Measuring Glossophobia among University Students

Abstract

The present research aims at measuring gloss phobia among university stu-dents at the colleges of Education for Human Sciences and Education for Pure Science for the academic year (2017-2018). The researcher adopted Abood's 2014 scale for measuring glossophobia. The scale consists of 36 items distributed according to a three dimensional scale. It was constructed in Palestine for the students of Psychological Counseling. After being tested by a number of statistical operations, its reliability and stability have been proved. The scale was applied to 360 students. The results show that the research sample do have glossophobia. The researcher proposed a number of suggestions and recommendations.