Question

Anna has never enjoyed giving speeches, so when she is assigned an informative speech in her public speaking course, she immediately feels worried and stressed. Her anxiety started to decrease as she beings working on the speech because she feels more in control of the situation. However, immediately before her speech, Anna feels the pressure and is very stressed once again. Anna has been experiencing what type of anxiety

Answer 1

Anticipatory anxiety

Step-by-step explanation:

Anticipatory anxiety can be defined as the way in which a person becomes tense or develop phobia whenever they have a tasks or an event .

A person with anticipatory anxiety will often becomes scared or afraid when thinking about an event that may or may not occur in the future or even present event in which they have to attend leading to increase in anxiety .

In some cases such person may try by all means to avoid such event due to the high level of anxiety that he/she had.

Thereby anticipatory anxiety can be reduce if the person breath in and out before the event .

Therefore Anna has been experiencing ANTICIPATORY anxiety.

Answer 2

The answer is anticipatory anxiety.

Step-by-step explanation:

Anticipatory anxiety is a condition in which a person experiences a sense of worry about an event that will occur in the future.

While it is considered normal to feel concerned about new situations, and for this reason anticipatory anxiety is not really considered a disorder, sometimes the anxiety may come from unthreatening situations such as riding the bus to work. In these cases, it may be a symtpom of a more severe condition such as generalised anxiety disorder.