Receptivity of Others in a Group

What it measures

A three-item likert scale designed to measure how much a person believes that a group of people he/she has interacted with listened to and were open to his/her ideas.

Response format

7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)

Scale items

• The group was willing to listen to me.
• The group was unresponsive to my ideas. (r)
• The group was open to my ideas.

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Internal consistency (alpha = .83) was reported in the primary study. Convergent and discriminant validity evidence was provided by the original authors.

Citation

Burgoon, Judee K. and Jerold L. Hale (1987), "Validation and Measurement of the Fundamental Themes of Relational Communication," Communication Monographs, 54 (March), 19-41.

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