Spiritual Quotient Survey

Acknowledgement

First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Shalini Upadhyay, my mentor for this project, for her constant support and guidance during the course of this project. Her deep and spot-on insights at various points in the project were extremely valuable and irreplaceable.
Next I would like to thank Sugandhita (2011B1A8674G) and Pradyumna Raparti (2011B1A8668G) for their immense help especially during the data collection phase and the data entry phase of the project. I would also like to express my gratitude to Mr. Shivansh Tripathi (ID: 2010B2A8655G) for his immense help especially when I was stuck at some critical junctures of Spiritual Quotient calculation
Last but not the least; I would like to thank

The initial phase involved establishing a relationship model between the two, which will later be verified using a psychometric survey. In our model we argue that a higher Spiritual Quotient will help reducing Fear of Communication and through the survey results we will try to discern the validity of this statement. Our major hypothesis is that SQ and CA are indirectly related, i.e. if a person has high SQ he should have low CA but not vice versa, and to study the interdependencies we have suggested a conceptual model whose validity will be tested in the analysis of the

Various researchers have given different nomenclatures to their concept of stage fright or public speaking anxiety. In 1976 McCroskey coined the term “Communication Apprehension (CA)” and refers to as “the fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons”. This syndrome is similar to "reticence." Phillips has defined a "reticent" person as one "for whom anxiety about participation in oral communication outweighs his projection of gain from the situation. McCoskey has discussed about CA in length in his many papers, in his first paper on CA, he focused clearly on oral communication. According to McCroskey there are four types of Apprehensions or fears of communication. They are elaborated as follows:-
Traitlike Fear is viewed as a relatively enduring, personality-type orientation toward a given mode of communication across a wide variety of contexts. Traitlike CA occurs when a person feels anxious about communication in general weather that communication occurs in a one to one, small groups or a public speaking context. This is the type of CA to which most of the research has been directed over the past