The relationship between students' self-reported aggressive communication and motives to communicate with their instructors.
Using a convenience sample, 172 college students' (M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 2.5) motives for communicating with their instructors and their own verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness were studied using the Argumentativeness Scale, the Verbal Aggressiveness Scale, and the Student Motives to Communicate Scale. Significant negative relationships were obtained between students' self-reports of argumentativeness and the sycophantic motive and between students' self-reports of verbal aggressiveness and the functional motive, but generally, students' motives to communicate with their instructors generally were not associated with their self-reported aggressive communication behaviors.
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Chad
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School of Communication, Western Michigan University, 300 Sprau Tower, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA. chad.edwards@wmich.edu
Myers
Scott A
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D001242:Assertiveness; D003142:Communication; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D055815:Young Adult