This portion of my blog required the student to have completed three assessments, summarize the results, and compare them to the results of others concerning me: communication anxiety inventory, verbal aggressiveness scale, listening styles profile. I had three people take the test for me instead of two: my two closest friends – 1 male and 1 female, and a colleague. We all agreed on listening styles. What was surprising was that my best friends scored me as significant on the verbal aggressiveness and the colleague’s result was moderate along with mine. I am somewhat disturbed that my friends feel that I verbally attack people. To be good communicators we must first know ourselves O’Hair & Wiemann, 2009). We must understand that our actions are directly affected by our self-perceptions (p. 57).
O’Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2009). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Jayme,
ReplyDeleteI think verbal aggressiveness has become prevalent in communication today. It has gotten to the point we are not aware of our own aggressive comments. We have become desensitized to rude and crude comments. It is common to hear numerous aggressive comments on a television program. It has become acceptable to be rude to someone else. I think learning about our own verbal aggression will help us to become better communicators across all aspects of our lives.
Meredith