VIRTUAL REALITY NATURE RELAXATION MENURUNKAN KECEMASAN BERBICARA DI DEPAN UMUM

Public speaking anxiety is one of the problems often experienced by final year students. There are quite a number of final year students who find it difficult when speaking in public, causing excessive anxiety. This study aims to determine the effect of virtual reality nature relaxation in reducing public speaking anxiety in final year students. This research design is quantitative experimental with the type of one group pretest-posttest design. This study used purposive sampling technique with 5 research subjects. This research instrument uses an adaptation of the Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) scale totaling 34 items. This study used Wilcoxon signed ranks test analysis. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results of public speaking anxiety (p = 0.043 <0.05) so that it is proven that virtual reality nature relaxation can have an effect in reducing public speaking anxiety in final year students. The implications of this study are expected to provide information to final year students who experience public speaking anxiety by providing virtual reality nature relaxation.