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dc.contributor.authorVanDeventer, Karri C.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T02:23:31Z
dc.date.available2015-12-08T02:23:31Z
dc.date.issued2002-12
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/6274
dc.descriptionThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002en_US
dc.description.abstractThis exploratory study examined individuals' lived experience with communication apprehension (CA). CA has been explored extensively over the past 35 years by researchers seeking psychological explanations for communication phenomenon and employing the premise that CA exists as a "trait-like" characteristic of personality or as a relatively permanent behavioral disposition. Grounded in a constructionist epistemology, this study presumes that meaning is created, maintained, and transformed through communication with others. From this perspective, CA is an individual's evaluation of anticipated or occurring communication events, based upon his/her prior experiences interacting with others in specific situations. Though CA researchers acknowledge this situational basis of communication apprehension, it has been largely overlooked in past research given the reliance on the "trait-like" perspective. To gain insight into people's actual experiences when filling out the PRCA-24, this research utilizes in-depth conversational interviews to examine the situational specificity of the most popular CA measurement instrument, the Personal Record of Communication Apprehension-24 (PRCA-24).en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.titleCommunication apprehension: a narrative analysis of the PRCA-24en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemsen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Communicationen_US
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