxiety. The utility of measuring pausing and verbal dysfluencies in the behavioral assessment of speech fear and other social anxiety and phobia is discussed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 public speaking nationallicence fear nationallicence anxiety nationallicence behavioral assessment nationallicence Lewin Michael Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut McNeil Daniel Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut Lipson Jonathan Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 18/4(1996-12-01), 387-402 0882-2689 18:4<387 1996 18 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229142 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229142 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lewin Michael Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McNeil Daniel Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lipson Jonathan Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 18/4(1996-12-01), 387-402 0882-2689 18:4<387 1996 18 10862 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer