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Research is reported indicating significant relationships between communication apprehension and 18 of 21 personality variables studied. High communication apprehension was found to be associated with a wide range of socially maladaptive personality characteristics.Communication apprehension is a broad-based fear or anxiety related to the act of communication held by a large number of individuals. High communication apprehensives are persons for whom apprehension about participating in communication outweighs the projected gain from communicating in a given situation (Phillips, 1968;McCroskey, 1970). Such persons anticipate negative feelings and outcomes from communication, and will avoid communication, if possible, or suffer from a variety of anxiety-type feelings when forced to communicate.Previous research has indicated the pervasive nature of communication apprehension. Estimates of the magnitude of severely affected individuals range from 5 to 20 percent of the population. In a recent nationwide survey of adults the number one reported fear was fear of communication (Bruskin

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