Communicative Adaptability Scale: Evaluating Its Use as an ‘Other-Report’ Measure

Instructor Privacy Management in the Classroom: Exploring Instructors’ Ineffective Communication and Student Communication Satisfaction

“…In turn, consequences of instructors' inappropriate communication include decreases in attendance (Rocca, 2004), liking for instructor and course (Wanzer & McCroskey, 1998), and classroom involvement (Myers, Edwards, Wahl, & Martin, 2007). Overall, inappropriate conversations represent interpersonal incompetence (Hullman, 2007) and students, as reluctant confidants, may perceive an instructor's inappropriate conversations as violating boundaries in the classroom and, in turn, creating privacy turbulence.…”

“…These incompetent behaviors can be interpreted as misbehaviors and, therefore, inappropriate. Hullman (2007) included messages that were in bad taste, embarrassing, uncomfortable, and improper as examples of inappropriate conversations.…”

“…For this study, we examined inappropriate conversations and amount of disclosure as two components of instructors' ineffective communication in the classroom. Inappropriate conversations reflect statements made by instructors that reveal (a) anger, (b) a poor choice of humor, (c) use of vulgar language, and (d) use of verbal aggression (Hullman, 2007). Amount of disclosure is marked by frequency of disclosure.…”

Exploring the Role of Communication Competence in Abusive Supervision

“…This begs the question, how do prospective employers know that an applicant for a supervisory position actually practices high communicative adaptability? Hullman (2007) argued that accurate measurement of communication competence entails both self-assessment and observer-based assessment. Therefore, prospective employers should utilize both modes of assessment in the applicant screening process.…”

4. Epistemological approaches to communication competence

“…A multiple groups CFA can look for error bias within a measure across various groups, which is clearly important for communication competence researchers who are conducting studies with large, diverse samples. Although CFAs are becoming more commonplace when examining various measures of communication competence (Bakke 2010;Ford et al 2012;Hullman 2007;Huntley et al 2012;Kelly et al 2010;Large, Giménez, and McCarthy 2009;Wheeless and BerrymanFink 1985), there are still relatively few examining some of the older measures of communication competence (especially those with multi-factors). However, there are some psychometricians that argue for a less rigid use of CFA especially for measures that have a history of highly reliable factor structures (McCrae et al 1996).…”