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Trait and State: Interoceptive Accuracy during Anticipation of Public Speaking in Junior Secondary Shy Students from an Eastern Province of China

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  • Jianfen Wu

    (School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China)

  • Hui Li

    (School of Education, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia)

  • Yunpeng Wu

    (School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan 250014, China)

Abstract

This study investigated the interoceptive accuracy (IAc) of shy adolescents during anticipation of public speaking with a 2 × 2 factorial design. Altogether, 637 junior secondary students in an eastern province of China were sampled and screened with the Chinese version of Cheek and Buss shyness scale. The top 27% of students were considered the shy group ( n = 30, 16 girls, M age = 13.03, SD = 0.67), whereas the bottom 27% were labelled the non-shy group ( n = 31, 16 girls, M age = 13.16, SD = 0.86). The two groups of participants estimated their heart rates during specified intervals using a mental tracking paradigm in two conditions (baseline vs. anticipation), while their actual heart rates were simultaneously measured. The results indicated that: (1) the shy adolescents were more accurate in estimating their actual heart rate than non-shy adolescents; and (2) both shy and non-shy adolescents exhibit enhanced IAc in anticipation conditions when compared with baseline conditions. Implications of the higher IAc of shy adolescents and the state feature of IAc are discussed.

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  • Jianfen Wu & Hui Li & Yunpeng Wu, 2021. "Trait and State: Interoceptive Accuracy during Anticipation of Public Speaking in Junior Secondary Shy Students from an Eastern Province of China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(9), pages 1-12, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:9:p:4951-:d:549684
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