Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and ...group/organizational communication areas, and highlights work in newer subdisciplines in communication, including intercultural, family, and health. It also includes measures from outside the communication discipline that have been employed in communication research.
The measures profiled here are "the best of the best" from the early 1990s through today. They are models for future scale development as well as tools for the trade, and they constitute the main tools that researchers can use for self-administered measurement of people's attitudes, conceptions of themselves, and perceptions of others. The focus is on up-to-date measures and the most recent scales and indexes used to assess communication variables.
Providing suggestions for measurement of concepts of interest to researchers; inspiring students to consider research directions not considered previously; and supplying models for scale developers to follow in terms of the work necessary to produce a valid and reliable measurement instrument in the discipline, the authors of this key resource have developed a significant contribution toward improving measurement and providing measures for better science.
Part I
Measurement Trends and Issues
Measurement in Family Communication – Elizabeth E. Graham & Joseph P. Mazer
Measurement in Organizational and Group Communication – David R. Seibold
Measurement in Health Communication – Nichole Egbert & Rebecca B. Rubin
Measurement in Instructional Communication – Rebecca B. Rubin
Measurement in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication – David R. Seibold, Rebecca B. Rubin, & Alan M. Rubin
Measurement in Interpersonal Communication -- Elizabeth E. Graham & Scott Titsworth
Measurement in Mass Communication – Elizabeth M. Perse
Part II
Measure Profiles
Affectionate Communication Index
Attachment Style Measure
Aukland Individualism and Collectivism Scale
Child-Parent Communication Apprehension
Cognitive Elaboration Scale
Communication Functions Questionnaire
Communicative Response to Romantic Jealousy Scale
Family Communication Standards Instrument
Group Development Questionnaire
Humor Orientation Scale
Individuals’ Criteria for Telling Family Secrets
Intercultural Development Inventory
Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale
Interpersonal Dominance Instrument
Learner Empowerment
Listening Styles Profile
Marital Opinion Questionnaire
Measure of Source Credibility
Medical Communication Competence Scale
Normative Message Processing Scale
Organizational Assimilation Index
Organizational Dissent Scale
Organizational Listening Survey
Organizational Reputation Scale
Organizational Temporality Scale
Organizational-Public Relationship Scale
Patient Self-Advocacy Scale
Perceived Message Sensation Value Scale
Perceived Power Measure
Perceived Teacher Confirmation Scale
Perceptions of Television Reality
Personal Report of Marital Virtues Scale
Presence Questionnaire
Reactance Restoration Scale
Relational Distance Index
Relational Maintenance Strategy Measure
Relational Uncertainty Measure
Reticence Scale
Revised Family Communication Pattern Instrument
Revised learning Indicators Scale
Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale
Sad Film Scale
Self-Assessment Manikin
Self-Construal Scales
Sexual Harassment Proclivity Index
Small Group Relational Satisfaction Scale
Small Group Socialization Scale
Social Presence Scale
Socio-Communicative Style
Student Motives to Communicate Scale
Teacher Misbehaviors Scale
Television Addiction Scale
Television Mediation Scale
Third Person Effect
Topic Avoidance
Willingness to Censor Survey
Part III
Measures Imported from Related Disciplines – Alan M. Rubin
Aggression, Hostility, and Anger
Anxiety
Locus of Control
Loneliness
Need for Cognition
Personality Traits
Self-Esteem
Sensation Seeking
Shyness and Sociability
Social Desirability
Author Index
Subject Index
Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975) is Professor Emerita at Kent State University (Ohio, USA), having served as Director of the KSU Communication Research Center and Graduate Coordinator of the School of Communication Studies. Her areas of expertise include interpersonal relationship development, communication competence assessment, instructional communication, and the interface of personal and mediated communication. Besides having written or edited several books and chapters—including Volume I of Communication Research Measures: A Sourcebook--and serving recently as the Educational Communication Area Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Communication, Becky’s research has been published in many communication journals, placing her as one of the most prolific researchers in the discipline.
Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University (Ohio, USA). He has studied the uses and effects of the media, including news and entertainment, personal and mediated communication, and newer communication technologies. In addition to books and chapters, he has published in such journals as the Journal of Communication (JOC), the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (JOBEM), Human Communication Research , and Communication Research. He is past editor of the JOC and JOBEM, and has served on numerous editorial boards and as a consultant to media, industry, and education. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association.
Elizabeth E. Graham (Ph.D. Kent State University, 1987) is a professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University (USA). She teaches courses in interpersonal communication, research methods, and statistics on the undergraduate and graduate level. Her research interests include communication in families experiencing transition, change, and reconfiguration. In addition to contributing to the first volume of the Research Measures: A Sourcebook, her research has been published in Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Research Reports, and Communication Reports . She also serves on several editorial boards. Until recently, Beth was the University Ombuds at Ohio University.
Elizabeth M. Perse (Ph.D., Kent State University, 1987) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware, Newark (USA). She is currently researching and teaching mass communication theory and the uses of newer communication technologies. She has been identified as a prolific researcher in Communication, having published one scholarly book, two textbooks, and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. Her research has been published in such journals as Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Quarterly, Communication Research Reports, Journalism Quarterly, and Health Communication. Betsy serves on several editorial boards and is a past Chair of the Mass Communication Division of NCA.
David R. Seibold (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1975) is Professor of Communication (Division of Social Sciences), and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Management Practice (College of Engineering), at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). Author of more than 100 publications on organizational communication, group processes, and interpersonal influence, his scholarship has appeared in all of the major journals in communication and in venues across nearly a half-dozen disciplines. He has received numerous research and teaching awards, and in 2006 was elected a Distinguished Scholar in the National Communication Association. A former chair of interpersonal, group and organizational communication divisions in the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association, Dave also is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and serves on the boards of many other journals. He also has consulted widely with many more than 75 business, government, and health organizations.
