The Impact of Social Style on Person Perception and Attraction across Three Relationship Contexts.

Autor/inn/en	Snavely, William B.; Clatterbuck, Glen W.
Titel	The Impact of Social Style on Person Perception and Attraction across Three Relationship Contexts.
Quelle	(1980), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Assertiveness; Attitude Measures; Behavioral Science Research; College Students; Communication Research; Individual Characteristics; Interpersonal Attraction; Interpersonal Competence; Interpersonal Relationship; Measures (Individuals); Personality Traits; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Kommunikationsforschung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Interpersonale Anziehung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Messdaten; Individual characteristics; Prädiktor
Abstract	A study investigated the relationship between social style and a number of dimensions of person perception and interpersonal attraction. Social style was defined as a two-dimensional construct of assertiveness and responsiveness, which combined to reflect four social styles. Five hypotheses predicted that differences in social style would result in different perceptions of versatility, trust, power, credibility, and attraction. Two scales were used and factor analyzed to determine the best factors, which turned out to be supportiveness, sociability, task, and physical attraction. Based on this information, 400 college students were asked to fill out scales tapping the five factors while making references to a friend, an acquaintance, or a coworker. Factor analyses of the resultant data supported the use of all scales except the sociability dimension of credibility, and all resulting factors achieved acceptable reliability. With type of relationship and social style as independent variables and person perceptions as dependent variables, analyses of variance indicated that social style had a significant impact on all dimensions of person perception and attraction except physical attraction (which was anticipated). (Author/RL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01