Stage fright, also referred to as
"Performance anxiety" is essentially a feeling of nervousness or
uneasiness one gets before a public speech, dance, acting, and
music performance or even when just facing the audience. There
are four different parts of Stage Fright: Anticipation is assumption of
negative and impractical images of the performance. Avoidance is the want
to avoid doing the particular task. Panic and anxiety are the
symptoms experience before the presentation. And appraisal is the period of time
after performance when the performer looks back on how the activity
was performed.
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Performance anxiety is a very unruly level of anxiety
that can expand in any given situation where you have to perform an activity and
present yourself. It occurs in both public or private situations but whatever
the background is, the pattern of behaviour is normally the same. Initially,
what happens when you experience performance anxiety is that you begin to
worry, thinking about the things that could go wrong. Then anxiety develops and
the anxiety gets in the way of your own staging. Performance anxiety is a very
common sexual problem as well in which anxiety about engaging in sexual
activity becomes a block to sexual feelings, emotions and thoughts. It can
result in avoidance of sexual encounters, lowered self-esteem, and relationship
problems. The individuals who have experienced stage fright before feel the
way they feel during performing themselves because of certain reasons. I will explain in more detail of some of the certain reasons people experience stage fright down below in my different posts!
Studer, R., Gomez, P., Hildebrandt, H., Arial, M., & Danuser, B. (2011). Stage fright: Its experience as a problem and coping with it. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 84(7), 761-71. doi:http://dx.doi.org.library.sheridanc.on.ca/10.1007/s00420-010-0608-1
Carandang, C. (2015, Dec 6). How Performance Anxiety Develops. [Video File]. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC4RsxPTntU&t=1s
This video explains in depth detail on what is performance anxiety, it shows diagrams of the cycle how it works, examples, thoughts and behaviours of individuals when they are experiencing Stage fright. It is very easy to understand on how it develops and you could get a better understanding of Stage fright.
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