E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The aims of the present study are both to construct the Korean version of an instrument which has been world-widely used to measure speech anxiety and to examine its reliability and validity. The 'Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker5 was translated into Korean. Several self-report inventories including the Korean version of Speech Anxiety Scale (K-SAS)were administered to 212 college students. Item analyses of their responses on K-SAS indicated two of 30 items weren't appropriate, and thus 28 items were finally selected to construct K-SAS. K-SAS is highly reliable in terms of internal consistency, split-half reliability, and test-retest reliability, and also has good concurrent validity. It was more strongly correlated with Speech Anxiety Hierarchy, another Speech Anxiety Scale than with the Korean version of Beck Depression Inventory; therefore, this supports good discriminat validity of K-SAS. Factor analysis reveals that K-SAS has two factors labeled 'Enjoyment of Speech Situation' and 'Tension of Speech Situation'. In conclusion, K-SAS appears to be a highly reliable, valid measure to assess speech anxiety in college students.