The Relationship between Self- and Other-Perceptions of Communication Competence and Friendship Quality |
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| Authors: | Analisa Arroyo Chris Segrin |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Communication , University of Arizona aarroyo@email.arizona.edu;3. Department of Communication , University of Arizona |
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| Abstract: | This study explored dyadic effects of communication competence, assessed through self-perceptions and other-perceptions, on relationship quality in same-sex platonic friendships. Undergraduate students recruited a same-sex platonic friend to participate in this study along with them. Participants (N = 310; dyads = 155) completed an online questionnaire assessing their own and their partner's communication competence as well as their own relationship satisfaction and commitment. Results from actor-partner interdependence model analyses revealed both actor and partner effects for self-perceptions and other-perceptions of communication competence on relationship satisfaction and commitment. Additionally, partners’ other-perceptions of communication competence moderated the relationship between actors’ other-perceptions of communication competence and relationship commitment. |
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| Keywords: | Commitment Communication Competence Friends Perceptions Satisfaction |
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