Table 4.
Correlations between flashforward imagery characteristics and anxiety and avoidance measures.
| Imagery characteristics | Anxiety and avoidance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perspective1,2 | Vividness | Distress | Feeling TER1 | PRCS1–SA | SAFE–avoid | Anticip -anx | Anticip -avoid | |
| Imagery characteristics | ||||||||
| Perspective1,2 | 1 | −0.07 | 0.20 | 0.20 | −0.04 | 0.34** | 0.08 | −0.02 |
| Vividness | − | 1 | 0.43** | 0.39** | 0.34** | 0.35** | 0.04 | 0.13 |
| Distress | − | − | 1 | 0.66** | 0.35** | 0.45** | 0.32* | 0.30* |
| Feeling TER1 | − | − | − | 1 | 0.42** | 0.51** | 0.36** | 0.32* |
| Anxiety and avoidance | ||||||||
| PRCS1–SA | − | − | − | − | 1 | 0.28* | 0.33* | 0.34** |
| SAFE–avoid | − | − | − | − | − | 1 | 0.37** | 0.31* |
| Anticip-anx | − | − | − | − | − | − | 1 | 0.55** |
| Anticip-avoid | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | 1 |
1Spearman’s rho, other correlation coefficients are Pearson correlations. 2Perspective ranged from, −2, “totally from my own eyes,” to 2, “totally from observers’ eyes.” PRCS, Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker; SA, speech anxiety; SAFE, Subtle Avoidance Frequency Examination questionnaire; avoid, avoidance behaviors; Anticip-anx, anticipatory anxiety; Anticip-avoid, anticipatory avoidance; Feeling TER, ‘the feeling that something terrible will happen’.
p < 0.05;
p < 0.01.