Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook

by Rebecca B. Rubin, Alan M Rubin, Elizabeth E. Graham, Elizabeth M. Perse, David Seibold

Overview

Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and group/organizational communication areas, and highlights work in newer subdisciplines in communication, including intercultural, family, and health. It also includes measures from outside the communication discipline that have been employed in communication research.

The measures profiled here are "the best of the best" from the early 1990s through today. They are models for future scale development as well as tools for the trade, and they constitute the main tools that researchers can use for self-administered measurement of people's attitudes, conceptions of themselves, and perceptions of others. The focus is on up-to-date measures and the most recent scales and indexes used to assess communication variables.

Providing suggestions for measurement of concepts of interest to researchers; inspiring students to consider research directions not considered previously; and supplying models for scale developers to follow in terms of the work necessary to produce a valid and reliable measurement instrument in the discipline, the authors of this key resource have developed a significant contribution toward improving measurement and providing measures for better science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805851328
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/14/2009
Series:	Routledge Communication Series
Pages:	526
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rebecca B. Rubin, Alan M Rubin, Elizabeth E. Graham, Elizabeth M. Perse, David Seibold

Table of Contents

Part I

Measurement Trends and Issues

Measurement in Family Communication – Elizabeth E. Graham & Joseph P. Mazer

Measurement in Organizational and Group Communication – David R. Seibold

Measurement in Health Communication – Nichole Egbert & Rebecca B. Rubin

Measurement in Instructional Communication – Rebecca B. Rubin

Measurement in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication – David R. Seibold, Rebecca B. Rubin, & Alan M. Rubin

Measurement in Interpersonal Communication — Elizabeth E. Graham & Scott Titsworth

Measurement in Mass Communication – Elizabeth M. Perse

Part II

Measure Profiles

Affectionate Communication Index

Attachment Style Measure

Aukland Individualism and Collectivism Scale

Child-Parent Communication Apprehension

Cognitive Elaboration Scale

Communication Functions Questionnaire

Communicative Response to Romantic Jealousy Scale

Family Communication Standards Instrument

Group Development Questionnaire

Humor Orientation Scale

Individuals’ Criteria for Telling Family Secrets

Intercultural Development Inventory

Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale

Interpersonal Dominance Instrument

Learner Empowerment

Listening Styles Profile

Marital Opinion Questionnaire

Measure of Source Credibility

Medical Communication Competence Scale

Normative Message Processing Scale

Organizational Assimilation Index

Organizational Dissent Scale

Organizational Listening Survey

Organizational Reputation Scale

Organizational Temporality Scale

Organizational-Public Relationship Scale

Patient Self-Advocacy Scale

Perceived Message Sensation Value Scale

Perceived Power Measure

Perceived Teacher Confirmation Scale

Perceptions of Television Reality

Personal Report of Marital Virtues Scale

Presence Questionnaire

Reactance Restoration Scale

Relational Distance Index

Relational Maintenance Strategy Measure

Relational Uncertainty Measure

Reticence Scale

Revised Family Communication Pattern Instrument

Revised learning Indicators Scale

Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale

Sad Film Scale

Self-Assessment Manikin

Self-Construal Scales

Sexual Harassment Proclivity Index

Small Group Relational Satisfaction Scale

Small Group Socialization Scale

Social Presence Scale

Socio-Communicative Style

Student Motives to Communicate Scale

Teacher Misbehaviors Scale

Television Addiction Scale

Television Mediation Scale

Third Person Effect

Topic Avoidance

Willingness to Censor Survey

Part III

Measures Imported from Related Disciplines – Alan M. Rubin

Aggression, Hostility, and Anger

Anxiety

Locus of Control

Loneliness

Need for Cognition

Personality Traits

Self-Esteem

Sensation Seeking

Shyness and Sociability

Social Desirability

Author Index

Subject Index