Effect of socio demographic factors on public speaking fear of the college Students

The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of socio demographic factors on public speaking fear. For this 74 college students studying in various colleges of Puducherry were approached at random using convenient sampling method. Public Speaking Fear questionnaire developed and standardized by Mc Croskey (1970) was used for data collection. Analysis was done by using independent sample t test and one-way ANOVA. Findings of the study revealed that the socio demographic factors like age, gender, course of study and place of living has significant effect on the public speaking fear of the students.