noorallah mohammadi; fateme bita
Abstract
kenny defines Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) as the maeked and constant anxiety of musicians about their performance which shows itself in combination of affective, cognitive, physical, and behavioral symptoms. The aim of this research was normalization Dianna T. kennys MPA questionnaire among Iranian ...
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kenny defines Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) as the maeked and constant anxiety of musicians about their performance which shows itself in combination of affective, cognitive, physical, and behavioral symptoms. The aim of this research was normalization Dianna T. kennys MPA questionnaire among Iranian sample. The descriptive-surveyial and correlation method was used in this research. In total 450 musicians, teachers and students, who have experienced stage-performance in two city, Mashhad and specially Shiraz, participated in this research and completed MPA questionnaire and Spielberger state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI). Convergent validity , internal consistency and factorial analysis methods have used in order to examination the validity and reliability MPA questionnaire. Finally The results showed: internal consistency in terms of Kronbakhs Alpha is 0/82 and concurrent validity with STAI is 0/16 which are significant in 0001/0 level. The results of factorial analysis also showed that this questionnaire has two factors which these two factors are able to explain 35/14 of the variance. This tow factors are called performance anxiety or shift attention and anxiety .According to these results, current research confirms and supports from reliability and validity of MPA questionnaire among Iranian sample and thus MPA questionnaire is applicable among Iranian society. Performance Anxiety – Music Performance Anxiety questionnaire- validity- reliability-factorial analysis مق
