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Development of a measure of interpersonal communication competence
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In this article, the authors report the development of a self-report Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS) that taps 10 dimensions of competence: self-disclosure, empathy, social relaxation, assertiveness, interaction management, altercentrism, expressiveness, supportiveness, immediacy, and environmental control.Abstract:
This article reports the development of a self‐report Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS) that taps 10 dimensions of competence: self‐disclosure, empathy, social relaxation, assertiveness, interaction management, altercentrism, expressiveness, supportiveness, immediacy, and environmental control. First, we created the ICCS, reducing the number of items from an original 60 to 10. Then we established concurrent validity of the scale by looking at the ICCS's relationship to cognitive and communication flexibility.read more
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Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for the acquisition of interpersonal communication skills in the context of conversation and interaction, including nonverbal communication skills and nonverbal verbal communication skills.
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Social networks, communication styles, and learning performance in a CSCL community
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A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research
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The cognitive flexibility scale: Three validity studies
TL;DR: In this article, a positive relationship was found between being cognitively flexible and confidence in performing communication behaviors, which is related to two other identified constructs of communication competence, assertiveness and responsiveness.
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A 30-item schedule for assessing assertive behavior
TL;DR: A 30-item schedule for measuring assertiveness is presented in this paper, which is shown to have moderate to high testrestest reliability (r=78; p = p).