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Desire for control and communication-related personality variables
Peter D MacIntyre1, Leslie A Donovan
1University College of Cape Breton, P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, NS Canada B1P 6L2. peter_macintyre@uccb.ca
Psychological Reports
|May 25, 2004
Abstract:
In a sample of 95 university students, scores on a measure of desire for control correlated .37 with willingness to communicate, supporting the notion of control as a motive for communication and also correlated .43 with self-perceived communication competence but not with communication apprehension.