A incidência do medo de falar em público no curso de letras da universidade federal do norte do Tocantins Câmpus de Araguaína.

Abstract

Considering that the fear of speaking in public is something that affects the quality of life and interpersonal relationships, we researched the students of the Letters course at the Federal University of Northern Tocantins about the fear of speaking in public, its possible difficulties and its consequences. For that, we carried out a quantitative and qualitative research through an online questionnaire with semi-open questions that were answered by 47 students. The questionnaire was designed considering three aspects: student profile, fear of speaking in public and in which circumstances, limitations and suffering generated by the difficulty. As a result, we noticed an incidence of young, female, single people with a very high prevalence of fear of public speaking and self-perception of physical symptoms (tachycardia, changes in breathing, etc.) and emotional symptoms, including some with pathological aspects such as panic and despair. It is concluded that the fear of public speaking is a factor that significantly interferes in the academic and personal lives of students and needs to be addressed as a strategy to improve the course.