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Psi Beta’s 2019-2020 National Research Project
NEW! (March 9, 2020): Data and support files are now available for downloading and analyses. Please look immediately below for the download links.
BACKGROUND ? This research project supports the research component of Psi Beta’s mission:?Professional development of students through engagement in research. This year’s topic is interpersonal communication and several measures of workplace skills self-efficacy.
Overview of Topic ? This study focuses primarily on aspects of interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal communication competence is important for interacting with others at social gatherings and business networking events. It is the first step in making acquaintances and forming friendships. Employers expect college graduates, especially those holding a bachelor’s degree in psychology, to interact well with others in a variety of settings. APA’s Guidelines specify the ability to interact effectively with others (Outcome 4.3). Moreover, the APA’s Skillful Psychology Student includes employers’ expectations that psychology graduates will have strong active listening and conversational abilities in both informal and professional environments. Interpersonal communication consists of a set of smaller skills, some of which are being measured in this study (e.g., initiation, self-disclosure, empathy, social relaxation, alter-centrism, and interaction management, and conversational self-efficacy).
In addition to interpersonal communication, this study also includes measures of four employable skills: communication (writing, speaking, reading, listening), analytic inquiry (research, information literacy), collaboration (working in groups, leadership), and professional development (self-management, technology).
Measures
- Subscales drawn from the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ) (Buhrmester, Furman, Wittenberg, & Reis, 1988) include Initiation (8 items), Disclosure (8 items).
- Subscales are drawn from the Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS) (Rubin & Martin, 1991): Self-disclosure (3 items), Empathy (3 items), Social Relaxation (3 items), Alter-centrism (3 items), and Interaction Management (3 items).
- Subscales are drawn from the Interpersonal Communication Skills Instrument (unpublished, Irvine Valley College Psychology Department, 2018): Efficacy for Initiating Conversations (9 items), and Efficacy for Facilitating Balanced Two-way Conversations (6 items).
- The entire Employable Skills Self-Efficacy Survey (Ciarocco & Strohmetz, 2018) which include these scales: Communication, Analytical Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development.
- Demographics: sex, ethnicity, year in college, first-generation college student status, college units earned, number and type of psychology courses completed, co-curricular involvement
Hypotheses ? there are many possible hypotheses that can be tested. Below are just a few examples:
- Compared to males, females will have a higher mean score on communication scales designed to measure empathy.
- There will be a significant correlation between measures of Social Relationships and Efficacy for Initiating Conversations.
- Participants who have completed more psychology courses will score higher on the measure of Analytic Inquiry.
- Participants with higher levels of co-curricular involvement will score higher on Collaboration.
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Institutional Review Board
- Approval from Irvine Valley College ? click here NOTE: Irvine Valley College’s IRB is registered with the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) as Institutional Review Board (IRB # IRB00009084)
Timeline
- Data gathering begins ? September 24, 2019
- Data gathering ends ? February 28, 2020
- Data become available for analyses and write up ?
Early ? January 6, 2020
Final? ? March 4, 2020 (the final download will include data from the early download AND data gathered between January 6 and February 28, 2020)
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