The development and evaluation of an instrument for the behavioral assessment of speech anxiety is described. The BASA consists of eighteen behavioral variables which are separately rated on a ten‐point scale for degree of severity manifested during discrete speech segments. Testing of the BASA on videotape‐recorded classroom speeches of male college students provided evidence supporting its reliability and validity. Four orthogonal BASA factors resulted from varimax rotation: Rigidity, Inhibition, Disfluency, and Agitation.
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