THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Online ISSN : 1348-6276
Print ISSN : 0387-7973
ISSN-L : 0387-7973
A study of interpersonal competence
Construction of nonverbal skill scale and social skill scale
MINORU WADA
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1991 Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 49-59

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The purpose of this study is to construct nonverbal skill scale and social skill scale as subconcepts of interpersonal competence. Data were collected from university students (68 males and 174 females). From the factor analysis of nonverbal skill items, two factors were extracted: nonverbal expressionless-ness and control, and nonverbal sensitivity. From the factor analysis of social skill items, three factors were extracted: maintenance of intimate relationships, initiation of new relationships, and self-assertiveness. Validity of these scales were confirmed by exsisting similar scales (affective communication test and self-monitoring) and some other variables (the number of siblings, the number of friends, lonliness and the change of lonliness, and exsistence of the boy/girl friend).
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