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The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) [14] is a 33-question, 5-point Likert scale survey, which is widely used in research studies. It investigates participants' communication apprehension, test-anxiety and fear of negative evaluation and focuses on speaking in a classroom context.
The Anxiety Disorders Association (originally called the Phobia Society of America) was founded by Jerilyn Ross, Robert Dupont, Martin Seif, Arthur Hardy, and Manuel Zane in 1980. [10] It was officially incorporated on December 1, 1980, and was renamed to the Anxiety Disorders Association in 1990. [1]
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Phobias are irrational; they cannot be reasoned away. In the case of most phobias, a qualified councilor or trained psychologist is needed to help a child overcome their phobia. [3] Cognitive behavioural therapy is routinely used to treat phobias in the UK over several sessions. Research has shown that a single session of cognitive behavioural ...
Flooding is a psychotherapeutic method for overcoming phobias. In order to demonstrate the irrationality of the fear, a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia. Under controlled conditions and using psychologically-proven relaxation techniques, the subject attempts to replace their fear with relaxation.
Test anxiety can be diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV, under the classification of social phobia. [8] Social phobias are characterized by a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur. In order to be diagnosed as suffering from a social phobia, the DSM-IV states that the ...
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, describes an intense fear and avoidance of negative public scrutiny, public embarrassment, humiliation, or social interaction. This fear can be specific to particular social situations (such as public speaking) or it can be experienced in most or all social situations.
As a group, those with generalized social phobia are less likely to graduate from high school and are more likely to rely on government financial assistance or have poverty-level salaries. [205] Surveys carried out in 2002 show the youth of England , Scotland , and Wales have a prevalence rate of 0.4 percent, 1.8 percent, and 0.6 percent ...