title: Desire for control and communication-related personality variables.
abstract: In a sample of 95 university students, scores on a measure of desire for control correlated .37 with willingness to communicate, supporting the notion of control as a motive for communication and also correlated .43 with self-perceived communication competence but not with communication apprehension.
authors.affiliation: University College of Cape Breton, P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, NS Canada B1P 6L2. peter_macintyre@uccb.ca
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: MacIntyre
authors.forename: Leslie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Donovan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011209:Power, Psychological; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology