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The purpose of this study wee twofold: (a) To determine if there is a difference in physiological and psychological responses that measure performance anxiety between nonjury and jury conditions, and (b) to examine how open and double-blind jury conditions affect physiological, psychological, and behavioral components of performance anxiety and performance quality of music students. Sixty-four college music students in each of five instrumental areas and one vocal area participated in this study. The experiment was a pretest-posttest control group design with matching. Dependent variables were heart rate, scores of the State Anxiety scale of the State-Trait Anxiety inventory (STAI), performance quality ratings by judges, and behavior analysis of videotaped students' performances. Results showed significant increases in heart rate (F = 130.01, df = 1, p = .0001) and STAI scores (F = 23.92, df = 1, p = .0001) between non-jury and jury conditions, but no significant differences (F (4, 59) = .95, p = .444) occurred in heart rate, STAI scores, behavior, and performance quality due to open and blind jury conditions. Further analysis showed no association among variables suggesting that there may be different types of performance anxiety.
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