Personal Report of Communication Apprehension—Adaptation, Application and Validation on Portuguese Accounting Students

This investigation aims to use and adapt the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24), validated by (McCroskey et al. in Commun. Q. 33:165–173, 1985), to Portuguese Higher Education students who attended the Degree in Accounting, in the academic year 2019/2020. After adapting the scale, psychometric validation was carried out in order to make it a valid instrument in studies on this population. For this purpose, we used the Exploratory Factor Analysis methodology and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, we proceeded to the test of the original PRCA-24 scale, after which we realized that this scale provides significant results of validity and statistical reliability that allowed us to measure oral apprehension of Higher Education Accounting students in Portugal, in a reliable and robust way. This investigation presents an important contribution to the body of literature, even though the PRCA-24 has already been applied in several contexts, this is the first study to focus on adaptation and validation in accounting students, studying Accounting in Portugal.