A progress report on the development of an instrument to measure communication apprehension in employment interviews
- 6 June 1993
- journal article
- instructional and-applied-contexts
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communication Research Reports
- Vol. 10 (1) , 85-94
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08824099309359920
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument designed to measure communication apprehension in employment interviews. The Personal Report of Communication Apprehension in Employment Interviews (PRCAEI) consists of 5 items. Factor analysis revealed that all 5 items loaded on a single factor with a reliability of 89. The instrument showed reasonable overlap and divergence from the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension. As expected, the PRCAEI was inversely correlated with willingness to communicate and self‐perceived communication competence; Those with relatively high PRCAEI scores also reported entertaining more negative thoughts in imagined interviews than those with relatively low PRCAEI scores. Implications of these findings are discussed at the conclusion of this report.Keywords
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