Communication Apprehension (Co. (CA) (CO) By Mccroskey

Communication apprehension (CA) as McCroskey stated it “an anxiety syndrome associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons.” In another word, communication apprehension or speech anxiety is like an anxiety that occurs when an individual is speaking or communicating in front of a group, classroom, or people. However, not every individual will have the same kinds of communication apprehension or anxiety because there are four different types of CA. Dr. Patricia Palmerton stated “The higher score an individual get on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA) developed by McCroskey, the more anxiety that person has toward communication, the scores range from 80-120.” While those with a low

Trait like is one of the main reason why people have high or low CA, its depend on what your personal traits were for example, if a student likes to talk a lot that person have a low CA. Generalized-context are those who experiences anxiety during a situation for example, your friend has anxiety when giving a speech in front of the classroom. However, when he gives a speech in front of small group, he did not has the anxiety feeling. While person-group was when an individual experiences anxiety when communicating with a specific person such as a principal. Situational is having anxiety involving a specific situation for instance, you got your first ticket for

From the journal, “The Effects of Communication Apprehension on Nonverbal Behavior,” McCroskey described that CA has “handicapped” those who were affect by it. (paragraph 7). The problems were that it discouraged many individuals such as students with high CA to avoid involvement in group discussion, the lack of social skills, and less participation. Also, CA makes the students to interacted less than those who is with a low CA. For example, in a classroom, high CA would prefer to sit in the back of the room or on the side. In “Communication Apprehension and Shyness,” by Berger, McCroskey, and Richmond stated that those who have “substandard communication skills” or “ethnically or culturally divergent” also have a high CA that discourage them for communicating. (p.134,