An Exploratory Study of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Communication Anxiety

Abstract

This thesis is an exploratory study of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and its capabilities to provide a technique or a composite technique that will reduce the anxiety associated with making an oral brief or presentation before a group, sometimes referred to as Communication Apprehension. The composite technique comes from NLP and Time Line Therapy, which is an extension to NLP. Student volunteers (17) from a Communications course given by the Administrative Sciences Department were taught this technique. For each volunteer, an informational oral presentation was made and videotaped before the training and another informational oral presentation made and videotaped following the training. The before and after training presentations for each individual volunteer were evaluated against criteria for communications anxiety and analyzed to determine if there was a noticeable reduction of anxiety after the training. Anxiety was reduced in all of the volunteers in this study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA277756

Entities

People

  • Lois M. Brunner

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • California
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Consciousness
  • Data Analysis
  • Education
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • Training

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.