Naslov
Fear at Delivering Presentations: Relations to Age

Autori
Šimičević, Vanja ; Jurić, Višnja ; Ćurlin, Tamara

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), ostalo

Izvornik
Proceeding of the Entrenova-ENTerprice RESearch InNOVAtion Conference (Online) / - , 2020, 37-49

Skup
6th ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (ENTRENOVA 2020)

Mjesto i datum
Online, 10.09.2020. - 12.09.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
presentation skills ; fear ; public speech ; correspondence analysis ; education

Sažetak
Highly polished presentations skills became prevalent communication technique in various academic and business disciplines fields. Presentation competencies became not just preferable, but indispensable for graduates on the employment market. The fear is the main reason, which decreases the presentation’s deliveringquality, so the teachers include presentations into curricula from early stages of educations. Scholars continuously develop techniques and methods, which reduce student stress and anxiety during a presentation performance. However, different methods are effective for different types of fears and anxieties. The purpose of this paper is to establish is their connection between different age groups and different types of fear. The research was undertaken on a sample of 495 students from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, and the correspondence analysis was used to examine the data. The evidence from this study confirmed that the different age groups are more prone to different kind of fears, and it provided a deeperunderstanding of the origins of student presentation fears. The results could be beneficial both for scholars who can use this paper for developing further investigations and for practitioners who work with students, for developing specific methods for different kind of fears and age groups.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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