This study was carried out to analyze stress factors such as anxiety and depression on interpreters and interpreting students during simultaneous and remote interpreting. The study was taylored to interpeting conditions. The project was devided in two stages. During the first, data about the interpreters were collected to assess baseline values for psychological factors important for stress evaluation. In the second, the same group of interpreters underwent specific tests during simultaneous and remote interpreting.Psychometric instruments were chosen to this end. The results of the study show lower anxiety and depression values for interpreters than in the normal sample population, with interpeters being characterized by lower values than interpreting-students.
Interpretation and stress
RICCARDI, ALESSANDRA;
1998-01-01
Abstract
This study was carried out to analyze stress factors such as anxiety and depression on interpreters and interpreting students during simultaneous and remote interpreting. The study was taylored to interpeting conditions. The project was devided in two stages. During the first, data about the interpreters were collected to assess baseline values for psychological factors important for stress evaluation. In the second, the same group of interpreters underwent specific tests during simultaneous and remote interpreting.Psychometric instruments were chosen to this end. The results of the study show lower anxiety and depression values for interpreters than in the normal sample population, with interpeters being characterized by lower values than interpreting-students.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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