Dieser Band nutzt die durch Elinor Ostrom bekannt gewordene Theorie der Commons – also der Gemeingüter – für eine ganzheitliche Analyse des öffentlichen Rundfunks. Die Autorin argumentiert, dass ...gesellschaftliche Teilhabe, kollaborative Produktion und offener Zugang zu Inhalten, sowie Abstand zu Markt und Staat, zentral sind für die Legitimation dieser Medienorganisation im digitalen Zeitalter. Sie bespricht drei gegensätzliche Zugänge zur Theorie der Commons und die damit verbundenen «konzeptionellen Stolpersteine», dann schlägt sie 18 Merkmale vor, um Medienorganisationen als «Media Commons» zu analysieren. Anhand einer Dokumentenanalyse untersucht sie 30 öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen – «übliche Verdächtige» wie ARD, BBC, ORF und SRG, aber auch weniger bekannte Organisationen. Die Autorin kommt zu dem Schluss, dass öffentliche Rundfunkorganisationen zwar einige, aber längst nicht alle Merkmale eines «Media Commons» aufweisen und unterschiedlich nachhaltig funktionieren. This volume uses the theory of the commons, which is often associated with Elinor Ostrom, to conduct a holistic analysis of public service broadcasting. The author argues that social participation, collaborative production and open access to content, as well as distance to markets and the state, are central to the legitimacy of this form of media organisation in the digital age. She discusses three opposing approaches to the theory of the commons and related ‘conceptual stumbling blocks’, and suggests 18 characteristics in order to analyse media organisations as ‘media commons’. By means of a document analysis, she examines 30 public service broadcasting organisations—including ‘the usual suspects’, like ARD, the BBC, ORF or SRG, but also lesser known organisations. She concludes that public service broadcasters feature some, but by no means all, of the characteristics of ‘media commons’ and that they operate with varying degrees of sustainability.
Zusammenfassung Um auch die unbeabsichtigten Folgen ihrer Politik zu ermitteln, unternehmen Regierungen umfassende Gesetzesfolgenabschätzungen. Immer häufiger lassen sie sich dabei von unabhängigen ...Expertengremien kontrollieren. Doch: Wie erzielen diese Gremien Einfluss? Und welche Rolle spielen sie als Politikberater für Bürokratieabbau und bessere Rechtsetzung? Das Buch eröffnet neue Einblicke in die Entwicklungshistorie und Handlungsrealität der drei erfahrensten Normenkontrollräte in Europa. Vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher Verwaltungskulturen werden die Ratstypen „Wachhund“, „Torwächter“ und „Kritischer Freund“ herausgearbeitet. Die Ergebnisse schärfen die politische und wissenschaftliche Debatte um die Leistungsfähigkeit von Normenkontrollräten. Abstract In order to calculate the unintended consequences of their policies, governments conduct comprehensive assessments of the impact of legislation. In doing so, they have independent expert committees monitor them on an increasingly frequent basis. However, in what ways do these committees have an influence in this respect? And what role do they play as policy advisors in terms of dismantling bureaucracy and better legislation? This book provides new insights into the history of the development of the three most experienced supervisory bodies in Europe and the reality of how they conduct themselves. Against the backdrop of various administrative cultures, the book presents the following types of supervisory committees in detail: ‘watchdog’, ‘gatekeeper’ and ‘critical friend’. Its findings intensify the political and academic debate on the performance and efficiency of supervisory bodies.
Sixty-year excavation (1953 to 2013) of Župna Cerkev Cemetery in Kranj unearthed almost 3000 graves. The monograph introduces 1048 graves found between 1972 and 2010. The excavations were initially ...led by Andrej Valič, the curator of the Gorenjski muzej (1972 and 73, 862 graves). Milan Sagadin from ZVKD Kranj continued the dig from 1984 to 2001 (163 graves), followed by Draško Josipovič (Megalan Skupina, d. o. o., 2003 to 2010), who excavated 23 more graves. An extensive chapter presents the artefacts of Župna Cerkev Cemetery with no data about their location.The varied documentation, which has changed over the years, is the basis for the publication of all available data on the graves and artefacts kept by the Gorenjski muzej in Kranj. The introduction, a study on the nature of the data, comments on possible inconsistencies between the various types of documentation. Primarily it deals with the question of reliability of individual grave good assemblages, which is the basis for all further analysis.The discussed group of graves originates mainly from the northern exterior of the church and from the interior of the present-day church, that is, from the place where graves intertwined with the remains of older church and non-church buildings. Their building development and changing usability will be impossible to explain without good knowledge of the cemetery.
The research used different indicators to objectively evaluate the quality of residential environment in Ljubljana at the outset of the second decade of the 21st century. Residential environment was ...defined as the characteristics of the dwelling and its immediate and wider surroundings that are pertinent for satisfying general human needs and for performing basic human functions. The elements of the residential environment were arranged into seven groups: dwelling characteristics, safety, aesthetics, accessibility to urban amenities, environmental strain, social environment, and transportation conditions. The quality of the residential environment as a whole was measured accurately to the building using the method of summing the unweighted standardised indicators. We concluded that the quality of the residential environment in Ljubljana differs significantly between areas. The study results can be useful to city authorities and spatial planners as a support in the decision-making for management as well as planning purposes~for example, as the basis for improving the residential environment or for determining the appropriate locations for residential construction.
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