Social Desirability as a Predictor of Argumentativeness and Communication Apprehension
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 128 (4) , 433-438
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1994.9712749
Abstract
Strahan and Gerbasi's (1972) social desirability scales were used to identify 70 American undergraduate students as high social-desirability and 98 students as low social-desirability individuals. I hypothesized that high social-desirability individuals would be more apprehensive and less argumentative in the process of communication. Infante and Rancer's (1982) Argumentativeness Scale and McCroskey's (1982) Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) were used to test the hypotheses. Both hypotheses were confirmed.Keywords
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