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

Jianfen Wu, Hui Li and Yunpeng Wu
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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

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-12

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.

Keywords: interoceptive accuracy; shyness; adolescents; public speaking; heartbeat perception (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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