Abstract

This study investigated connections between listening preferences and patterns of communicator style and apprehension. An initial discriminant analysis was conducted to test whether six categories of listening styles are systematically discriminated by communicator style, communication apprehension, and receiver apprehension. There was one significant discriminant function, whose interpretation was somewhat questionable. Subsequently, a canonical correlation was conducted to test if four interval level listening preferences are systematically related to communicator style, communication apprehension, and receiver apprehension. The results were highly significant and identified three patterns of association between the set of listening preferences and the set of communicator style and apprehension variables. 1. High people-orientation in listening is systematically associated with lower receiver apprehension and dyadic communication apprehension and with a more relationally oriented communication style that attends to and affirms the other person. 2. The combination of high content- and action-orientations is associated with a precise and attentive style of arguing the issues that leaves a strong impression on other people. 3. The configuration of high time- and action-orientations along with a lack of content-orientation is associated with higher receiver apprehension but lower dyadic communication apprehension, and also with a dramatic, animated and forceful style that asserts one's goals/concerns and tends to dominate the other person.

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