The purpose of this study was to examine the basic situation of evaluative apprehension perfectionism and performance anxiety among music college students, and then a survey was conducted to analyze 183 music college students from three universities in the southwest. The results of this study showed that both evaluative apprehension perfectionism and performance anxiety were at high levels among the study participants, and the mean value of evaluative apprehension perfectionism was higher than that of performance anxiety. In terms of the lower variables of evaluative apprehension, the mean scores were ranked from highest to lowest as apprehension of failure, doubt about performance, and socially compulsive perfection, respectively.

Baiyan Du, Lina Shuai, Yuege Lai. A Study of Evaluative Apprehension Perfectionism and Performance Anxiety in Music Performance: The Case of Music College Students in Southwest China. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 16: 84-88. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041611.

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